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Backscatter communication (BC) emerges as a pivotal technology for ultra-low-power energy harvesting applications, but its practical deployment is often hampered by notable security vulnerabilities. Physical layer authentication (PLA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yishan Yang , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

Existing studies about ambient backscatter communication mostly assume flat-fading channels. However, frequency-selective channels widely exist in many practical scenarios. Therefore, this paper investigates ambient backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Chong Zhang , Yao Qin , Gongpu Wang , Ruisi He , Rongfei Fan

Ambient backscatter communication has shown great potential in the development of future wireless networks. It enables a backscatter transmitter (BTx) to send information directly to an adjacent receiver by modulating over ambient radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Shaoqing Zhou , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Arumugam Nallanathan

Rotatable antenna (RA) provides additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) for communication systems by enabling per-antenna dynamic boresight adjustment, which is attractive for fairness-oriented multicast transmission. This letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Weihua Zhu , Beixiong Zheng , Lipeng Zhu , Jie Tang , Yong Zeng

Novel backscatter communication techniques enable battery-free sensor tags to interoperate with unmodified standard IoT devices, extending a sensor network's capabilities in a scalable manner. Without requiring additional dedicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Daniel F. Perez-Ramirez , Carlos Pérez-Penichet , Nicolas Tsiftes , Thiemo Voigt , Dejan Kostic , Magnus Boman

This article considers the performance of wireless communication systems that utilize reconfigurable or pattern-dynamic antennas. The focus is on finite-state channels with memory and performance is assessed in terms of real-time behavior.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Santhosh Kumar , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Gregory H. Huff

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has emerged as a highly attractive paradigm for energy-efficient communication. Full-duplex multi-tag AmBC systems provide the scalability and efficient spectrum utilization essential for next…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Saeed Abdallah , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Bassel Al Homssi , Mohamed Saad , Abdulmalik Alwarafy

We consider an ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) system aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The optimization of the IRS to assist AmBC is extremely difficult when there is no prior channel knowledge, for which no design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou

Constructing efficient low-rate error-correcting codes with low-complexity encoding and decoding have become increasingly important for applications involving ultra-low-power devices such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. To this end,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Fariba Abbasi , Hessam Mahdavifar , Emanuele Viterbo

We introduce a novel system setup where a backscatter device operates in the presence of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). In particular, we study the bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) system assisted by an IRS. The phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xiaolun Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato

A passive loudspeaker mounted in a duct acts as a reciprocal scatterer for plane waves impinging on either of its sides. However, the reciprocity can be broken by means of an asymmetric electroacoustic feedback which supplies to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Anis Maddi , Gaelle Poignand , Vassos Achilleos , Vincent Pagneux , Guillaume Penelet

We study the backward scatterings of plane waves by reciprocal scatterers and reveal that $n$-fold ($n\geq3$) rotation symmetry is sufficient to secure invariant backscattering for arbitrarily-polarized incident plane waves. It is further…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) over orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) signals has recently been proposed as an appealing technique for low power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The special spectrum structure…

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

Backscatter Communication (BackCom) technology has emerged as a promising paradigm for the Green Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, offering advantages such as low power consumption, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shumaila Javaid , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Nasir Saeed

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a key technology to satisfy the increasing need for low-cost and green Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity, especially in large-scale deployments. Unlike the monostatic BC (MoBC), the bistatic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

The probability density function (pdf) of the received signal of an ambient backscatter communication system is derived, assuming that on-off keying (OOK) is performed at the tag, and that the ambient radio frequency (RF) signal is white…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sudarshan Guruacharya , Xiao Lu , Ekram Hossain

Backscatter communication is an energy-efficient technique that enables sustainable wireless connectivity with a minimal environmental impact. In this paper, the secrecy performance of practical non-linear energy-harvesting backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mohammad Nafees , Dharmendra Dixit , Arvind Kumar

Synchronization is a fundamental enabler for low-power backscatter communication systems, where passive or semi-passive tags modulate ambient RF signals for ultra-low-power data transfer. In this survey, we review recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Wenyuan Jiang , Shuo Guo

We aims to provide an interpretation of the the design background, motivation, and key innovations of FreeRider. The technique utilized by FreeRider enables tags to transform codewords present in commodity signals into another valid ones…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Chenming Zhang