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In this paper, we propose a novel quantum backscatter communications (QBC) protocol, inspired by the quantum illumination (QI) concept. In the QBC paradigm, the transmitter generates entangled photon pair. The signal photon is transmitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Roberto Di Candia , Riku Jäntti , Ruifeng Duan , Jari Lietzén , Hany Khalifa , Kalle Ruttik

Backscatter communication is a burgeoning low-power communication technology that has been introduced into the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its excellent self-sustainability. However, conventional backscatter communication (BackCom)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Weilin Chen

This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with backscattering RFID tags. In this setup, an access point employs communication beams to serve communication users while leveraging a sensing beam to interrogate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Hao Luo , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Self-sustainable communications based on advanced energy harvesting technologies have been under rapid development, which facilitate autonomous operation and energy-efficient transmission. Recently, ambient backscattering that leverages…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Xiao Lu , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim , Ping Wang

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

This work focuses on the synergy of physical layer covert transmission and millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to improve the performance, and enable secure internet of things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Ziyang Cheng

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising candidate technology for 6G due to its improvement in spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal is a mainstream candidate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Lin Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Xu Chen , Zhiyong Feng

Backscatter communication (BackCom), which allows a backscatter node (BN) to communicate with the reader by modulating and reflecting the incident continuous wave from the reader, is considered as a promising solution to power the future…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jing Guo , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Prior works have explored multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms for the selection of optimal beams for millimeter-wave (mmW) communications between base station and mobile users. However, when the number of beams is large, the existing MAB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Akanksha Sneh , Shobha Sundar Ram , Sumit J Darak , Aakanksha Tewari

We investigate the reliability and security of the ambient backscatter (AmBC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where the source aims to communication with two NOMA users in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Xingwang Li , Mengle Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Lihua Li , Zhiguo Ding , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with two rate-limited helpers who observe the channel state sequence and the feedback sequence, respectively. Depending on the timing of compressing and using the state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yiqi Chen , Holger Boche , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The potential of Wi-Fi backscatter communications systems is immense, yet challenges such as signal instability and energy constraints impose performance limits. This paper introduces FlexScatter, a Wi-Fi backscatter system using a designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xin He , Jingwen Xie , Aohua Zhang , Weiwei Jiang , Yujun Zhu , Tad Matsumoto

This paper proposes a lightweight distributed learning method for transmission parameter selection in Long Range (LoRa) networks that can adapt to dynamic communication environments. In the proposed method, each LoRa End Device (ED) employs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ryotai Ariyoshi , Aohan Li , Mikio Hasegawa , Miao Pan , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Zhu Han

Edge-device co-inference refers to deploying well-trained artificial intelligent (AI) models at the network edge under the cooperation of devices and edge servers for providing ambient intelligent services. For enhancing the utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zeming Zhuang , Dingzhu Wen , Yuanming Shi , Guangxu Zhu , Sheng Wu , Dusit Niyato

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising paradigm for future wireless systems due to spectrum reuse, hardware sharing, and joint waveform design. In dynamic scenes, Doppler shifts degrade both sensing and communication,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Yuan Liu , Wen-Xuan Long , M. R. Bhavani Shankar , Marco Moretti , Rui Chen , Björn Ottersten

This paper proposes an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system based on affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) waveform. To this end, a metric set is designed according to not only the maximum tolerable delay/Doppler, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Yuanhan Ni , Peng Yuan , Qin Huang , Fan Liu , Zulin Wang

Spectrum sharing backscatter communication systems are among the most prominent technologies for ultralow power and spectrum efficient communications. In this paper, we propose an underlay spectrum sharing backscatter communication system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible light communication (VLC) backscatter has been proposed as a wireless access option for Internet of Things (IoT). However, the throughput of the state-of-the-art VLC backscatter is limited by simple single-carrier pulsed modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Hany Elgala

This paper addresses the problem of outage characterization of an ambient backscatter communication system with a pair of passive tag and reader. In particular, an exact expression for the effective channel distribution is derived. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Chintha Tellambura

As a key low-power communication technique, backscatter communication has received significant attention since the rising of the Internet of Things (IoT). We revisit the state-of-the-art backscatter system, RBLE [1]. It solves several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Bohan Lou