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Enabling large-scale energy-efficient Internet-of-things (IoT) connectivity is an essential step towards realization of networked society. While legacy wide-area wireless systems are highly dependent on network-side coordination, the level…

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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…

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We analyze the impact of arbitrary dependence between the forward and backward links in backscatter communication systems. Specifically, we quantify the effect of positive and negative dependence between these fading links on channel…

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Quantum communication is an important branch of quantum information science, promising unconditional security to classical communication and providing the building block of a future large-scale quantum network. Noise in realistic quantum…

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Harvesting energy from ambient environment is a new promising solution to free electronic devices from electric wire or limited-lifetime battery, which may find very significant applications in sensor networks and body-area networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tao Li , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

Transformer models are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications, yet their computational and memory demands far exceed the capabilities of a single typical ultra-low-power IoT device. We present CATS, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alexander Gräfe , Ding Huo , Vincent de Bakker , Johannes Berger , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

The various wireless networks have made the ambient radio frequency signals around the world. Wireless information and power transfer enables the devices to recycle energy from these ambient radio frequency signals and process information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Zhiyong Chen , Biao Wang , Bin Xia , Hui Liu

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this letter, we consider a wireless-powered backscatter communication (WP-BackCom) network, where the transmitter first harvests energy from a dedicated energy RF source in the sleep state, and then backscatters information and harvests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yinghui Ye , Liqin Shi , Rose Hu , Guangyue Lu

Future wireless communications systems are expected to support multi-service operation, i.e. especially multi-rate as well as multi-level quality of service (QoS) requirements. This evolution is mainly driven by the success of the Internet…

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Radio waves carry both energy and information simultaneously. Nevertheless, Radio-Frequency (RF) transmission of these quantities have traditionally been treated separately. Currently, we are experiencing a paradigm shift in wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Bruno Clerckx , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dong In Kim , H. Vincent Poor

Scattering from a compound barrier, one composed of a number of distinct non-overlapping sub-barriers, has a number of interesting and subtle mathematical features. If one is scattering classical particles, where the wave aspects of the…

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The future wireless communication system faces the bottleneck of the shortage of traditional spectrum resources and the explosive growth of the demand for wireless services. Millimeter-wave communication with spectral resources has become…

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The rapid growth of IoT devices has led to an enormous amount of sensor data that requires transmission to cloud servers for processing, resulting in excessive network congestion, increased latency and high energy consumption. This is…

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In the past few years, the demand for high data rate services has increased dramatically. The congestion in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum (3 kHz ~ 300 GHz) is expected to limit the growth of future wireless systems unless new parts of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Osama Alsulami , Ahmed Taha Hussein , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Novel Internet-of-Things (IoT) access technologies are emerging as part of the next generation cellular networks. These technologies are specifically oriented towards energy-limited IoT devices that are scattered far away from their serving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Bisma Manzoor , Bassel Al Homssi , Akram Al-Hourani

A crucial step towards the 6th generation (6G) of networks would be a shift in communication paradigm beyond the limits of Shannon's theory. In both classical and quantum Shannon's information theory, communication channels are generally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Marcello Caleffi , Kyrylo Simonov , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

We consider scaling laws for maximal energy efficiency of communicating a message to all the nodes in a wireless network, as the number of nodes in the network becomes large. Two cases of large wireless networks are studied -- dense random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Aman Jain , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Sergio Verdu

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

The ever-developing Internet of Things (IoT) brings the prosperity of wireless sensing and control applications. In many scenarios, different wireless technologies coexist in the shared frequency medium as well as the physical space. Such…

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