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With new applications for radar networks such as automotive control or indoor localization, the need for spectrum sharing and general interoperability is expected to rise. This paper describes the application of multi-player bandit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 William W. Howard , Charles E. Thornton , Anthony F. Martone , R. Michael Buehrer

We consider a cache-aided communications system in which a transmitter communicates with many receivers over an erasure broadcast channel. The system serves as a basic model for communicating on-demand content during periods of high network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Roy Timo , Michele Wigger

In ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems, passive tags connect to a reader by reflecting an ambient radio frequency (RF) signal. However, the reader may not know the channel states and RF source parameters. The traditional energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 S. Zargari , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref

The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yang Liu

Path loss prediction for wireless communications is highly dependent on the local environment. Propagation models including clutter information have been shown to significantly increase model accuracy. This paper explores the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ryan Dempsey , Jonathan Ethier

Backscatter system is a system based on backscatter communication technology, which is a low cost, low power consumption and easy to deploy communication technology. At present, the backscatter technology is mainly applied to RFID tags and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jincheng Guan , Jun Zhang

This paper addresses the problem that designing the transmit waveform and receive beamformer aims to maximize the receive radar SINR for secure dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems, where the undesired multi-user interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Nanchi Su , Zhongxiang Wei , Christos Masouros

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

In tracking radar, the sensing environment often varies significantly over a track duration due to the target's trajectory and dynamic interference. Adapting the radar's waveform using partial information about the state of the scene has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone

Narrowband and broadband indoor radar images significantly deteriorate in the presence of target dependent and independent static and dynamic clutter arising from walls. A stacked and sparse denoising autoencoder (StackedSDAE) is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Shobha Sundar Ram , Shelly Vishwakarma , Akanksha Sneh , Kainat Yasmeen

In this paper, we propose a new solution for the detection problem of a coherent target in heterogeneous environments. Specifically, we first assume that clutter returns from different range bins share the same covariance structure but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Angelo Coluccia , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) is becoming increasingly popular for enabling green communication amidst the continual development of the Internet-of-things paradigm. Efforts have been put into backscatter signal detection as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Xiyu Wang , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti

Modern radar typically employs a chain architecture that consists of radio-frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) units, baseband digital signal processor, and information display. However, this architecture often results in high…

Due to extremely low power consumption, backscatter has become the transmission mechanism of choice for battery-free devices that operate on harvested energy. However, a limitation of recent backscatter systems is that the communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ambuj Varshney , Andreas Soleiman , Thiemo Voigt

We present an analytical theory describing a novel phenomenon of enhanced backscattering corresponding to the spatial refocussing of a spread-out correlated wave packet due to a brief interaction with a disordered potential. Our theory is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-05-21 Nicolas Cherroret , Dominique Delande

In traditional spread-spectrum techniques, a wideband transmit signal is obtained by modulating a wideband carrier by a narrowband signal containing a relatively low-rate message. In the receiver, the respective demodulation/despreading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Alexei V. Nikitin , Ruslan L. Davidchack

Dual-Functional Radar-Communication systems enhance the benefits of communications and radar sensing by jointly implementing these on the same hardware platform and using the common RF resources. An important and latest concern to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Onur Dizdar , Aryan Kaushik , Bruno Clerckx , Christos Masouros

In this paper, we derive the information theoretic performance bounds on communication data rates and errors in parameter estimation, for a joint radar and communication (JRC) system. We assume that targets are semi-passive, i.e. they use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ganesan Thiagarajan , Sanjeev Gurugopinath

This letter considers a network where nodes share a wireless channel to work in turn as pulse radars for target detection and as transmitters for data exchange. Radar detection range and network throughput are studied using stochastic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ping Ren , Andrea Munari , Marina Petrova

The combination of frequency diverse array (FDA) radar technology with the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar architecture and waveform diversity techniques potentially promises a high integration gain with respect to conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Yan Sun , Ming-jie Jia , Wen-qin Wang , Maria Sabrina Greco , Fulvio Gini , Shunsheng Zhang