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Backscatter Communication (BackCom) technology has emerged as a promising paradigm for the Green Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, offering advantages such as low power consumption, cost-effectiveness, and ease of deployment. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shumaila Javaid , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Nasir Saeed

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

Collecting data from massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a challenging task, since communication circuits are power-demanding while energy supply at IoT devices is limited. To overcome this challenge, backscatter communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shuai Wang , Minghua Xia , Yik-Chung Wu

This letter introduces a novel wireless-powered backscatter communication system which allows sensors to utilize RF signals transmitted from a dedicated RF energy source to transmit data. In the proposed system, when the RF energy source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

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

In an era driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and rapid wireless communication advances, the synergy between sensing and backscatter communication (BackCom) has emerged as a frontier of research. This paper delves deep into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Shayan Zargari , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura

Bluetooth backscatter systems, as a crucial technology for low-power communication in the Internet of Things (IoT), have witnessed remarkable development in recent years. This article comprehensively analyzes multiple related papers,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingyun Du

The success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm relies on, among other things, developing energy-efficient communication techniques that can enable information exchange among billions of battery-operated IoT devices. With its technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

The recent advanced wireless energy harvesting technology has enabled wireless-powered communications to accommodate wireless data services in a self-sustainable manner. However, wireless-powered communications rely on active RF signals to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Xiao Lu , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim , Zhu Han

In networks of mobile autonomous agents, e.g. for data acquisition, we may wish to maximize data transfer or to reliably transfer a minimum amount of data, subject to quality of service or energy constraints. These requirements can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Omar James Faqir , Eric C. Kerrigan , Deniz Gündüz

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

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

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Anran Wang , Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Joshua R. Smith , Shyamnath Gollakota

This paper investigates a multi-hop cognitive radio network in terms of end-to-end bit delivery. The network exploits backscatter communication (BackCom) and harvest-then-transmit (HTT) mode in a hybrid manner. Such a network can be used in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Mahmoud Raeisi , Mehdi Mahdavi , Ali Mohammad Doost Hosseini

In backscatter communication (BC), a passive tag transmits information by just affecting an external electromagnetic field through load modulation. Thereby, the feed current of the excited tag antenna is modulated by adapting the passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Gregor Dumphart , Johannes Sager , Armin Wittneben

Radio communication over interstellar distances is studied, accounting for noise, dispersion, scattering and motion. Large transmitted powers suggest maximizing power efficiency (ratio of information rate to average signal power) as opposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 David G. Messerschmitt

As wireless has disrupted communications, wireless will also disrupt the delivery of energy. Future wireless networks will be equipped with (radiative) wireless power transfer (WPT) capability and exploit radio waves to carry both energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Bruno Clerckx , Junghoon Kim , Kae Won Choi , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we introduce a new model for RF-powered cognitive radio networks with the aim to improve the performance for secondary systems. In our proposed model, when the primary channel is busy, the secondary transmitter is able either…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim , Zhu Han