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This paper presents a novel, cost-effective, and scalable approach to track numerous assets distributed in forested environments using commodity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) targeting wildfire response applications. Commodity RFID…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 John Hateley , Sriram Narasimhan , Omid Abari

This review investigates the pivotal role of distributed architectures and intelligent resource allocation in enabling robust and scalable wireless systems, with a particular emphasis on backscatter communication, indoor localization,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tonghuan Xiao , Jiecheng Zhou

For large-scale Internet of Things (IoT), backscatter communication is a promising technology to reduce power consumption and simplify deployment. However, backscatter communication lacks stability, along with limited communication range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Gang Huang , Panlong Yang , Xin He , Yubo Yan , Hao Zhou , Xiangyang Li , Pengjun Wan

Eavesdropping on voice conversations presents a growing threat to personal privacy and information security. In this paper, we present RadEar, a novel RF backscatter-based system designed to enable covert voice eavesdropping through walls.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Qijun Wang , Peihao Yan , Chunqi Qian , Huacheng Zeng

Software-defined radios (SDRs) are often used in the experimental evaluation of next-generation wireless technologies. While crowd-sourced spectrum monitoring is an important component of future spectrum-agile technologies, there is no…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Phillip Smith , Anh Luong , Shamik Sarkar , Harsimran Singh , Neal Patwari , Sneha Kasera , Kurt Derr , Samuel Ramirez

Scatter radio, i.e., communication by means of reflection, has been recently proposed as a viable ultra-low power solution for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This work offers a detailed comparison between monostatic and multistatic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Panos N. Alevizos , Konstantinos Tountas , Aggelos Bletsas

Ambient backscatter communication technology has been introduced recently, and is then quickly becoming a promising choice for self-sustainable communication systems as an external power supply or a dedicated carrier emitter is not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Dong In Kim , Yong Xiao , Zhu Han

In tracing the (robotically automated) logistics of large quantities of goods, inexpensive passive RFID tags are preferred for cost reasons. Accordingly, security between such tags and readers have primarily been studied among many issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Hiroshi Watanabe , Kenji Saito , Satoshi Miyazaki , Toshiharu Okada , Hiroyuki Fukuyama , Tsuneo Kato , Katsuo Taniguchi

Backscattering tag-to-tag networks (BTTNs) represent a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system that enables direct communication between tags within an external radio frequency (RF) field. However, low spectral efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

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

We propose a robust spectrum sensing framework based on deep learning. The received signals at the secondary user's receiver are filtered, sampled and then directly fed into a convolutional neural network. Although this deep sensing is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Qihang Peng , Andrew Gilman , Nuno Vasconcelos , Pamela C. Cosman , Laurence B. Milstein

A new frequency switching receiver structure is proposed for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer in multi-carrier communication systems. Each subcarrier is switched to either the energy harvesting unit or the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dogay Altinel , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Randomized backoff protocols, such as exponential backoff, are a powerful tool for managing access to a shared resource, often a wireless communication channel (e.g., [1]). For a wireless device to transmit successfully, it uses a backoff…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Michael A. Bender , Seth Gilbert , Fabian Kuhn , John Kuszmaul , Muriel Médard

Backscatter communication offers a promising solution to connect massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low cost and high energy efficiency. Nevertheless, its inherently passive nature limits transmission reliability, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hao Chen , Zhizhi Huang , Ying-Chang Liang , Robert Schober

We study a backscatter communication protocol over a AWGN channel, where a transmitter illuminates a tag with a directional multi-antenna. The tag performs load modulation on the signal while hiding its physical presence from a warden. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Roberto Di Candia , Saneea Malik , Huseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti

Multiple-antenna backscatter is emerging as a promising approach to offer high communication performance for the data-intensive applications of ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). Although much has been understood about…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Zhiang Niu , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

Backscatter communication is a burgeoning low-power communication technology that has been introduced into the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its excellent self-sustainability. However, conventional backscatter communication (BackCom)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Weilin Chen

Cognitive radio is an intelligent radio that can be programmed and configured dynamically to fully use the frequency resources that are not used by licensed users. It defines the radio devices that are capable of learning and adapting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Peter Hossain , Adaulfo Komisarczuk , Garin Pawetczak , Sarah Van Dijk , Isabella Axelsen

Ambient backscatter communications is an emerging paradigm and a key enabler for pervasive connectivity of low-powered wireless devices. It is primarily beneficial in the Internet of things (IoT) and the situations where computing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Furqan Jameel , Tapani Ristaniemi , Imran Khan , Byung Moo Lee

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…