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The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks raises significant generality and scalability challenges due to energy consumption, deployment complexity, and environmental impact.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Boxuan Xie , Yifan Zhang , Kalle Koskinen , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Riku Jäntti

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

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This paper investigates full-duplex unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided small cell wireless systems, where the UAV serving as the base station (BS) is designed to transmit data to the downlink users and receive data from the uplink users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Cunhua Pan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Relay-enabled backscatter communication (BC) is an intriguing paradigm to alleviate energy shortage and improve throughput of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Most of the existing works focus on the resource allocation that considered the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Rui Xu , Liqin Shi , Yinghui Ye , Haijian Sun , Gan Zheng

Backscatter communication which enables wireless-powered backscatter devices (BDs) to transmit information by reflecting incident signals, is an energy- and cost-efficient communication technology for Internet-of-Things. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Gang Yang , Rao Dai , Ying-Chang Liang

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided backscatter communication (BackCom) networks, where the UAV is leveraged to help the backscatter device (BD) forward signals to the receiver. Based on the presence or absence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Chunguo Li , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently emerged as a promising technique to provide sustainable energy supply for widely distributed low-power ground devices (GDs) in large-scale wireless networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lifeng Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Wireless-powered underground communication networks (WPUCNs), which allow underground devices (UDs) to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free communication, offer a promising solution for sustainable underground monitoring.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kaiqiang Lin , Yijie Mao , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is featured with low-power communications among a massive number of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, e.g., sensors and actuators. To cope with the demand, wireless-powered cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Ekram Hossain , Ping Wang

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

We consider a novel ultra-narrowband (UNB) low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) architecture design for uplink transmission of a massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices over multiple multiplexing bands. An IoT device can randomly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Enes Krijestorac , Ghaith Hattab , Petar Popovski , Danijela Cabric

In next-generation wireless systems, providing location-based mobile computing services for energy-neutral devices has become a crucial objective for the provision of sustainable Internet of Things (IoT). Visible light positioning (VLP) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Yu Bai , Zehui Xiong , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Riku Jäntti

Ambient backscatter (AB) communication is an emerging wireless communication technology that enables wireless devices (WDs) to communicate without requiring active radio transmission. In an AB communication system, a WD switches between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Xiaokang Wen , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Lina Yuan , Juan Wang

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to wirelessly connect billions of low-complexity devices. For wireless information transfer (WIT) in IoT, high density of IoT devices and their ad hoc communication result in strong interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

In this paper, we propose a novel design for the rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled full-duplex (FD) wireless-powered Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this network, the UAV is equipped with an antenna array, and the $K$…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Leyla Fathollahi , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi , Mahmoud Atashbar

This paper investigates a dual-hop joint visible light communication (VLC) and backscatter communication (BC) relaying framework under the finite blocklength (FBL) constraint, aiming at energy-neutral Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti

The boom of the Internet of Things has revolutionized people's lives, but it has also resulted in massive resource consumption and environmental pollution. Recently, Green IoT (GIoT) has become a worldwide consensus to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yimeng Huang , Lijie Liu , Jihong Yu , Yuguang Fang , Wei Gong

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerged as an effective way for improving the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring the propagation environment through a large number of passive reflecting elements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Parisa Ramezani , Abbas Jamalipour