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Backscatter communication (BC) technology offers sustainable solutions for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, where devices can transmit data by reflecting and adjusting incident radio frequency signals. In parallel to BC,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Zain Ali , Asad Mahmood , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Manzoor Ahmed , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper presents a novel symbiotic radio system for integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) technique that enables signal-domain interference-free coexistence of the primary communication signal and the backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Katia Abtouche , Fikiri Salum Uledi , Ayoub Ammar Boudjelal , Muhammad Bilal Janjua , Zinat Behdad , Cicek Cavdar , Hüseyin Arslan

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

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

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) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. The key challenge in the development of AmBC is the very weak RF signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ross Murch

Ambient Internet of Things networks use low-cost, low-power backscatter tags in various industry applications. By exploiting those tags, we introduce the integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system, featuring multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 S. Zargari , D. Galappaththige , C. Tellambura

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) over orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) signals has recently been proposed as an appealing technique for low power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The special spectrum structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Mahyar Nemati , Morteza Soltani , Jie Ding , Jinho Choi

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication. Powering this massive number of embedded devices is a key challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

This paper studies the performance trade-off in a multi-user backscatter communication (BackCom) system for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), where the multi-antenna ISAC transmitter sends excitation signals to power multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanming Tian , Dan Wang , Chuan Huang , Wei Zhang

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

This paper investigates a dual-hop joint visible light communication (VLC) and backscatter communication (BC) relaying framework under the finite blocklength (FBL) constraint, aiming at energy-neutral Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Boxuan Xie , Lauri Mela , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Jiacheng Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti

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

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

An integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system is introduced herein. This system features a full-duplex (FD) base station (BS) that seamlessly merges sensing with backscatter communication and supports multiple users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Diluka Galappaththige , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

Backscatter communication is a hot candidate for future IoT systems. It offers the possibility for connectivity with tiny amounts of energy that can be easily obtained from energy harvesting. This is possible as backscatter devices do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Clemens Korn , Jörg Robert , Tobias Dräger

Symbiotic radio (SR) backscatter systems are possible techniques for the future low-power wireless communications for Internet of Things devices. In this paper, we propose a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) SR backscatter system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Tuo Wu , Miao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Quanzhong Li , Jiayin Qin

Backscatter communication which enables wireless-powered backscatter devices (BDs) to transmit information by reflecting incident signals, is an energy- and cost-efficient communication technology for Internet-of-Things. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Gang Yang , Rao Dai , Ying-Chang Liang

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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key technology of next generation wireless communication. Backscatter communication (BackCom) plays an important role for internet of things (IoT). Then the integration of ISAC with BackCom…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Zongyao Zhao , Tiankuo Wei , Zhenyu Liu , Xinke Tang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yuhan Dong