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Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…
Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) has high demand for energy-saving communications, especially in remote areas and smart cities. To meet this demand, we propose novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted backscatter communications, where a UAV…
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) backscatter system, such as Wi-Fi backscatter, has recently been recognized as a promising technique for the IoT connectivity, due to its ubiquitous and low-cost property. This paper…
Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wireless systems. However, this promise is fundamentally…
Near-zero-refractive index materials display unique optical properties such as perfect transmission through distorted waveguides, cloaking, and inhibited diffraction. Compared to conventional media, they can fundamentally behave differently…
Long Term Evolution (LTE) signal is ubiquitously present in electromagnetic (EM) background environment, which make it an attractive signal source for the ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). In this paper, we propose a system, in…
This paper studies the performance of backscatter communications (BC) over emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology. In particular, a single-antenna source sends information to a FA reader through the wireless forward (i.e., source-to-tag)…
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…
The detector readout architecture introduced in this paper is intended for small to medium size physics experiments that have moderate bandwidth needs, and applications that require an ultimately low background radioactivity for the parts…
Wireless communication environments comprise passive objects that cause performance degradation and eavesdropping concerns due to anomalous scattering. This paper proposes a new paradigm, where scattering becomes software-defined and,…
We introduce and analyse a multiple-access channel with two senders and one receiver, in the presence of i.i.d. noise coming from the environment. Partial side information about the environmental states allows the senders to modulate their…
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…
In ambient re-scatter communications, devices convey information by modulating and re-scattering the radio frequency signals impinging on their antennas. In this correspondence, we consider a system consisting of a legacy modulated…
In this work, we propose a new communication system for illuminated areas, indoors and outdoors. Light sources in our environments -such as light bulbs or even the sun- are our signal emitters, but we do not modulate data at the light…
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…
This paper focuses on the non-coherent detection in ambient backscatter communication, which is highly appealing for systems where the trade-off between signaling overhead and the actual data transmission is very critical. Modeling the…
This paper studies a symbiotic system in which a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assists a radar transmitter while conveying information to a reader via backscattering. The RIS is partitioned into subarrays that redirect the radar…
Ambient backscatter communications (AmBC), where a backscatter transmitter (BT) modulates and reflects ambient signals to a backscatter receiver (BR), have been deemed a low-power communication technology for the Internet of Things.…
We propose to use an antenna composed of two orthogonal helices as a low-scattering sensor. The vector effective length is derived for the antenna using the small dipole approximation for the helices. The antenna can transmit and receive…
In some communication networks, such as passive RFID systems, the energy used to transfer information between a sender and a recipient can be reused for successive communication tasks. In fact, from known results in physics, any system that…