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There is a growing demand for ultra low power and ultra low complexity devices for applications which require maintenance-free and battery-less operation. One way to serve such applications is through backscatter devices, which communicate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Rohit Singh , Anil Kumar Yerrapragada , Radha Krishna Ganti

Although the idea of using wireless links for covering large areas is not new, the advent of LPWANs has recently started changing the game. Simple, robust, narrowband modulation schemes permit the implementation of low-cost radio devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Luca Beltramelli , Aamir Mahmood , Patrik Österberg , Mikael Gidlund , Paolo Ferrari , Emiliano Sisinni

We aims to provide an interpretation of the the design background, motivation, and key innovations of FreeRider. The technique utilized by FreeRider enables tags to transform codewords present in commodity signals into another valid ones…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Chenming Zhang

The low-power radio technologies open up many opportunities to facilitate Internet-of-Things (IoT) into our daily life, while their minimalist design also makes IoT devices vulnerable to many active attacks. Recent advances use an antenna…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhiqing Luo , Wei Wang , Qianyi Huang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

Long-range low-power wireless communications, such as LoRa, are used in many IoT and environmental monitoring applications. They typically increase the communication range to several kilometers, at the cost of reducing the bitrate to a few…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Nancy El Rachkidy , Alexandre Guitton , Megumi Kaneko

Precise and energy-efficient localization is a critical requirement in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly in large-scale deployments such as asset tagging, agriculture, and smart cities, where long battery life and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hasan Albinsaid , Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Accurate localization of a large number of objects over a wide area is one of the keys to the pervasive interaction with the Internet of Things. This paper presents Hawkeye, a new mmWave backscatter that, for the first time, offers over (i)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Kang Min Bae , Hankyeol Moon , Sung-Min Sohn , Song Min Kim

Green low power networking with the least requirement of dedicated radio resources is need of the hour which has led to the upsurge of backscatter communication (BSC) technology. However, this inherent potential of BSC is challenged by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Deepak Mishra , Erik G. Larsson

Long range radio communication is preferred in many IoT deployments as it avoids the complexity of multi-hop wireless networks. LoRa is a popular, energy-efficient wireless modulation but its networking substrate LoRaWAN introduces severe…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 José Álamos , Peter Kietzmann , Thomas Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are gaining momentum in various applications of logistics, inventory, etc. A generic problem in such systems is to ensure that the RFID readers can reliably read a set of RFID tags, such that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Rasmus Jacobsen , Karsten Fyhn Nielsen , Petar Popovski , Torben Larsen

LoRa is the proprietary physical layer (PHY) of LoRaWAN, which is a popular Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol enabling low-power devices to communicate over long ranges. A number of reverse engineering attempts have been published in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 Joachim Tapparel , Orion Afisiadis , Paul Mayoraz , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Anran Wang , Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

We consider a multipoint-to-point network in which sensors periodically send measurements to a gateway. The system uses Long Range (LoRa) communications in a frequency band with duty-cycle limits. Our aim is to enhance the reliability of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Siddhartha Borkotoky , Christian Bettstetter , Udo Schilcher , Christian Raffelsberger

For large-scale Internet of Things (IoT), backscatter communication is a promising technology to reduce power consumption and simplify deployment. However, backscatter communication lacks stability, along with limited communication range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Gang Huang , Panlong Yang , Xin He , Yubo Yan , Hao Zhou , Xiangyang Li , Pengjun Wan

The Ambient IoT (A-IoT) will introduce trillions of connections and enable low-cost battery-less devices. The A-IoT nodes can achieve low cost ($\sim\$ 0.1$ like RFID tag), sub-1mW average power consumption, $\leq 10$ kbps data rates,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Yuxiao Zhao , Zhen Shen , Shiyu Li , Jing Feng , Hao Min

Paper-based interactive RF devices have opened new possibilities for wireless sensing, yet they are typically constrained by short operational ranges. This paper introduces RadioGami, a method for creating long-range, batteryless RF sensing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Imran Fahad , Danny Scott , Azizul Zahid , Matthew Bringle , Srinayana Patil , Ella Bevins , Carmen Palileo , Sai Swaminathan

Computational RFID (CRFID) devices are emerging platforms that can enable perennial computation and sensing by eliminating the need for batteries. Although much research has been devoted to improving upstream (CRFID to RFID reader)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jethro Tan , Przemysław Pawełczak , Aaron Parks , Joshua R. Smith

We demonstrate the world's first hybrid radio platform which combines the strengths of active radio (long range and robustness to interference) and Computational RFIDs (low power consumption). We evaluate the Wireless Identification and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ivar in 't Veen , Qingzhi Liu , Przemysław Pawełczak , Aaron Parks , Joshua R. Smith

Inter-connected sensors and actuators have scaled down to small embedded devices such as wearables, and at the same time meet a massive deployment at the Internet edge: the Internet of Things (IoT). Many of these IoT devices run on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Sebastian Meiling , Thomas C. Schmidt

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is rapidly growing in wireless technology, aiming to connect vast numbers of devices to gather and distribute vital information. Despite individual devices having low energy consumption, the cumulative demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shayan Zargari , Azar Hakimi , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref