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Backscatter communication (BSC) is being realized as the core technology for pervasive sustainable Internet-of-Things applications. However, owing to the resource-limitations of passive tags, the efficient usage of multiple antennas at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Deepak Mishra , Erik G. Larsson

Backscatter communication is an energy-efficient technique that enables sustainable wireless connectivity with a minimal environmental impact. In this paper, the secrecy performance of practical non-linear energy-harvesting backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mohammad Nafees , Dharmendra Dixit , Arvind Kumar

This paper studies a novel cooperation method in a two-user wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which one hybrid access point (HAP) broadcasts wireless energy to two distributed wireless devices (WDs), while the WDs use the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Yuan Zheng , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin

As wireless network technology becomes more and more popular, mutual interference between various signals has become more and more severe and common. Therefore, there is often a situation in which the transmission of its own signal is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a key technology to satisfy the increasing need for low-cost and green Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity, especially in large-scale deployments. Unlike the monostatic BC (MoBC), the bistatic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

The integration of security and energy efficiency in Internet of Things systems remains a critical challenge, particularly for battery-free and resource-constrained devices. This paper explores the scalability and protocol-agnostic nature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Gaël Loubet , Alexandru Takacs

A simple feedback control algorithm is presented for distributed beamforming in a wireless network. A network of wireless sensors that seek to cooperatively transmit a common message signal to a Base Station (BS) is considered. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 R. Mudumbai , J. Hespanha , U. Madhow , G. Barriac

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

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

Future Internet-of-Things networks are envisioned to use small and cheap sensor nodes with extremely low power consumption to avoid the extensive use of batteries. To provide connectivity to a massive number of these nodes, backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Wireless communication environments are unaware of the ongoing data exchange efforts within them. Moreover, their effect on the communication quality is intractable in all but the simplest cases. The present work proposes a new paradigm,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Wireless communication environments comprise passive objects that cause performance degradation and eavesdropping concerns due to anomalous scattering. This paper proposes a new paradigm, where scattering becomes software-defined and,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

In order to ensure the fastest wireless energy transfer from a source to the user one needs to maximize the channel capacity for power transport. In communications technologies, the concept of MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) exploits…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Wavefront shaping enables targeted delivery of coherent light into random-scattering media, such as biological tissue, by constructive interference of scattered waves. However, broadband waves have short coherence times, weakening the…

Diffuse, multiple-scattered waves can be very efficient for information transfer through disordered media, provided that antenna arrays are used for both transmission and reception of signals. Information capacity C of a communication…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Skipetrov

With growing security threats to the evolving wireless systems, protecting user privacy becomes progressively challenging. Even if the transmitted information is encrypted and the potential wiretap channel is physically limited (e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xiao Lu , Ekram Hossain , Tania Shafique , Shaohan Feng , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato

Coherent backscattering is due to constructive interferences of reciprocal paths and leads to an enhancement of the intensity of a multiply scattered field near its source. To observe this enhancement an array of receivers is conventionally…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Larose , Oleg I. Lobkis , Richard L. Weaver

Ambient backscatter has been introduced with a wide range of applications for low power wireless communications. In this article, we propose an optimal and low-complexity dynamic spectrum access framework for RF-powered ambient backscatter…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

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