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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

In an era driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and rapid wireless communication advances, the synergy between sensing and backscatter communication (BackCom) has emerged as a frontier of research. This paper delves deep into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Shayan Zargari , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura

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

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

WiFi is inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping because RF signals may penetrate many physical boundaries, such as walls and floors. LiFi, by contrast, is an optical method confined to line-of-sight and blocked by opaque surfaces. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shiqi Xu , Yuyang Du , Mingyue Zhang , Hongwei Cui , Soung Chang Liew

Backscatter is a key technology for battery-free sensing in industrial IoT applications. To fully cover numerous tags in the deployment area, one often needs to deploy multiple readers, each of which communicates with tags within its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yang Zou , Xin Na , Yimiao Sun , Yuan He

Battery-free Internet of Things (BF-IoT) enabled by backscatter communication is a rapidly evolving technology offering advantages of low cost, ultra-low power consumption, and robustness. However, the practical deployment of BF-IoT is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Taorui Liu , Xu Liu , Zhiquan Xu , Houfeng Chen , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Backscatter system is a system based on backscatter communication technology, which is a low cost, low power consumption and easy to deploy communication technology. At present, the backscatter technology is mainly applied to RFID tags and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jincheng Guan , Jun Zhang

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

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

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Romain Fara , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien de Rosny

The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yang Liu

In this paper, a sub-uW power 802.11b backscattering transmitter is presented to enable reuse of the same incident wave for three purposes: RF harvesting, backscattering communications and position/motion sensing. The removal of the battery…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Marco Privitera , Andrea Ballo , Karim Ali Ahmed , Alfio Dario Grasso , Massimo Alioto

We introduce inter-technology backscatter, a novel approach that transforms wireless transmissions from one technology to another, on the air. Specifically, we show for the first time that Bluetooth transmissions can be used to create Wi-Fi…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Vikram Iyer , Vamsi Talla , Bryce Kellogg , Shyamnath Gollakota , Joshua R. Smith

Unlike conventional anti-eavesdropping methods that always require additional energy or computing resources (e.g., in friendly jamming and cryptography-based solutions), this work proposes a novel anti-eavesdropping solution that comes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nguyen Van Huynh , Nguyen Quang Hieu , Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to wirelessly connect billions of low-complexity devices. For wireless information transfer (WIT) in IoT, high density of IoT devices and their ad hoc communication result in strong interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

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

The rapid growth of IoT driven by recent advancements in consumer electronics, 5G communication technologies, and cloud-computing enabled big-data analytics, has recently attracted tremendous attention from both the industry and academia.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Wanchun Liu , Kaibin Huang , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani

Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

Recent advances in backscatter open a promising direction for ultra-low power communication. However, the state-of-art ZigBee backscatter system, Interscatter, has several drawbacks to deploy. Its backscatter tag and exciting source,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Zhaoyuan Xu , Wei Gong