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This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with backscattering RFID tags. In this setup, an access point employs communication beams to serve communication users while leveraging a sensing beam to interrogate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Hao Luo , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Wirelessly powered backscatter communication (WPBC) has been identified as a promising technology for low-power communication systems, which can reap the benefits of energy beamforming to improve energy transfer efficiency. Existing studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wenyuan Ma , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

In the present contribution, we propose a novel opportunistic ambient backscatter communication (ABC) framework for radio frequency (RF)-powered cognitive radio (CR) networks. This framework considers opportunistic spectrum sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Rajalekshmi Kishore , Sanjeev Gurugopinath , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Sami Muhaidat , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Accurate orientation estimation of objects can aid in scene understanding in many applications. In this paper, we consider use cases where passive tags could be deployed to assist radar systems in estimating object orientation. Towards that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Onel L. A. López , Zhu Han , Ashutosh Sabharwal

In ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems, passive tags connect to a reader by reflecting an ambient radio frequency (RF) signal. However, the reader may not know the channel states and RF source parameters. The traditional energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 S. Zargari , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref

Ambient backscatter communications have been introduced as low-power communications for green networking. This technology is very promising as it recycles ambient radio frequency waves, however such systems have limitations and suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Nada Bel-Haj-Maati , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Nadine Malhouroux , Marco Di Renzo

In this work, we consider a backscatter communication system wherein multiple asynchronous sources (tags) exploit the reverberation generated by a nearby radar transmitter as an ambient carrier to deliver a message to a common destination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Jeremy Johnston , Marco Lops , Xiaodong Wang

This article proposes a novel strategy for enhancing secure wireless communication through the use of a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) in a multiple-input single-output system. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Zahra Rostamikafaki , Francois Chan , Claude D'Amours

Bistatic backscatter communication facilitates ubiquitous, massive connectivity of passive tags for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The tags communicate with readers by reflecting carrier emitter (CE) signals. This work addresses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 S. Zargari , D. Galappaththige , C. Tellambura

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

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

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

This paper addresses the problem of outage characterization of an ambient backscatter communication system with a pair of passive tag and reader. In particular, an exact expression for the effective channel distribution is derived. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Chintha Tellambura

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

Ambient Backscatter Communication (AmBC) is an emerging communication technology that can enable green Internet-of-Things deployments. The widespread acceptance of this paradigm is limited by low Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Xiyu Wang , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Yohannes Menta , Riku Jäntti

In this paper, the adoption of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multiple single-antenna source terminal (ST)-DT pairs in two-hop networks is investigated. Different from the previous studies on IRS that merely focused on tuning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Yue Xiao , Dusit Niyato

In this work, we employ multiple energy harvesting relays to assist information transmission from a multi-antenna hybrid access point (HAP) to a receiver. All the relays are wirelessly powered by the HAP in the power-splitting (PS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yuze Zou , Dinh Thai Hoang , Jing Xu , Wenqing Cheng , Dusit Niyato

This study introduces and investigates the integration of a cell-free architecture with bistatic backscatter communication (BiBC), referred to as cell-free BiBC or distributed access point (AP)-assisted BiBC, which can enable potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Diluka Galappaththige , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

In this paper, we consider the downlink of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) single user transmission system operating in the millimeter wave outdoor narrowband channel environment. We propose a novel receive spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ahmed Raafat , Adrian Agustin , Josep Vidal

Ambient backscatter (AB) communication is an emerging wireless communication technology that enables wireless devices (WDs) to communicate without requiring active radio transmission. In an AB communication system, a WD switches between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Xiaokang Wen , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Lina Yuan , Juan Wang