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Backscatter wireless communication is an emerging technique widely used in low-cost and low-power wireless systems, especially in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Recently, the requirement of high data rates, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhu Han

RFID localization is considered the key enabler of automating the process of inventory tracking and management for high-performance logistic network. A practical and deployable RFID localization system needs to meet reliability, throughput,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Bo Liang , Purui Wang , Renjie Zhao , Heyu Guo , Pengyu Zhang , Junchen Guo , Shunmin Zhu , Hongqiang Harry Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Chenren Xu

LoRaWAN has emerged as an appealing technology to connect IoT devices but it functions without explicit coordination among transmitters, which can lead to many packet collisions as the network scales. State-of-the-art work proposes various…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Chenning Li , Xiuzhen Guo , Longfei Shangguan , Zhichao Cao , Kyle Jamieson

Backscatter communication holds potential for ubiquitous and low-cost connectivity among low-power IoT devices. To avoid interference between the carrier signal and the backscatter signal, recent works propose a frequency-shifting technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiuzhen Guo , Longfei Shangguan , Yuan He , Jia Zhang , Haotian Jiang , Awais Ahmad Siddiqi , Yunhao Liu

Backscatter communication is a hot candidate for future IoT systems. It offers the possibility for connectivity with tiny amounts of energy that can be easily obtained from energy harvesting. This is possible as backscatter devices do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Clemens Korn , Jörg Robert , Tobias Dräger

Almost all existing RFID authentication schemes (tag/reader) are vulnerable to relay attacks, because of their inability to estimate the distance to the tag. These attacks are very serious since it can be mounted without the notice of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-10 Eslam Gamal Ahmed , Eman Shaaban , Mohamed Hashem

The vision of battery-free communication has made backscatter a compelling technology for on-body wearable and implantable devices. Recent advances have facilitated the communication between backscatter tags and on-body smart devices. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zhiqing Luo , Wei Wang , Jiang Xiao , Qianyi Huang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

In this paper, we present an experimental setup to evaluate the performance of a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We focus on both the communication and sensing capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Tongyang Xu

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Reza Ghanaatian , Orion Afisiadis , Matthieu Cotting , Andreas Burg

Physical isolation from external networks - an airgap - aims to minimize exposure to remote attacks. Yet capable adversaries still achieve code execution on air-gapped systems, and prior work has shown that they can then wirelessly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paul Staat , Daniel Davidovich , Christof Paar

Ambient backscatter communication is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for the Internet of Things. In such a system, a tag sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated by an ambient…

Battery-free Internet of Things (BF-IoT) enabled by backscatter communication is a rapidly evolving technology offering advantages of low cost, ultra-low power consumption, and robustness. However, the practical deployment of BF-IoT is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Taorui Liu , Xu Liu , Zhiquan Xu , Houfeng Chen , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

The conventional assumption made in the design of communication systems is that the energy used to transfer information between a sender and a recipient cannot be reused for future communication tasks. A notable exception to this norm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Petar Popovski , Osvaldo Simeone

Ambient backscatter communications is an emerging paradigm and a key enabler for pervasive connectivity of low-powered wireless devices. It is primarily beneficial in the Internet of things (IoT) and the situations where computing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Furqan Jameel , Tapani Ristaniemi , Imran Khan , Byung Moo Lee

LoRa technology enables long-range communication with low-power consumption for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the urban and suburban environment. However, due to terrestrial structures in urban and suburban environments, the link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-01 Vageesh Anand Dambal , Sameer Mohadikar , Abhaykumar Kumbhar , Ismail Guvenc

We present the first wireless protocol that scales to hundreds of concurrent transmissions from backscatter devices. Our key innovation is a distributed coding mechanism that works below the noise floor, operates on backscatter devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Mehrdad Hessar , Ali Najafi , Shyamnath Gollakota

Long Range (LoRa) network is emerging as one of the most promising Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks, since it enables the energy-constraint devices distributed over wide areas to establish affordable connectivity. However, how to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Qihao Zhou , Kan Zheng , Lu Hou , Jinyu Xing , Rongtao Xu

The scale of wireless technologies penetration in our daily lives, primarily triggered by the Internet-of-things (IoT)-based smart cities, is beaconing the possibilities of novel localization and tracking techniques. Recently, low-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Mahnoor Anjum , Muhammad Abdullah Khan , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi , Mikael Gidlund

In various wireless systems, such as sensor RFID networks and body area networks with implantable devices, the transmitted signals are simultaneously used both for information transmission and for energy transfer. In order to satisfy the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mohammad Fouladgar , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks are making spectacular progress from design, standardisation, to commercialisation. At this time of fast-paced adoption, it is of utmost importance to analyse how well these technologies will scale as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Orestis Georgiou , Usman Raza