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This paper studies a fluid-antenna-enabled integrated bistatic sensing and backscatter communication system for future networks where connectivity, power delivery, and environmental awareness are jointly supported by the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 A. Abdelaziz Salem , Saeed Abdallah , Khawla Alnajjar , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Mohamed Saad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Hesham Elsawy

Meta-backscatter system that utilizes meta-material sensors is a promising enabler for future environmental sensing, offering distinct advantages such as low cost, zero-power consumption, and robustness. Specifically, the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mengyuan Cao , Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang

We propose a model system that allows communication of spatiotemporal information using an optical chaotic carrier waveform. The system is based on broad-area nonlinear optical ring cavities, which exhibit spatiotemporal chaos in a wide…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Garcia-Ojalvo , R. Roy

This paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system covert waveform design method for complex clutter environments, with the core objective of maximizing the signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR). The design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Xuyang Zhao , Jiangtao Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Yongchao Wang

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

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

This paper studies achievable information rates of backscatter communication systems where the tag performs load modulation with a freely adaptable passive termination. We find that the complex phasor of the tag current is constrained to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Gregor Dumphart , Johannes Sager , Armin Wittneben

Backscatter radio is a promising technology for low-cost and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The conventional monostatic backscatter radio is constrained by its limited communication range, which restricts its utility in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Junbo Zhang , John Kimionis , Lefteris Kampianakis , Michael S. Eggleston , Jinfeng Du

We propose an analytical framework based on stochastic geometry (SG) formulations to estimate a radar's detection performance under generalized discrete clutter conditions. We model the spatial distribution of discrete clutter scatterers as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Shobha Sundar Ram , Gaurav Singh , Gourab Ghatak

We present a novel analytical framework to characterize the distribution of the conditional receiver operating characteristic (ROC) in radar systems operating within a realization of a Poisson field of interferers and clutters. While…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Gourab Ghatak

We consider a general spectral coexistence scenario, wherein the channels and transmit signals of both radar and communications systems are unknown at the receiver. In this \textit{dual-blind deconvolution} (DBD) problem, a common receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-12 Edwin Vargas , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Roman Jacome , Brian M. Sadler , Henry Arguello

In passive radar, a network of distributed sensors exploit signals from so-called Illuminators-of-Opportunity to detect and localize targets. We consider the case where the IO signal is available at each receiver node through a reference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mats Viberg , Daniele Gerosa , Tomas McKelvey , Patrik Dammert , Thomas Eriksson

This letter introduces an intelligent Real-time Dual-functional Radar-Communication (iRDRC) system for autonomous vehicles (AVs). This system enables an AV to perform both radar and data communications functions to maximize bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Nguyen Quang Hieu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Nguyen Cong Luong , Dusit Niyato

Beamforming techniques are proposed for a joint multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) radar-communication (RadCom) system, where a single device acts both as a radar and a communication base station (BS) by simultaneously communicating with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Ang Li , Huafei Sun , Lajos Hanzo

Radar has long been a common sensor on autonomous vehicles for obstacle ranging and speed estimation. However, as a robust sensor to all-weather conditions, radar's capability has not been well-exploited, compared with camera or LiDAR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yizhou Wang , Gaoang Wang , Hung-Min Hsu , Hui Liu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The integrated design of communication and sensing may offer a potential solution to address spectrum congestion. In this work, we develop a beamforming method for a dual-function radar-communication system, where the transmit signal is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Hossein Maleki , Carles Diaz-Vilor , Ali Pezeshki , Vahid Tarokh , Hamid Jafarkhani

We characterize the performance of a backscatter tag-to-tag (T2T) multi-hop network. For this, we developed a discrete component-based backscatter T2T transceiver and a communication protocol suite. The protocol composed of a novel (i)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Amjad Yousef Majid , Michel Jansen , Guillermo Ortas Delgado , Kasım Sinan Yıldırım , Przemysław Pawełczak

Accurate orientation estimation of objects can aid in scene understanding in many applications. In this paper, we consider use cases where passive tags could be deployed to assist radar systems in estimating object orientation. Towards that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Onel L. A. López , Zhu Han , Ashutosh Sabharwal

In this paper, we present an experimental setup to evaluate the performance of a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We focus on both the communication and sensing capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Tongyang Xu

This paper studies backscatter communication (BackCom) systems with a passive backscatter tag. The effectiveness of these tags is limited by the amount of energy they can harness from incident radio signals, which are used to backscatter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Amus Chee Yuen Goay , Deepak Mishra , Aruna Seneviratne