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This letter proposes a novel anti-interference communication method leveraging computational antennas, utilizing time averaging and 1-bit reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to achieve robust signal modulation with minimal hardware…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xiaocun Zong , Fan Yang , Shenheng Xu , Maokun Li

Determining the efficiency of an HF-antenna by measurements requires is a complex procedure involving expensive equipment, calibrated instruments for field strengths. In this paper we evaluate a simple, inexpensive method to determine the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Jens Zander

We study a novel communication mechanism, ambient backscatter, that utilizes radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted from an ambient source as both energy supply and information carrier to enable communications between low-power devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jing Qian , Feifei Gao , Gongpu Wang , Shi Jin , Hongbo Zhu

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) is a promising antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xue Xiong , Beixiong Zheng , Wen Wu , Xiaodan Shao , Liang Dai , Ming-Min Zhao , Jie Tang

This study introduces and investigates the integration of a cell-free architecture with bistatic backscatter communication (BiBC), referred to as cell-free BiBC or distributed access point (AP)-assisted BiBC, which can enable potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Diluka Galappaththige , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

Rotatable antenna (RA) represents a novel antenna architecture that enhances wireless communication system performance by independently or collectively adjusting each antenna's boresight/orientation. In this demonstration, we develop a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Qiyao Wang , Xue Xiong , Xiaodan Shao , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Small volume, finite conductivity and high frequencies are major imperatives in the design of communications infrastructure. The radiation efficiency $\eta_r$ impacts on the optimal gain, quality factor, and bandwidth. The current…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Morteza Shahpari , David V. Thiel

This paper proposes to leverage intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter to realize radio-frequency-chain-free uplink-transmissions (RFCF-UT). In this communication paradigm, IRS works as an information carrier, whose elements are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Jiliang Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Jie Zhang

A new method of antenna radiation pattern reconstruction using Chebyshev polynomials was presented in this paper. The analysis starts from the data measured in the frequency domain, and it corresponds to a direct propagating between two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Zhou Du , Minwook Kwon , Dongsun Choi , Jinhwan Koh

The retrodirective antenna array is considered as a mechanism to enable target tracking of a power receiver for long range wireless power transfer (WPT) due to its simplicity in implementation using only analog circuits. By installing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Charleston Dale M. Ambatali , Shinichi Nakasuka , Bo Yang , Naoki Shinohara

Reconfigurable reflectarray antennas (RRAs) have rapidly developed with various prototypes proposed in recent literatures. However, designing wideband, multiband, or high-frequency RRAs faces great challenges, especially the lengthy…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Changhao Liu , You Wu , Songlin Zhou , Fan Yang , Yongli Ren , Shenheng Xu , Maokun Li

We summarise the mathematical foundation of the holographic method of measuring the reflector profile of an antenna or radio telescope. In particular, we treat the case, where the signal source is located at a finite distance from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 J. W. M. Baars , R. Lucas , J. G. Mangum , J. A. Lopez-Perez

Flexible coupler antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels by controlling coupler positions and/or rotations and dynamically exploiting mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

The interaction of body worn antennas with the human body causes a significant decrease in the antenna efficiency and a shift in the resonant frequency. A resonant slot in a small conductive box placed on the body has been shown to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Marta Fernandez , Hugo G. Espinosa , David V. Thiel , Amaia Arrinda

We propose a low complexity antenna selection algorithm for low target rate users in cloud radio access networks. The algorithm consists of two phases: In the first phase, each remote radio head (RRH) determines whether to be included in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Jeonghun Park , Robert W. Heath

This paper introduces a highly efficient rectenna (rectifying antenna) using a binary optimization algorithm. A novel pixelated receiving antenna has been developed to match the diode impedance of a rectifier, eliminating the need for a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Rasool Keshavarz , Md. Amanath Ullah , Ali Raza , Negin Shariati

Recently, capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUTs) with long rectangular membranes have demonstrated performance advantages over conventional piezoelectric transducers; however, modeling these CMUT geometries has been limited…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shayan Khorassany , Eric B. Dew , Mohammad Rahim Sobhani , Roger J. Zemp

An original experimental method for determining the empirical probability distribution function (PDF) of the quality factor (Q) of a mode-stirred reverberation chamber is presented. Spectral averaging of S-parameters across a relatively…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Luk R. Arnaut , Mihai I. Andries , Jerome Sol , Philippe Besnier

High-sensitive measurement of radio-frequency (RF) electric field is available via the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect of Rydberg atom at room-temperature, which has been developed to be a promising atomic RF receiver.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Zhenfei Song , Wanfeng Zhang , Hongping Liu , Xiaochi Liu , Haiyang Zou , Jie Zhang , Jifeng Qu