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The era of ubiquitous, affordable wireless connectivity has opened doors to countless practical applications. In this context, ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) stands out, utilizing passive tags to establish connections with readers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 S. Zargari , A. Hakimi , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has emerged as a highly attractive paradigm for energy-efficient communication. Full-duplex multi-tag AmBC systems provide the scalability and efficient spectrum utilization essential for next…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Saeed Abdallah , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Bassel Al Homssi , Mohamed Saad , Abdulmalik Alwarafy

Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency waves, however such systems have limitations and suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Nada Bel-Haj-Maati , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Nadine Malhouroux , Marco Di Renzo

Existing studies about ambient backscatter communication mostly assume flat-fading channels. However, frequency-selective channels widely exist in many practical scenarios. Therefore, this paper investigates ambient backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Chong Zhang , Yao Qin , Gongpu Wang , Ruisi He , Rongfei Fan

We study a novel communication mechanism, ambient backscatter, that utilizes radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted from an ambient source as both energy supply and information carrier to enable communications between low-power devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jing Qian , Feifei Gao , Gongpu Wang , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

In ambient backscatter communication (AmBC), strong direct interference from the ambient source poses a major challenge to reliable symbol detection. Although previous studies have shown that employing a low-noise amplifier (LNA) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xinyi Wang , Yuxin Li , Yinghui Ye , Gongpu Wang , Guangyue Lu

We consider an ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) system aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The optimization of the IRS to assist AmBC is extremely difficult when there is no prior channel knowledge, for which no design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou

The success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm relies on, among other things, developing energy-efficient communication techniques that can enable information exchange among billions of battery-operated IoT devices. With its technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Future wireless networks targeted for improving spectral and energy efficiency, are expected to simultaneously provide sensing functionality and support low-power communications. This paper proposes a novel net-zero integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

Backscatter communication (BC) is a promising technique for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) owing to its low complexity, low cost, and potential for energy-efficient operation in sensor networks. There are several network infrastructure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ahmet Kaplan , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

In this letter, we study the ambient backscatter communication systems over frequency-selective channels. Specifically, we propose an interference-free transceiver design to facilitate signal detection at the reader. Our design utilizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Chong Zhang , Gongpu Wang , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Feifei Gao , George K. Karagiannidis

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables battery-free connectivity by letting passive tags modulate existing RF signals, but reliable detection of multiple tags is challenging due to strong direct link interference, very weak…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Talha Akyildiz , Hessam Mahdavifar

Ambient backscatter (AB) communication is an emerging wireless communication technology that enables wireless devices (WDs) to communicate without requiring active radio transmission. In an AB communication system, a WD switches between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Xiaokang Wen , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Lina Yuan , Juan Wang

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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) can substantially improve spectral, hardware, and energy efficiency by unifying radar sensing and data communications. In wideband and scattering-rich environments, clutter often dominates weak…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Rang Liu , Peishi Li , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Long Term Evolution (LTE) signal is ubiquitously present in electromagnetic (EM) background environment, which make it an attractive signal source for the ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). In this paper, we propose a system, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Jingyi Liao , Xiyu Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jantti , Phan-Huy Dinh-Thuy

The performance of cooperative ambient backscatter communications (CABC) can be enhanced by employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to assist backscatter transmitters. Since the RIS power consumption is a non-negligible issue, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Hui Ma , Haijun Zhang , Ning Zhang , Jianquan Wang , Ning Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

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

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has become an integral part of ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to its energy-harvesting capabilities and ultra-low-power consumption. However, the open wireless environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yifan Zhang , Yongchao Dang , Masoud Kaveh , Zheng Yan , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han