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Backscatter communication which enables wireless-powered backscatter devices (BDs) to transmit information by reflecting incident signals, is an energy- and cost-efficient communication technology for Internet-of-Things. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Gang Yang , Rao Dai , Ying-Chang Liang

Recently, a novel ultra-low power indoor wireless positioning system has been proposed. In this system, Zero-Energy-Devices (ZED) beacons are deployed in Indoor environments, and located on a map with unique broadcast identifiers. They…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Shanglin Yang , Jean-Marie Gorce , Muhammad Jehangir Khan , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Guillaume Villemaud

Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems provide ubiquitous coverage for mobile communications, which makes it a promising candidate to be used as a signal source in the ambient backscatter communications. In this paper, we propose a system in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Kalle Ruttik , Xiyu Wang , Jingyi Liao , Riku Jantti , Phan-Huy Dinh-Thuy

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an essential topic in the sixth-generation (6G) communications aims to enhance communication performance or mitigate undesired transmission. However, the controllability of each reflecting element…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Jinqiu Zhao , Jia Ye Shuaishuai Guo , Zhiquan Bai , Di Zhou , Abeer Mohamed

With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On the one hand, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Romain Fara , Philippe Ratajczak , Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien De Rosny

Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wireless systems. However, this promise is fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haohao Zhang , Bowen Gu , Xianhua Yu , Hao Xie , Liejun Wang , Yongjun Xu , Xiaoming Tao , Haijun Zhang

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously serves a downlink communication user and senses the location of a target that may potentially serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted wide attention as an emerging application scenario for the sixth generation (6G) wireless communication system. In this paper, a novel three-dimensional (3D) non-stationary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Runruo Yang , Yang Wu , Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

Wirelessly powered backscatter communication (WPBC) has been identified as a promising technology for low-power communication systems, which can reap the benefits of energy beamforming to improve energy transfer efficiency. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Wenyuan Ma , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

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

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as a key technology for future wireless communications. In this paper, we consider a downlink monostatic ISAC system wherein the base station serves multiple communications users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tianyu Fang , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Atmospheric structure, represented by backscatter coefficients (BC) recovered from satellite LiDAR attenuated backscatter (ATB), provides a volumetric view of clouds, aerosols, and molecules, playing a critical role in human activities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tianchi Xu

Backscatter communications (BC) has emerged as a promising technology for providing low-powered transmissions in nextG (i.e., beyond 5G) wireless networks. The fundamental idea of BC is the possibility of communications among wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Asad Mahmood , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

The detector readout architecture introduced in this paper is intended for small to medium size physics experiments that have moderate bandwidth needs, and applications that require an ultimately low background radioactivity for the parts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-21 Denis Calvet

This paper investigates how to achieve integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on a cell-free radio access network (CF-RAN) architecture with a minimum footprint of communication resources. We propose a new passive sensing scheme.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Jingxuan Yu , Fan Zeng , Jiamin Li , Feiyang Liu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to be one of the major features of 6G wireless networks. In an ISAC system, communications and sensing functionalities are jointly performed using the same waveform, frequency band and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Homa Nikbakht , Husheng Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Continued progress towards energy-neutral Internet of Things (IoT) nodes expose the wireless communication link as the dominant energy bottleneck. While low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies achieve long-range communication with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Tijl Schepens , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

In the context of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), this paper presents an experimental investigation of the relationship between monostatic sensing and naturally bistatic communication channels in an indoor millimeter-wave…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Rizqi Hersyandika , Haoqiu Xiong , Sofie Pollin