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Bumblebee is an innovative backscatter system that leverages productive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) carriers to generate ZigBee transmissions. It improves upon previous systems like FreeRider and Interscatter by eliminating restrictions on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Hao Zhao

By combining traditional frequency hopping ideas with the concepts of subcarriers and sampling points in OFDM baseband systems, this paper proposes a frequency hopping technology within the baseband called micro frequency hopping. Based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Fanping Du , Pingfang Du

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

This study introduces and investigates the integration of a cell-free architecture with bistatic backscatter communication (BiBC), referred to as cell-free BiBC or distributed access point (AP)-assisted BiBC, which can enable potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Diluka Galappaththige , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

This paper considers massive Internet of Things systems, especially for LoW Power Wide Area Networks, that aim at connecting billions of low-cost devices with multi-year battery life requirements. Current systems for massive Internet of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lorenzo Vangelista , Bruno Jechoux , Jean-Xavier Canonici , Michele Zorzi

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is widely used in IoT systems because of its low power consumption, interoperability, and reliable bidirectional communication. However, its connection-oriented architecture introduces trade-offs among wake-up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ziyao Zhou , Chen Shen , Tiancheng Cao , Hen-Wei Huang

Achieving long-range, high data rate, concurrent two-way mmWave communication with power-constrained IoT devices is fundamental to scaling future ubiquitous sensing systems, yet the substantial power demands and high cost of mmWave hardware…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Skanda Harisha , Jimmy G. D. Hester , Aline Eid

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

With vast amounts of spectrum available in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, small cells at mmWave frequencies densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell network have gained considerable interest from academia,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yong Niu , Chuhan Gao , Yong Li , Li Su , Depeng Jin

The separate receiver architecture with a time- or power-splitting mode, widely used for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), has a major drawback: Energy-intensive local oscillators and mixers need to be installed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Do-Yup Kim , Chae-Bong Sohn , Hyun-Suk Lee

With the evolution of heterogeneous computing system, such as network-on-chip, high-performance distributed computing, accelerator-rich architectures and cluster computing, high-speed, energy-efficient and low-latency interfaces among…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Jason Y. Du

Bluetooth is an omnipresent technology, available on billions of devices today. While it has been traditionally limited to peer-to-peer communication and star networks, the recent Bluetooth Mesh standard extends it to multi-hop networking.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Beshr Al Nahas , Antonio Escobar-Molero , Jirka Klaue , Simon Duquennoy , Olaf Landsiedel

Visible light communication (VLC) backscatter has been proposed as a wireless access option for Internet of Things (IoT). However, the throughput of the state-of-the-art VLC backscatter is limited by simple single-carrier pulsed modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Hany Elgala

This letter examines the impact of oscillator phase noise on sub-terahertz OFDM transceiver architectures, with a focus on the comparison between homodyne and heterodyne designs. Using a Hexa-X compliant phase noise model, we analytically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Didem Aydoğan , Korkut Kaan Tokgöz

Far-field microwave power transfer (MPT) will free wireless sensors and other mobile devices from the constraints imposed by finite battery capacities. Integrating MPT with wireless communications to support simultaneous information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Kaibin Huang , Erik G. Larsson

Wireless power transfer (WPT) using energy beamforming is a promising solution for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this work, we consider WPT from an energy transmitter (ET) employing retrodirective WPT using a large phased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

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

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables a passive backscatter device to transmit information to a reader using ambient RF signals, and has emerged as a promising solution to green Internet-of-Things (IoT). Conventional AmBC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Gang Yang , Qianqian Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang

In this paper, we study the problem of joint inband backhauling and interference mitigation in 5G heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in which a massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) macro cell base station equipped with a large number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Trung Kien Vu , Mehdi Bennis , Sumudu Samarakoon , Merouane Debbah , Matti Latva-aho

The spectrum-rich millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies have the potential to alleviate the spectrum crunch that the wireless and cellular operators are already experiencing. However, compared with traditional wireless communication in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Chanaka Samarathunga , Mohamed Abouelseoud , Kazuyuki Sakoda , Morteza Hashemi