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Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a pivotal wireless communication paradigm owing to its low-power and cost-effective characteristics. However, BC faces various challenges from its low signal detection rate to its security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zhao Li , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

This paper investigates a two-user downlink system for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in which the two users deploy a fluid antenna system (FAS) and adopt the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) strategy. Specifically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Hyundong Shin , Lajos Hanzo

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Anran Wang , Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

This paper explores the secrecy performance of a multi-transmitter system with unreliable backhaul links. To improve secrecy, we propose a novel transmitter selection (TS) scheme that selects a transmitter with the maximum ratio of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Burhan Wafai , Ankit Dubey , Chinmoy Kundu

A tunneling transistor without heterojunction as a theoretical design, or more precisely controlled electron current transmission by barrier potential, is under consideration. The electrons from the conduction band of the source tunnel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Pawel Pfeffer

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

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) backscatter is a promising candidate for battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Unlike existing commodity-level BLE backscatter systems that only enable one-shot communication through BLE advertising…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Huixin Dong , Yijie Wu , Feiyu Li , Wei Kuang , Yuan He , Qian Zhang , Wei Wang

Wireless power transfer (WPT) using energy beamforming is a promising solution for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this work, we consider WPT from an energy transmitter (ET) employing retrodirective WPT using a large phased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

Existing tag signal detection algorithms inevitably suffer from a high bit error rate (BER) due to the difficulties in estimating the channel state information (CSI). To eliminate the requirement of channel estimation and to improve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang

We introduce a novel system setup where a backscatter device operates in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). In particular, we study the bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) system assisted by an IRS. The phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xiaolun Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato

Automotive-Industry 5.0 will use beyond fifth-generation (B5G) technologies to provide robust, computationally intelligent, and energy-efficient data sharing among various onboard sensors, vehicles, and other devices. Recently, ambient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Xingwang Li , Bjorn Ottersten

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 communication (AmBC) over orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) signals has recently been proposed as an appealing technique for low power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The special spectrum structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Mahyar Nemati , Morteza Soltani , Jie Ding , Jinho Choi

A distance bounding system guarantees an upper bound on the physical distance between a verifier and a prover. However, in contrast to a conventional wireless communication system, distance bounding systems introduce tight requirements on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Aanjhan Ranganathan , Boris Danev , Srdjan Capkun

Symbiotic Backscatter Communication (SBC) has emerged as a spectrum-efficient and low-power communication technology, where backscatter devices (BDs) modulate and reflect incident radio frequency (RF) signals from primary transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yinghui Ye , Shuang Lu , Liqin Shi , Xiaoli Chu , Sumei Sun

We consider a joint communication and sensing problem over an optical link in which a low-power transmitter simultaneously communicates with a receiver and identifies the range of a defect producing a backscattered signal. We model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tuna Erdoğan , Shi-Yuan Wang , Shang-Jen Su , Matthieu Bloch

We report a scattering matrix theory for dynamic and nonlinear transport in coherent mesoscopic conductors. In general this theory allows predictions of low frequency linear dynamic conductance, as well as weakly nonlinear DC conductance.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Zhong-shui Ma , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

The emergence of "acoustic diode" (AD) capable of rectifying acoustic wave like electrical diodes do to electricity has been believed to be able to offer unconventional manipulation on sound, e.g., to isolate the wrong-way reflection, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhong-ming Gu , Jie Hu , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Jian-chun Cheng

This work considers distributed sensing and transmission of sporadic random samples. Lower bounds are derived for the reconstruction error of a single normally or uniformly-distributed finite-dimensional vector imperfectly measured by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Ayşe Ünsal , Raymond Knopp

We propose to use an antenna composed of two orthogonal helices as a low-scattering sensor. The vector effective length is derived for the antenna using the small dipole approximation for the helices. The antenna can transmit and receive…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Antti O. Karilainen , Sergei A. Tretyakov