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Backscatter communication is a promising technology to enhance the signal strength received by the receiver in straight tunnel environments. The impact of the number of tags and their phase adjustment on system performance remains a…

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In this paper, we investigate optimal scheme to manage time scheduling of different modules including spectrum sensing, radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (RFH) and ambient backscatter communication (ABCom) by maximizing data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xiaolan Liu , Yue Gao , Fengye Hu

This paper presents RF-Transformer, a unified backscatter radio hardware abstraction that allows a low-power IoT device to directly communicate with heterogeneous wireless receivers at the minimum power consumption. Unlike existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiuzhen Guo , Yuan He , Zihao Yu , Jiacheng Zhang , Yunhao Liu , Longfei Shangguan

We present the first wireless protocol that scales to hundreds of concurrent transmissions from backscatter devices. Our key innovation is a distributed coding mechanism that works below the noise floor, operates on backscatter devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Mehrdad Hessar , Ali Najafi , Shyamnath Gollakota

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of cooperation on system delay, quantified as the number of retransmissions required to deliver a broadcast message to all intended receivers. Unlike existing works on broadcast scenarios, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Anvar Tukmanov , Zhiguo Ding , Said Boussakta , Abbas Jamalipour

This letter presents a detailed performance analysis of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-input single-output communication systems, taking into account of the direct link between the transmitter and receiver. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qin Tao , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

Future wireless networks are envisioned to facilitate the seamless coexistence of communication and sensing functionalities, thereby enabling the much-touted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm. A key challenge in ISAC is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Anup Mishra , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Petar Popovski

Information theoretic secrecy is combined with cryptographic secrecy to create a secret-key exchange protocol for wireless networks. A network of transmitters, which already have cryptographically secured channels between them, cooperate to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Toni Draganov Stojanovski , Ninoslav Marina

This paper investigates a wireless-powered cooperative communication network consisting of a source, a destination and a multi-antenna decode-and-forward relay. We consider the relay as a wireless-powered node that has no external power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Ziyi Li , He Chen , Yifan Gu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Achievable rate regions for cooperative relay broadcast channels with rate-limited feedback are proposed. Specifically, we consider two-receiver memoryless broadcast channels where each receiver sends feedback signals to the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Youlong Wu

In a cooperative coding scheme, network nodes work together to achieve higher transmission rates. To obtain a better understanding of cooperation, we consider a model in which two transmitters send rate-limited descriptions of their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Parham Noorzad , Michelle Effros , Michael Langberg

In spectrum-sharing cognitive radio systems, the transmit power of secondary users has to be very low due to the restrictions on the tolerable interference power dictated by primary users. In order to extend the coverage area of secondary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Minghua Xia , Sonia Aïssa

Energy beamforming (EB) is a key technique for achieving efficient radio-frequency (RF) transmission enabled wireless energy transfer (WET). By optimally designing the waveforms from multiple energy transmitters (ETs) over the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Seunghyun Lee , Rui Zhang

This study investigates signal transmission within a shared spectrum, focusing on measurements conducted both in laboratory and outdoor environments. The objective was to demonstrate how laboratory objects obstructing the line of sight can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Andrei-Raoul Morariu , Andreas Strandberg , Bogdan Iancu , Jerker Bjorkqvist

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based communications is a promising new technology that can add a wide range of new capabilities to the current network infrastructure. Given the flexibility, cost-efficiency, and convenient use of UAVs, they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

This paper studies a novel user cooperation method in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where a pair of closely located devices first harvest wireless energy from an energy node (EN) and then use the harvested energy to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Wanran Xu , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Juan Wang

We consider a wireless network composed of three nodes and limited by the half-duplex and total power constraints. This formulation encompasses many of the special cases studied in the literature and allows for capturing the common features…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Lifeng Lai , Ke Liu , Hesham El Gamal

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