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Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) offers low-cost and low-power connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT), where a backscatter tag (BT) modulates incident signals transmitted by an ambient radio frequency (RF) source and reflects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yuxin Li , Guangyue Lu , Yinghui Ye , Liqin Shi , Daniel Benevides da Costa

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

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

Ambient backscatter communication technology (AmBC) and a novel device category called zero-energy devices (ZED) have recently emerged as potential components for the forthcoming 6th generation (6G) networks. A ZED communicates with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Papis Ndiaye , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman Hassan , Jingyi Liao , Xiyu Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jantti

Supply chain management is aimed to keep going long-term performance of the supply chain and minimize the costs. Backscatter technology provides a more efficient way of being able to identify items and real-time monitoring. Among the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-21 Yun-Hao Liu , Tao Liu , Yimeng Huang , Han Ding , Wei Xi , Wei Gong

Cognitive backscattering, an integration of cognitive radio and backsatter modulation, is emerging as a potential candidate for green Internet of Things (IoT). In cognitive backscatter systems, the backscatter device (BD) shares not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-16 Huayan Guo , Qianqian Zhang , Dong Li , Ying-Chang Liang

To improve the data rate in differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) based ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) system, we propose a new AmBC system based on code index modulation (CIM), referred to as CIM-DCSK-AmBC system. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruipeng Yang , Yi Fang , Pingping Chen , Huan Ma

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

Ambient backscatter communications (AmBC), where a backscatter transmitter (BT) modulates and reflects ambient signals to a backscatter receiver (BR), have been deemed a low-power communication technology for the Internet of Things.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yinghui Ye , Ying Li , Xiaoli Chu , Gan Zheng , Sumei Sun

Ambient backscatter communications (AmBC) are a promising technology for addressing the energy consumption challenge in wireless communications through the reflection or absorption of surrounding radio frequency (RF) signals. However, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Shuaijun Ma , Peng Wei , Sa Xiao , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Wei Xiang

Ambient backscatter communication is a newly emerged paradigm, which utilizes the ambient radio frequency (RF) signal as the carrier to reduce the system battery requirement, and is regarded as a promising solution for enabling large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Qin Tao , Caijun Zhong , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

Ambient backscatter communication technology has been introduced recently, and is then quickly becoming a promising choice for self-sustainable communication systems as an external power supply or a dedicated carrier emitter is not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Dong In Kim , Yong Xiao , Zhu Han

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ambient Internet of Things (AIoT) devices to achieve ultra-low-power, low-cost, and massive connectivity. Most existing AmBC studies assume ideal synchronization between the backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yuxin Li , Guangyue Lu , Yinghui Ye , Zehui Xiong , Liqin Shi

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

In the present contribution, we propose a novel opportunistic ambient backscatter communication (ABC) framework for radio frequency (RF)-powered cognitive radio (CR) networks. This framework considers opportunistic spectrum sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Rajalekshmi Kishore , Sanjeev Gurugopinath , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sami Muhaidat , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yifan Zhang , Yu Bai , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

In bi-static Ambient Backscatter Communications (AmBC) systems, the direct path from the ambient source to the receiver can be several orders of magnitude stronger than the scattered path modulated by the AmBC device. Because of the large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Menta , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key technology of next generation wireless communication. Backscatter communication (BackCom) plays an important role for internet of things (IoT). Then the integration of ISAC with BackCom…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Zongyao Zhao , Tiankuo Wei , Zhenyu Liu , Xinke Tang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yuhan Dong

In ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems, passive tags connect to a reader by reflecting an ambient radio frequency (RF) signal. However, the reader may not know the channel states and RF source parameters. The traditional energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 S. Zargari , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref