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Indoor beacon system is a cornerstone of internet of things. Until now, most of the research effort has focused on achieving various applications based on beacon communication. However, the power consumption on beacon devices becomes the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Qingzhi Liu , Wieger IJntema , Anass Drif , Przemysław Pawełczak , Marco Zuniga

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

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a short-range data transmission technology that is used for multimedia file sharing, home automation, and internet-of-things application. In this work, we perform packet error rate (PER) measurement and RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Mir Lodro , Gabriele Gradoni , Ana Vukovic , David Thomas , Steve Greedy

One significant challenge in research is to collect a large amount of data and learn the underlying relationship between the input and the output variables. This paper outlines the process of collecting and validating a dataset designed to…

This paper presents a novel channel-estimation (CE) method that mitigates residual phase drifts in backscatter links and a full hardware and signal-processing pipeline for a single-antenna monostatic system. The platform comprises a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Hanyeol Ryu , Sangkil Kim

Low-power ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) relying on radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting is an energy-efficient solution for batteryless Internet of things (IoT). However, ambient backscatter signals are severely faded by dyadic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Tae Yeong Kim , Dong In Kim

BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) is a new wireless communication technology that, thanks to reduced power consumption, promises to facilitate communication between computing devices and help us harness their power in environments and contexts…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Tommy Nilsson , Alan Blackwell , Carl Hogsden , David Scruton

The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Xi Weng , Lingyang Song

This paper presents RF-Transformer, a unified backscatter radio hardware abstraction that allows a low-power IoT device to directly communicate with heterogeneous wireless receivers at the minimum power consumption. Unlike existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiuzhen Guo , Yuan He , Zihao Yu , Jiacheng Zhang , Yunhao Liu , Longfei Shangguan

Bluetooth Core Specification v6.0 introduces Channel Sounding (CS) as a standardized high-accuracy ranging primitive for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). However, standard CS usage remains tied to per-pair LE asynchronous connection logical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Leon Schex , Markus Cremer , Uwe Dettmar

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

The potential of Wi-Fi backscatter communications systems is immense, yet challenges such as signal instability and energy constraints impose performance limits. This paper introduces FlexScatter, a Wi-Fi backscatter system using a designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xin He , Jingwen Xie , Aohua Zhang , Weiwei Jiang , Yujun Zhu , Tad Matsumoto

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is rapidly growing in wireless technology, aiming to connect vast numbers of devices to gather and distribute vital information. Despite individual devices having low energy consumption, the cumulative demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shayan Zargari , Azar Hakimi , Fatemeh Rezaei , Chintha Tellambura , Amine Maaref

With the increasing number of sensors in modern vehicles, using an Intra-Vehicular Wireless Sensor Network (IVWSN) is a possible solution for the automotive industry to address the potential issues that arise from additional wiring harness.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jiun-Ren Lin , Timothy Talty , Ozan K. Tonguz

Backscatter is an enabling technology for battery-free sensing in today's Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIOT). Building a backscatter-based sensing system, however, is a daunting task, due to two obstacles: the unaffordable power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xin Na , Xiuzhen Guo , Zihao Yu , Jia Zhang , Yuan He , Yunhao Liu

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Tongyang Xu , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

Social networks have an important role in an individual's health, with the propagation of health-related features through a network, and correlations between network structures and symptomatology. Using Bluetooth-enabled smartphones to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Samuel Townsend , Mark E. Larsen , Tjeerd W. Boonstra , Helen Christensen

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

The growth in the number of low-cost narrow band radios such as Bluetooth low energy (BLE) enabled applications such as asset tracking, human behavior monitoring, and keyless entry. The accurate range estimation is a must in such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Alireza Sheikh , Jac Romme , Jochem Govers , Amirashkan Farsaei , Christian Bachmann

Visible light communication (VLC) backscatter has been proposed as a wireless access option for Internet of Things (IoT). However, the throughput of the state-of-the-art VLC backscatter is limited by simple single-carrier pulsed modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Hany Elgala