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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

As a key enabling technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G communication networks, millimeter wave (mmWave) backscatter has undergone noteworthy advancements and brought significant improvement to prevailing sensing and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Yang Zou , Jiaming Gu , Xiaolei Yang , Jia Zhang , Ziheng Mao

The integration of backscatter communication (BackCom) technology with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology not only enhances the system sensing performance, but also enables low-power information transmission. This is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Zongyao Zhao , Yuhan Dong , Tiankuo Wei , Xinke Tang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Zhenyu Liu

Continued progress towards energy-neutral Internet of Things (IoT) nodes expose the wireless communication link as the dominant energy bottleneck. While low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies achieve long-range communication with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Tijl Schepens , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

Backscatter communication offers a promising solution to connect massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low cost and high energy efficiency. Nevertheless, its inherently passive nature limits transmission reliability, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hao Chen , Zhizhi Huang , Ying-Chang Liang , Robert Schober

Battery-free Internet of Things (BF-IoT) enabled by backscatter communication is a rapidly evolving technology offering advantages of low cost, ultra-low power consumption, and robustness. However, the practical deployment of BF-IoT is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Taorui Liu , Xu Liu , Zhiquan Xu , Houfeng Chen , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

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

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. The key challenge in the development of AmBC is the very weak RF signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ross Murch

The potential of Wi-Fi backscatter communications systems is immense, yet challenges such as signal instability and energy constraints impose performance limits. This paper introduces FlexScatter, a Wi-Fi backscatter system using a designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xin He , Jingwen Xie , Aohua Zhang , Weiwei Jiang , Yujun Zhu , Tad Matsumoto

In this work, we consider a backscatter communication system wherein multiple asynchronous sources (tags) exploit the reverberation generated by a nearby radar transmitter as an ambient carrier to deliver a message to a common destination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Jeremy Johnston , Marco Lops , Xiaodong Wang

In this brief, a novel harmonic-backscatter-rectifier (HBR) is introduced for simultaneous rectification and harmonic-based uplink. The proposed (HBR) employs a rectifier to generate both DC power and the harmonic carriers for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Dan Che , Changjun Liu , Haoming He , Zhi Hua Ren , Pengde Wu

The lightweight protocols and low-power radio technologies open up many opportunities to facilitate Internet-of-Things (IoT) into our daily life, while their minimalist design also makes IoT devices vulnerable to many active attacks due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zhiqing Luo , Wei Wang , Jun Qu , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

Multiple-antenna backscatter is emerging as a promising approach to offer high communication performance for the data-intensive applications of ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). Although much has been understood about…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Zhiang Niu , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

We present the first wireless protocol that scales to hundreds of concurrent transmissions from backscatter devices. Our key innovation is a distributed coding mechanism that works below the noise floor, operates on backscatter devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Mehrdad Hessar , Ali Najafi , Shyamnath Gollakota

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

Ambient backscatter communication technology has been introduced recently, and is then quickly becoming a promising choice for self-sustainable communication systems as an external power supply or a dedicated carrier emitter is not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Dong In Kim , Yong Xiao , Zhu Han

In Zigbee backscatter systems, tags piggyback information by adding phase shifts to the RF carriers. The instantaneous-phase shift (IPS) modulation adds phase shifts by toggling between discrete phases, which is easy to realize and is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Kailai Yan

Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology that enables portable devices to form short-range wireless ad hoc networks. Unlike wireless LAN, the communication of Bluetooth devices follow a strict master slave relationship, that is, it is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Yusuf Perwej , Dr. Kashiful Haq , Uruj Jaleel , Sharad Saxena

The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Xi Weng , Lingyang Song