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This paper studies backscatter communication (BackCom) systems with a passive backscatter tag. The effectiveness of these tags is limited by the amount of energy they can harness from incident radio signals, which are used to backscatter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Amus Chee Yuen Goay , Deepak Mishra , Aruna Seneviratne

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

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Yuanwei Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

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

Covert communications hide the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring a certain decoding performance at the receiver. In this work, a wireless communication system under fading channels is considered where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Feng Shu , Jun Li

In an era driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and rapid wireless communication advances, the synergy between sensing and backscatter communication (BackCom) has emerged as a frontier of research. This paper delves deep into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Shayan Zargari , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura

In this paper, we present an experimental setup to evaluate the performance of a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We focus on both the communication and sensing capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Tongyang Xu

The vision of embedding connectivity into billions of everyday objects runs into the reality of existing communication technologies --- there is no existing wireless technology that can provide reliable and long-range communication at tens…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Vamsi Talla , Mehrdad Hessar , Bryce Kellogg , Ali Najafi , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

The large scale reflector array of programmable metasurfaces is capable of increasing the power efficiency of backscatter communications via passive beamforming and thus has the potential to revolutionize the low-data-rate nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Wei Wang , Bincheng Zhu , Yongming Huang , Wei Zhang

Ultrasonic backscatter measurements are widely used for microstructural characterisation. However, in materials containing strong anisotropy and spatial heterogeneity, the interpretation of backscatter signals becomes challenging because…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Yi Yeoh , Bo Lan , Michael J. S. Lowe

Metasurfaces have drawn significant attentions due to their superior capability in tailoring electromagnetic waves with a wide frequency range, from microwave to visible light. Recently, programmable metasurfaces have demonstrated the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Wankai Tang , Xiang Li , Jun Yan Dai , Shi Jin , Yong Zeng , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

Due to the practical challenges in the deployment of existing half-duplex systems, the promise of ubiquitous backscatter connectivity has eluded us. To address this, we design the first long-range full-duplex LoRa backscatter reader. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mohamad Katanbaf , Anthony Weinand , Vamsi Talla

There is a growing demand for ultra low power and ultra low complexity devices for applications which require maintenance-free and battery-less operation. One way to serve such applications is through backscatter devices, which communicate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Rohit Singh , Anil Kumar Yerrapragada , Radha Krishna Ganti

The future of mobile communications looks exciting with the potential new use cases and challenging requirements of future 6th generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks. Since the beginning of the modern era of wireless communications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Ertugrul Basar , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Rui Zhang

This work investigates the temporal dispersion of a wireless terahertz communication signal caused by reflection from a rough (diffuse) surface, and its subsequent impact on symbol error rate versus data rate. Broadband measurements of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Russ Messenger , Karl Strecker , Sabit Ekin , John O'Hara

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

Backscatter communication (BackCom), one of the core technologies to realize zero-power communication, is expected to be a pivotal paradigm for the next generation of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the "strong" direct link (DL)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Ye Liu , Yongjun Xu

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We present a new approach to secure wireless communications using coherent distributed transmission of signals that are spatially decomposed between a two-element distributed antenna array. High-accuracy distributed coordination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Anton Schlegel , Jason M/ Merlo , Samuel Wagner , John B. Lancaster , Jeffrey A. Nanzer