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It is well known that the capacity region of an average transmit power constrained Gaussian Broadcast Channel (GBC) with independent noise realizations at the receivers is enlarged by the presence of causal noiseless feedback. Capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Vinod Prabhakaran , Michèle Wigger

This paper shows that wirelessly powered backscatter communications is subject to a fundamental tradeoff between the harvested energy at the tag and the reliability of the backscatter communication, measured in terms of SNR at the reader.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Bruno Clerckx , Zati Bayani Zawawi , Kaibin Huang

To combat the detrimental effects of the variability in wireless channels, we consider cross-layer rate adaptation based on limited feedback. In particular, based on limited feedback in the form of link-layer acknowledgements (ACK) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-21 C. Emre Koksal , Philip Schniter

An information measure based on fractional partitions of a set is used to derive a general dependence balance inequality for communication. This inequality is used to obtain new upper bounds on reliable and secret rates for multiterminal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Amin Gohari , Gerhard Kramer

Practical ISAC is constrained by static clutter and NLoS multipath, which obscure target-coupled echoes and induce spurious peaks for beam alignment. Existing receiver-side methods largely model targets as passive scatterers, limiting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xuehui Dong , Kai Wan , Gui Zhou , Chen Shao , Miyu Feng , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper proposes an ultrasonic backscatter communication (UsBC) system for passive implantable medical devices (IMDs) that can operate without batteries, enabling versatile revolutionary applications for future healthcare. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Qianqian Wang , Quansheng Guan , Julian Cheng , Yuankun Tang

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

The majority of spatial signal processing techniques focus on increasing the total system capacity and providing high data rates for intended user(s). Unlike the existing studies, this paper introduces a novel interference modulation method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 M. Yaser Yagan , Ali E. Pusane , Ali Gorcin , Ibrahim Hokelek

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) enables radio-frequency (RF) powered backscatter devices (BDs) (e.g., sensors, tags) to modulate their information bits over ambient RF carriers in an over-the-air manner. This technology also called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Gang Yang , Ying-Chang Liang , Rui Zhang , Yiyang Pei

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the key enablers for 5G systems as it provides larger system bandwidth and the possibility of packing numerous antennas in a small form factor for highly directional communication. In order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Siyao Li , Giuseppe Caire

This paper characterizes the capacity region of a two-user additive-multiplicative multiple access channel (AM-MAC) under heterogeneous input constraints. This model captures the fundamental limits of symbiotic radio, where an active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Qianqian Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang

Molecular Communications (MC) is a bio-inspired communication technique that uses molecules to encode and transfer information. Many efforts have been focused on developing new modulation techniques for MC by exploiting distinguishable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-27 M. Serkan Kopuzlu , M. Okan Araz , Ahmet R. Emirdagi , Murat Kuscu

Backscatter Communication (BackCom) nodes harvest energy from and modulate information over external carriers. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) adapts phase shift response to alter channel strength in specific directions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yang Zhao , Bruno Clerckx

We propose two coding schemes for the two-receiver discrete memoryless broadcast channel (BC) with rate-limited feedback from one or both receivers. They improve over the nofeedback capacity region for a large class of channels, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Youlong Wu , Michèle Wigger

This paper studies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with two rate-limited helpers who observe the channel state sequence and the feedback sequence, respectively. Depending on the timing of compressing and using the state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yiqi Chen , Holger Boche , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

This paper investigates the secrecy capacity of the binary beampointing (BBP) channel with block memory and feedback, a simplified yet insightful model for millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems with beamformed transmissions and backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Siyao Li , Mingzhe Chen , Shuangyang Li , Giuseppe Caire

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

In many wireless communication systems, radios are subject to a duty cycle constraint, that is, a radio only actively transmits signals over a fraction of the time. For example, it is desirable to have a small duty cycle in some low power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Lei Zhang , Hui Li , Dongning Guo

Low-power ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) relying on radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting is an energy-efficient solution for batteryless Internet of things (IoT). However, ambient backscatter signals are severely faded by dyadic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Tae Yeong Kim , Dong In Kim