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Mobile crowdsensing has emerged as an efficient sensing paradigm which combines the crowd intelligence and the sensing power of mobile devices, e.g.,~mobile phones and Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets. This article addresses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Yutao Jiao , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Derek Leong , Zhu Han

WiFi backscatter tags can enable direct connectivity of IoT devices with commodity WiFi hardware at low power. However, most state of the art backscatter tag implementations in this area have limited transmitter to tag range, are not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Manideep Dunna , Shihkai Kuo , Akshit Agarwal , Patrick Mercier , Dinesh Bharadia

Backscatter communications is attractive for its low power requirements due to the lack of actively radiating components; however, commonly used devices are typically limited in range and functionality. Here, we design and demonstrate a…

Smartphones have been shipped with multiple wireless network interfaces in order to meet their diverse communication and networking demands. However, as smartphones increasingly rely on wireless network connections to realize more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Feng Xia , Ching-Hsien Hsu , Xiaojing Liu , Fangwei Ding , Wei Zhang

The cognitive radio wireless sensor networks have become an integral part of communicating spectrum information to the fusion center, in a cooperative spectrum sensing environment. A group of battery operated sensors or nodes, sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Atchutananda Surampudi , Krishnamoorthy Kalimuthu

Wireless communication in a network of mobile devices is a challenging and resource demanding task, due to the highly dynamic network topology and the wireless channel randomness. This paper investigates information broadcast schemes in 2D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zijie Zhang , Guoqiang Mao , Brian Anderson

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

Over the past decade, the Internet of Things and smart devices have become increasingly common as part of the technological infrastructure that surrounds us. The flow of data generated by these systems is characterized by enormous…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Noam David

We present our ``Zero Energy Network'' (ZEN) protocol stack for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks applications. The novelty in our work is $4$ fold: (1) Energy harvesting aware fully featured MAC layer. Carrier sensing, Backoff…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Akshay Uttama Nambi S. N. , Prabhakar T. , R Venkatesha Prasad , Jamadagni H. S

The booming of Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to provide more intelligent and reliable communication services for higher network coverage, massive connectivity, and low-cost solutions for 6G services. However, frequent charging and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ticao Zhang , Dennis Hui , Mehrnaz Afshang , Mohammad Mozaffari

This paper presents a comprehensive mathematical model to characterize the energy dynamics of batteryless IoT sensor nodes powered entirely by ambient energy harvesting. The model captures both the energy harvesting and consumption phases,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Jimmy Fernandez Landivar , Andrea Zanella , Ihsane Gryech , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yifan Zhang , Yu Bai , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

Our work demonstrates a new set of silent reconnaissance attacks, which leverages the presence of commodity WiFi devices to track users inside private homes and offices, without compromising any WiFi network, data packets, or devices. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yanzi Zhu , Zhujun Xiao , Yuxin Chen , Zhijing Li , Max Liu , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Wireless Sensor networks are dense networks of small, low-cost sensors, which collect and disseminate environmental data and thus facilitate monitoring and controlling of physical environment from remote locations with better accuracy. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Deepali Virmani , Tanuj Singhal , Ghanshyam , Khyati Ahlawat , Noble

Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT) devices, as a critical enabler of future green IoT networks, have attracted broad interest from both industry and academia due to their ability to operate without batteries and with low maintenance costs.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

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

In this article, we present a distributed framework for collecting and analyzing environmental and location data recorded by human users (carriers) with the use of portable sensors. We demonstrate the data mining analysis potential among…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-08-02 John Gekas

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

The period after the COVID-19 wave is called the Echo-period. Estimation of crowd size in an outdoor environment is essential in the Echo-period. Making a simple and flexible working system for the same is the need of the hour. This article…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Santu Sardar , Amit K. Mishra , Mohammed Z. A. Khan

Long-term wildlife tracking is crucial for biodiversity monitoring, but energy limitations pose challenges, especially for animal tags, where replacing batteries is impractical and stressful for the animal due to the need to locate,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Samer Nasser , Henrique Duarte Moura , Dragan Subotic , Ritesh Kumar Singh , Maarten Weyn , Jeroen Famaey