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Modern millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems rely on beam alignment to deliver sufficient beamforming gain to close the link between devices. We present a novel beam selection methodology for multi-panel, full-duplex mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Ian P. Roberts , Aditya Chopra , Thomas Novlan , Sriram Vishwanath , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Backscatter communications (BC) has emerged as a promising technology for providing low-powered transmissions in nextG (i.e., beyond 5G) wireless networks. The fundamental idea of BC is the possibility of communications among wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Asad Mahmood , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

The rapid growth of wireless communications has created a significant demand for high throughput, seamless connectivity, and extremely low latency. To meet these goals, a novel technology -- stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) -- has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , Xing Jia , Lu Gan , George K. Karagiannidis , Bruno Clerckx , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui

There is the long-standing assumption that radio communication in the range of hundreds of meters needs to consume mWs of power at the transmitting device. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is not necessarily the case for some devices…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Ambuj Varshney , Oliver Harms , Carlos Perez Penichet , Christian Rohner , Frederik Hermans , Thiemo Voigt

Backscatter Communication (BackCom), which is based on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged as a cutting-edge technological paradigm for self-sustainable Internet-of-things (IoT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards battery-free transmission in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Zain Ali , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Octavia A. Dobre

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

Wireless charging for mobile Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as smartphones is extremely difficult. To reduce energy dissipation during wireless transmission in mobile scenarios, laser or narrow radio beams with sophisticated tracking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Qingwen Liu , Mingqing Xiong , Mingqing Liu , Qingwei Jiang , Wen Fang , Yunfeng Bai

Wireless LAN is currently enjoying rapid deployment in University departments, business offices, hospitals and homes. It becomes an inexpensive technology and allows multiple numbers of the households to simultaneously access the internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sourav Dhar , Rabindranath Bera , K. Mal

In this paper, we investigate optimal scheme to manage time scheduling of different modules including spectrum sensing, radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (RFH) and ambient backscatter communication (ABCom) by maximizing data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xiaolan Liu , Yue Gao , Fengye Hu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) promises unprecedented data rates for next-generation wireless systems. To be practically viable, mmWave massive MU-MIMO basestations (BSs) must rely on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Gian Marti , Oscar Castañeda , Christoph Studer

Low-power ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) relying on radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting is an energy-efficient solution for batteryless Internet of things (IoT). However, ambient backscatter signals are severely faded by dyadic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Tae Yeong Kim , Dong In Kim

Intelligent metasurfaces may be harnessed for realizing efficient holographic multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems, at a low hardware-cost and high energy-efficiency. As part of this family, we propose a hybrid beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has become a key technology for contemporary wireless communication systems. For typical MIMO systems, antenna arrays are separated by half of the signal wavelength, which are termed collocated arrays.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Huizhi Wang , Yong Zeng

Wireless video streaming has traditionally been considered an extremely power-hungry operation. Existing approaches optimize the camera and communication modules individually to minimize their power consumption. However, the joint redesign…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Saman Naderiparizi , Mehrdad Hessar , Vamsi Talla , Shyamnath Gollakota , Joshua R. Smith

Current backscatter channel estimators employ an inefficient silent pilot transmission protocol, where tags alternate between silent and active states. To enhance performance, we propose a novel approach where tags remain active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Fatemeh Rezaei , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

Wireless energy transfer (WET) is a green enabler of low-power Internet of Things (IoT). Therein, traditional optimization schemes relying on full channel state information (CSI) are often too costly to implement due to excessive energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Onel L. A. López , Francisco A. Monteiro , Hirley Alves , Rui Zhang , Matti Latva-aho

The key obstacle to achieving the full potential of the millimeter wave (mmWave) band has been the poor propagation characteristics of wireless signals in this band. One approach to overcome this issue is to use antennas that can support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , Vida Vakilian , Nader Behdad , Hamid Jafarkhani

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has been introduced to address communication and power efficiency issues for short-range and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Mahyar Nemati , Jie Ding , Jinho Choi

Ambient backscatter communication is a newly emerged paradigm, which utilizes the ambient radio frequency (RF) signal as the carrier to reduce the system battery requirement, and is regarded as a promising solution for enabling large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Qin Tao , Caijun Zhong , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang