English
Related papers

Related papers: An Efficient Ratio Detector for Ambient Backscatte…

200 papers

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient waves to communicate, and are detected simultaneously by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 D. -T. Phan-Huy , D. Barthel , P. Ratajczak , R. Fara , M. di Renzo , J. de Rosny

In this work, we exploit the radar clutter (i.e., the ensemble of echoes generated by the terrain and/or the surrounding objects in response to the signal emitted by a radar transmitter) as a carrier signal to enable an ambient backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Jeremy Johnston , Xiaodong Wang

Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to avoid the emission of waves and the corresponding energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Philippe Ratajczak , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

We investigate the reliability and security of the ambient backscatter (AmBC) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where the source aims to communication with two NOMA users in the presence of an eavesdropper. We consider a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Xingwang Li , Mengle Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Lihua Li , Zhiguo Ding , Arumugam Nallanathan

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) leverages distance-dependent channel variations for joint distance and angle estimation. However, full-digital architectures have prohibitive hardware costs, making hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper presents a framework for target detection and downlink data transmission in a repeater-assisted bi-static integrated sensing and communication system. A repeater is an active scatterer that retransmits incoming signals with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Anubhab Chowdhury , Erik G. Larsson

A spectrum- and energy-efficient system is essential for millimeter wave communication systems that require large antenna arrays with power-demanding ADCs. We propose an ADC bit allocation (BA) algorithm that solves a minimum mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Jinseok Choi , Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans , Alan Gatherer

Considering the exponential growth of Internet-of-Things devices and the goals toward sustainable networks, the complexity should be focused on the infrastructure side. For a massive number of passive devices, backscatter communication (BC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Low resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be employed to improve the energy efficiency (EE) of a wireless receiver since the power consumption of each ADC is exponentially related to its sampling resolution and the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Aryan Kaushik , Christos Tsinos , Evangelos Vlachos , John Thompson

This paper studies the performance of backscatter communications (BC) over emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology. In particular, a single-antenna source sends information to a FA reader through the wireless forward (i.e., source-to-tag)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong

We present an analytical framework for the channel estimation and the data detection in massive multiple-input multiple-output uplink systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and i.i.d. Rayleigh fading. First, we provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

Existing tag signal detection algorithms inevitably suffer from a high bit error rate (BER) due to the difficulties in estimating the channel state information (CSI). To eliminate the requirement of channel estimation and to improve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang

Utilizing intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) was proven to be efficient in improving the energy efficiency for wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate the passive beamforming and channel estimation for IRS assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jingnan Li , Rui Wang , Erwu Liu

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is featured with low-power communications among a massive number of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, e.g., sensors and actuators. To cope with the demand, wireless-powered cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Ekram Hossain , Ping Wang

The vision of battery-free communication has made backscatter a compelling technology for on-body wearable and implantable devices. Recent advances have facilitated the communication between backscatter tags and on-body smart devices. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zhiqing Luo , Wei Wang , Jiang Xiao , Qianyi Huang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

Relay-enabled backscatter communication (BC) is an intriguing paradigm to alleviate energy shortage and improve throughput of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Most of the existing works focus on the resource allocation that considered the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Rui Xu , Liqin Shi , Yinghui Ye , Haijian Sun , Gan Zheng

This paper investigates how to achieve integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on a cell-free radio access network (CF-RAN) architecture with a minimum footprint of communication resources. We propose a new passive sensing scheme.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Jingxuan Yu , Fan Zeng , Jiamin Li , Feiyang Liu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

Ambient backscatter communication system is an emerging and promising low-energy technology for Internet of Things. In such system, a device named tag, sends a binary message to a reader by backscattering a radio frequency signal generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

This paper studies the performance trade-off in a multi-user backscatter communication (BackCom) system for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), where the multi-antenna ISAC transmitter sends excitation signals to power multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanming Tian , Dan Wang , Chuan Huang , Wei Zhang

This paper investigates the passive detection problem in multi-static integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where multiple sensing receivers (SRs) jointly detect a target using random unknown communication signals transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Renjie He , Yiqiu Wang , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun