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Green low power networking with the least requirement of dedicated radio resources is need of the hour which has led to the upsurge of backscatter communication (BSC) technology. However, this inherent potential of BSC is challenged by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Deepak Mishra , Erik G. Larsson

Backscatter communication is expected to help in revitalizing the domain of healthcare through its myriad applications. From on-body sensors to in-body implants and miniature embeddable devices, there are many potential use cases that can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Furqan Jameel , Ruifeng Duan , Zheng Chang , Aleksi Liljemark , Tapani Ristaniemi , Riku Jantti

In this work, we exploit the radar clutter (i.e., the ensemble of echoes generated by the terrain and/or the surrounding objects in response to the signal emitted by a radar transmitter) as a carrier signal to enable an ambient backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Jeremy Johnston , Xiaodong Wang

With the emerging Internet-of-Things services, massive machine-to-machine (M2M) communication will be deployed on top of human-to-human (H2H) communication in the near future. Due to the coexistence of M2M and H2H communications, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Sung Hoon Kim , Dong In Kim

Satellite networks are booming to provide high-speed and low latency Internet access, but the transport layer becomes one of the main obstacles. Legacy end-to-end TCP is designed for terrestrial networks, not suitable for error-prone,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jinyu Yin , Li Jiang , Xinggong Zhang , Bin Liu

This paper studies a fluid-antenna-enabled integrated bistatic sensing and backscatter communication system for future networks where connectivity, power delivery, and environmental awareness are jointly supported by the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 A. Abdelaziz Salem , Saeed Abdallah , Khawla Alnajjar , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Mohamed Saad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Hesham Elsawy

Network-assisted single-hop device-to-device (D2D) communication can increase the spectral and energy efficiency of cellular networks by taking advantage of the proximity, reuse, and hop gains when radio resources are properly managed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Jose Mairton B. da Silva , Gabor Fodor , Tarcisio F. Maciel

Infrastructure-less Multi-hop Wireless Networks are the backbone for mission critical communications such as in disaster and battlefield scenarios. However, interference signals in the wireless channel cause losses to transmission in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Muhammad Ali , Alister Burr

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the dominant reliable transport protocol utilized in the Internet. Improving the performance of TCP associated with the presence of multi-hop is one of the research challenges in wireless mesh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Sumedha Chokhandre , Urmila Shrawankar

Backscatter is a key technology for battery-free sensing in industrial IoT applications. To fully cover numerous tags in the deployment area, one often needs to deploy multiple readers, each of which communicates with tags within its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yang Zou , Xin Na , Yimiao Sun , Yuan He

Backscatter radio is a promising technology for low-cost and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The conventional monostatic backscatter radio is constrained by its limited communication range, which restricts its utility in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Junbo Zhang , John Kimionis , Lefteris Kampianakis , Michael S. Eggleston , Jinfeng Du

The IEEE 802.15.4 standard allows for the deployment of cost-effective and energy-efficient multi-hop networks. This document features an in-depth presentation of an analytical model for assessing the performance of such networks. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Florian Meier , Volker Turau

This paper proposes a new microblogging architecture based on peer-to-peer networks overlays. The proposed platform is comprised of three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Miguel Freitas

Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT) devices, as a critical enabler of future green IoT networks, have attracted broad interest from both industry and academia due to their ability to operate without batteries and with low maintenance costs.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

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

Learning communication strategies in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently attracted intensive attention. Early studies typically assumed a fully-connected communication topology among agents, which induces high…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuefeng Wang , Xinran Li , Jiawei Shao , Jun Zhang

This paper shows that wirelessly powered backscatter communications is subject to a fundamental tradeoff between the harvested energy at the tag and the reliability of the backscatter communication, measured in terms of SNR at the reader.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Bruno Clerckx , Zati Bayani Zawawi , Kaibin Huang

Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) have arisen as a promising communication technology for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) services due to their low power operation, wide coverage range, low cost and scalability. However, most LPWAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Sergio Barrachina , Boris Bellalta , Toni Adame , Albert Bel

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

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