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This paper addresses a fundamental physical layer conflict in hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) between high-throughput primary communication and the stringent power envelope requirements of passive backscatter sensors. We propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Rahul Gulia , Ashish Sheikh , Feyisayo Favour Popoola , Serisha Vadlamudi

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is poised to be a native technology for the forthcoming Sixth Generation (6G) era, with an emphasis on its potential to enhance communications performance through the integration of sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Andrea Ramos , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Saul Inca , Jose F. Monserrat

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

Backscattering tag-to-tag networks (BTTNs) represent a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system that enables direct communication between tags within an external radio frequency (RF) field. However, low spectral efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

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

We present a measurement-based statistical model for the backscatter power ratio of monostatic RF sensing in urban canyons with moving clutter, suitable for large-scale system level performance evaluation of RF sensing in 6G networks. A…

A new mechanism of tunnelling at macroscopic distances is proposed for a wave packet localized in one-dimensional disordered potential with mirror symmetry, V(-x)=V(x). Unlike quantum tunnelling through a regular potential barrier, which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-15 E. Diez , F. Izrailev , A. A. Krokhin , A. Rodriguez

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) using power-domain with backscatter sensor communication (BSC) is expected to connect a large-scale Internet of things (IoT) devices in future sixth-generation (6G) era. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Manzoor Ahmed , Wali Ullah Khan , Asim Ihsan , Xingwang Li , Jianbo Li , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

GaSb/InAs heterojunction tunnel field-effect transistors are strong candidates in building future low-power integrated circuits, as they could provide both steep subthreshold swing and large ON-state current ($I_{\rm{ON}}$). However, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-01 Jun Z. Huang , Pengyu Long , Michael Povolotskyi , Gerhard Klimeck , Mark J. W. Rodwell

Backscatter communication, relying on the reflection principle, constitutes a promising-enabling technology for lowcost, large-scale, ubiquitous sensor networking. This work makes an overview of the state-of-the-art coherent and noncoherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has revolutionized our atomic scale understanding of surfaces and accelerated progress in nanotechnology. This technique, however, is restricted to metal or semiconducting samples, as it requires a tiny…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-16 M. J. Rost

Backscatter communication (BSC) is a promising solution for Internet-of-Things (IoT) connections due to its low-complexity, low-cost, and energy-efficient solution for sensors. There are several network infrastructure setups that can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Ahmet Kaplan , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

Current backscatter channel estimators employ an inefficient silent pilot transmission protocol, where tags alternate between silent and active states. To enhance performance, we propose a novel approach where tags remain active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Fatemeh Rezaei , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

Backscatter communication (BSC) technology can enable ubiquitous deployment of low-cost sustainable wireless devices. In this work we investigate the efficacy of a full-duplex multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) reader for enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Deepak Mishra , Erik G. Larsson

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

We characterize the performance of a backscatter tag-to-tag (T2T) multi-hop network. For this, we developed a discrete component-based backscatter T2T transceiver and a communication protocol suite. The protocol composed of a novel (i)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Amjad Yousef Majid , Michel Jansen , Guillermo Ortas Delgado , Kasım Sinan Yıldırım , Przemysław Pawełczak

Power dissipation has become a major obstacle in performance scaling of modern integrated circuits, and has spurred the search for devices operating at lower voltage swing. In this letter, we study p-i-n band-to-band tunneling field effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siyuranga O. Koswatta , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

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

Backscatter communications (BC) has emerged as a promising technology for providing low-powered transmissions in nextG (i.e., beyond 5G) wireless networks. The fundamental idea of BC is the possibility of communications among wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Asad Mahmood , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

The radio range of backscatter systems continues growing as new wireless communication primitives are continuously invented. Nevertheless, both the bit error rate and the packet loss rate of backscatter signals increase rapidly with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiuzhen Guo , Longfei Shangguan , Yuan He , Nan Jing , Jiacheng Zhang , Haotian Jiang , Yunhao Liu