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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

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

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as a key technology for future wireless communications. In this paper, we consider a downlink monostatic ISAC system wherein the base station serves multiple communications users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tianyu Fang , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) design is crucial for 6G and harmonizes environmental data sensing with communication, emphasizing the need to understand and model these elements. This paper delves into dual-channel models for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Alejandro Castilla , Saúl Fenollosa , Monika Drozdowska , Alejandro Lopez-Escudero , Sergio Micò-Rosa , Narcis Cardona

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power connectivity by allowing passive backscatter devices (BDs) to convey information through reflection of ambient signals. However, the cascaded AmBC channel suffers from severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is one of the usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we study cooperative ISAC in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Zihuan Wang , Vincent W. S. Wong

Cell-free networks are regarded as a promising technology to meet higher rate requirements for beyond fifth-generation (5G) communications. Most works on cell-free networks focus on either fully centralized beamforming to maximally enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Pengfei Ni , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

In this paper, we investigate a bistatic integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS), a multi-antenna sensing receiver, a single-antenna communication user (CU), and a point target to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Xianxin Song , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In a cell-free cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture, uplink channel estimation is carried out by a centralized baseband processing unit (BBU) connected to distributed remote radio heads (RRHs). When the RRHs have multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Yonina C. Eldar , Elza Erkip

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is pivotal for next-generation wireless networks, rendering the computation of rate-distortion trade-off in ISAC systems critically important. In this paper, we propose the extended Arimoto-Blahut…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tian Jiao , Yanlin Geng , Zhiqiang Wei , Zai Yang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems provide significant enhancements in performance and resource efficiency compared to individual sensing and communication systems, primarily attributed to the collaborative use of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jiayu Liu , Kai Wan , Xinping Yi , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) allows passive tags to transmit over extended ranges, but at the cost of having carrier emitters either transmitting at high powers or being deployed very close to tags. In this paper, we examine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Jun Zhao

Current backscatter channel estimators employ an inefficient silent pilot transmission protocol, where tags alternate between silent and active states. To enhance performance, we propose a novel approach where tags remain active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Fatemeh Rezaei , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

This paper considers an ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) network in which a full-duplex access point (FAP) simultaneously transmits downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals to its legacy user (LU) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Gang Yang , Dongdong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Rui Zhang , Victor C. M. Leung

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

We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. One critical challenge of AmBC systems is signal recovery because the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ranjan K. Mallik , Ross Murch

Cell-free networks are considered as a promising distributed network architecture to satisfy the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G systems. However, to further enhance network capacity, an increasing number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Shaocheng Huang , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor , Mikael Skoglund

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

Characterizing the fundamental energy efficiency (EE) limits of MIMO broadcast channels (BC) is significant for the development of green wireless communications. We address the EE optimization problem for MIMO-BC in this paper and consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Jie Xu , Ling Qiu