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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

To achieve the joint active and passive beamforming gains in the reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted millimeter wave system, the reflected cascade channel needs to be accurately estimated. Many strategies have been proposed in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han , Binyu Lu

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

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

Meta-backscatter system that utilizes meta-material sensors is a promising enabler for future environmental sensing, offering distinct advantages such as low cost, zero-power consumption, and robustness. Specifically, the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mengyuan Cao , Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang

A statistical backscatter channel model for indoor clutter is developed for indoor RF sensing applications based on measurements. A narrowband 28 GHz sounder used a quazi-monostatic radar arrangement with an omnidirectional transmit antenna…

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

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

In this paper, we consider a new large-scale communication scheme where randomly distributed AmBC nodes are involved as secondary users to primary transmitter (PT) and primary receiver (PR) pairs. The secondary communication between a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Dong Han , Hlaing Minn

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

In this paper, we study backscatter communication (BC) for power-limited devices that are connected to a network for the Internet of Things (IoT), where joint estimation and detection is carried out at a receiver to detect signals from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jinho Choi

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

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

In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled dual-scale channel estimation framework, where large-scale channel estimation benefits from sensing, and the temporal variation of small-scale channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bai Zhiyue , Dai Minghui , Hou Fen , Shan hangguan , Cai X Lin , Shen , Xuemin

In this paper, we investigate the performance of ambient backscatter communication non-orthogonal multiple access (AmBC-NOMA)-assisted short packet communication for high-mobility vehicle-to-everything transmissions. In the proposed system,…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xinyue Pei , Xingwei Wang , Yingyang Chen , Tingrui Pei , Miaowen Wen

Ambient backscatter communication has shown great potential in the development of future wireless networks. It enables a backscatter transmitter (BTx) to send information directly to an adjacent receiver by modulating over ambient radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shaoqing Zhou , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Arumugam Nallanathan

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ambient Internet of Things (AIoT) devices to achieve ultra-low-power, low-cost, and massive connectivity. Most existing AmBC studies assume ideal synchronization between the backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yuxin Li , Guangyue Lu , Yinghui Ye , Zehui Xiong , Liqin Shi

A Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for semi-blind channel estimators in redundant block transmission systems is derived. The derived CRB is valid for any system adopting a full-rank linear redundant precoder, including the popular cyclic-prefixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Yen-Huan Li , Borching Su , Ping-Cheng Yeh

Tag signal detection is one of the key tasks in ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems. However, obtaining perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging and costly, which makes AmBC systems suffer from a high bit error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Chang Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang

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