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We study a backscatter communication protocol over a AWGN channel, where a transmitter illuminates a tag with a directional multi-antenna. The tag performs load modulation on the signal while hiding its physical presence from a warden. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Roberto Di Candia , Saneea Malik , Huseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. One critical challenge of AmBC systems is signal recovery because the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ranjan K. Mallik , Ross Murch

There is a growing demand for ultra low power and ultra low complexity devices for applications which require maintenance-free and battery-less operation. One way to serve such applications is through backscatter devices, which communicate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Rohit Singh , Anil Kumar Yerrapragada , Radha Krishna Ganti

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

Symbiotic radio (SR) backscatter systems are possible techniques for the future low-power wireless communications for Internet of Things devices. In this paper, we propose a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) SR backscatter system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Tuo Wu , Miao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Quanzhong Li , Jiayin Qin

Backscatter communication is expected to help in revitalizing the domain of healthcare through its myriad applications. From on-body sensors to in-body implants and miniature embeddable devices, there are many potential use cases that can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Furqan Jameel , Ruifeng Duan , Zheng Chang , Aleksi Liljemark , Tapani Ristaniemi , Riku Jantti

Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), recently standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), demands a low-power wide-area communication solution that operates several orders of magnitude below the power requirements of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jingyi Liao , Tianshu Zhang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

Backscatter communication (BSC) is a promising solution for Internet-of-Things (IoT) connections due to its low-complexity, low-cost, and energy-efficient solution for sensors. There are several network infrastructure setups that can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Ahmet Kaplan , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

This paper presents a framework for target detection and downlink data transmission in a repeater-assisted bi-static integrated sensing and communication system. A repeater is an active scatterer that retransmits incoming signals with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Anubhab Chowdhury , Erik G. Larsson

Future wireless networks targeted for improving spectral and energy efficiency, are expected to simultaneously provide sensing functionality and support low-power communications. This paper proposes a novel net-zero integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

Movable antenna (MA) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate an MA-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with spatial modulation (SM),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kaihe Wang , Ran Yang , Lipeng Zhu , Rongyan Xi , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

Backscatter communication (BackCom), which allows a backscatter node (BN) to communicate with the reader by modulating and reflecting the incident continuous wave from the reader, is considered as a promising solution to power the future…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jing Guo , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Ambient backscatter communications (AmBackComs) have been recognized as a spectrum- and energy-efficient technology for Internet of Things, as it allows passive backscatter devices (BDs) to modulate their information into the legacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Yinghui Ye , Liqin Shi , Xiaoli Chu , Guangyue Lu

Cognitive backscattering, an integration of cognitive radio and backsatter modulation, is emerging as a potential candidate for green Internet of Things (IoT). In cognitive backscatter systems, the backscatter device (BD) shares not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-16 Huayan Guo , Qianqian Zhang , Dong Li , Ying-Chang Liang

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

Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Erik G. Larsson , Ove Edfors , Fredrik Tufvesson , Thomas L. Marzetta

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Anran Wang , Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

Many concepts for future generations of wireless communication systems use coherent processing of signals from many distributed antennas. The aim is to improve communication reliability, capacity, and energy efficiency and provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christian Nelson , Xuhong Li , Aleksei Fedorov , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Fredrik Tufvesson

Self-sustainable communications based on advanced energy harvesting technologies have been under rapid development, which facilitate autonomous operation and energy-efficient transmission. Recently, ambient backscattering that leverages…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Xiao Lu , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim , Ping Wang

Ambient backscatter communication (BackCom) is faced with the challenge that a single BackCom device can occupy multiple orthogonal resource blocks unintentionally. As a result, in order to avoid co-channel interference, a conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor