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Considering the exponential growth of Internet-of-Things devices and the goals toward sustainable networks, the complexity should be focused on the infrastructure side. For a massive number of passive devices, backscatter communication (BC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is featured with low-power communications among a massive number of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, e.g., sensors and actuators. To cope with the demand, wireless-powered cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Ekram Hossain , Ping Wang

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. The key challenge in the development of AmBC is the very weak RF signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ross Murch

Ambient backscatter has been introduced with a wide range of applications for low power wireless communications. In this article, we propose an optimal and low-complexity dynamic spectrum access framework for RF-powered ambient backscatter…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

This letter introduces a novel wireless-powered backscatter communication system which allows sensors to utilize RF signals transmitted from a dedicated RF energy source to transmit data. In the proposed system, when the RF energy source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

In this work, we consider a backscatter communication system wherein multiple asynchronous sources (tags) exploit the reverberation generated by a nearby radar transmitter as an ambient carrier to deliver a message to a common destination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Jeremy Johnston , Marco Lops , Xiaodong Wang

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks raises significant generality and scalability challenges due to energy consumption, deployment complexity, and environmental impact.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Boxuan Xie , Yifan Zhang , Kalle Koskinen , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Riku Jäntti

We introduce a novel system setup where a backscatter device operates in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). In particular, we study the bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) system assisted by an IRS. The phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xiaolun Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato

We introduce inter-technology backscatter, a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Bryce Kellogg , Shyamnath Gollakota , Joshua R. Smith

As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances by leaps and bounds, a multitude of devices are becoming interconnected, marking the onset of an era where all things are connected. While this growth opens up opportunities for novel products and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Haiyang Ding , Gongpu Wang , Chintha Tellambura

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

This article introduces a novel lightweight framework using ambient backscattering communications to counter eavesdroppers. In particular, our framework divides an original message into two parts: (i) the active-transmit message transmitted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Nam H. Chu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Tao Shu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Khoa T. Phan

Backscatter Communication (BackCom) nodes harvest energy from and modulate information over external carriers. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) adapts phase shift response to alter channel strength in specific directions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yang Zhao , Bruno Clerckx

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

Ambient Internet of Things networks use low-cost, low-power backscatter tags in various industry applications. By exploiting those tags, we introduce the integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system, featuring multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 S. Zargari , D. Galappaththige , C. Tellambura

Multiple-antenna backscatter is emerging as a promising approach to offer high communication performance for the data-intensive applications of ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). Although much has been understood about…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Zhiang Niu , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

As a key enabling technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G communication networks, millimeter wave (mmWave) backscatter has undergone noteworthy advancements and brought significant improvement to prevailing sensing and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Yang Zou , Jiaming Gu , Xiaolei Yang , Jia Zhang , Ziheng Mao

Ambient Backscatter Communication (AmBC) is an emerging communication technology that can enable green Internet-of-Things deployments. The widespread acceptance of this paradigm is limited by low Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Xiyu Wang , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Yohannes Menta , Riku Jäntti

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a pivotal wireless communication paradigm owing to its low-power and cost-effective characteristics. However, BC faces various challenges from its low signal detection rate to its security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zhao Li , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti