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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

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

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 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 communications (AmBackComs) have been recognized as a spectrum- and energy-efficient technology for Internet of Things, as it allows passive backscatter devices (BDs) to modulate their information into the legacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Yinghui Ye , Liqin Shi , Xiaoli Chu , Guangyue Lu

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

We consider a wideband integrated access and backhaul system operating in full-duplex mode between the New Radio gNB donor and single user equipment. Due to high power consumption in millimeter wave systems, we use low-resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

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, 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

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

Medium-scale or large-scale receive antenna array with digital beamforming can be employed at receiver to make a significant interference reduction, but leads to expensive cost and high complexity of the RF-chain circuit. To deal with this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Linlin Sun , Yaolu Qin , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Yijin Zhang , Shuping Yang , Jinhui Lu , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper focuses on the non-coherent detection in ambient backscatter communication, which is highly appealing for systems where the trade-off between signaling overhead and the actual data transmission is very critical. Modeling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

Ambient backscatter communications have been identified for ultra-low energy wireless communications. Indeed, a tag can send a message to a reader without emitting any wave and without battery, simply by backscattering the waves generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jean-Marc Kelif , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

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

Hybrid beamforming for frequency-selective channels is a challenging problem as the phase shifters provide the same phase shift to all of the subcarriers. The existing approaches solely rely on the channel's frequency response and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Sohail Payami , Mathini Sellathurai , Konstantinos Nikitopoulos

Future Internet-of-Things networks are envisioned to use small and cheap sensor nodes with extremely low power consumption to avoid the extensive use of batteries. To provide connectivity to a massive number of these nodes, backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

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

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu