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As a key enabling technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G communication networks, millimeter wave (mmWave) backscatter has undergone noteworthy advancements and brought significant improvement to prevailing sensing and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Yang Zou , Jiaming Gu , Xiaolei Yang , Jia Zhang , Ziheng Mao

The boom of the Internet of Things has revolutionized people's lives, but it has also resulted in massive resource consumption and environmental pollution. Recently, Green IoT (GIoT) has become a worldwide consensus to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yimeng Huang , Lijie Liu , Jihong Yu , Yuguang Fang , Wei Gong

Wireless sensors in extreme environments such as underground, concrete wall, and the human body, can enable a large number of important applications. However, deploying wireless sensors in such environments on a large scale is a great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hongzhi Guo , Zhi Sun

Supply chain management is aimed to keep going long-term performance of the supply chain and minimize the costs. Backscatter technology provides a more efficient way of being able to identify items and real-time monitoring. Among the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-21 Yun-Hao Liu , Tao Liu , Yimeng Huang , Han Ding , Wei Xi , Wei Gong

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

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

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

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

Spectrum sharing backscatter communication systems are among the most prominent technologies for ultralow power and spectrum efficient communications. In this paper, we propose an underlay spectrum sharing backscatter communication system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper proposes to leverage intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter to realize radio-frequency-chain-free uplink-transmissions (RFCF-UT). In this communication paradigm, IRS works as an information carrier, whose elements are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Jiliang Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Jie Zhang

Ambient backscatter communications have been identified for ultra-low energy wireless communications. Indeed, a tag can send a message to a reader without emitting any wave and without battery, simply by backscattering the waves generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Jean-Marc Kelif , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

In this paper, we present the design of a scalable, distributed stream processing system for RFID tracking and monitoring. Since RFID data lacks containment and location information that is key to query processing, we propose to combine…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-24 Zhao Cao , Charles Sutton , Yanlei Diao , Prashant Shenoy

Attaining the vision of Smart Cities requires the deployment of an enormous number of sensors for monitoring various conditions of the environment. Backscatter-sensors have emerged to be a promising solution due to the uninterruptible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Guangxu Zhu , Seung-Woo Ko , Kaibin Huang

Computing has passed through many transformations since the birth of the first computing machines. Developments in technology have resulted in the availability of fast and inexpensive processors, and progresses in communication technology…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-24 Sabu M. Thampi

WiFi backscatter tags can enable direct connectivity of IoT devices with commodity WiFi hardware at low power. However, most state of the art backscatter tag implementations in this area have limited transmitter to tag range, are not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Manideep Dunna , Shihkai Kuo , Akshit Agarwal , Patrick Mercier , Dinesh Bharadia

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

Computer systems have evolved over the years starting from sizable, single-user, slow, and expensive machines to multi-user, fast, cheaper, and small-sized machines. The use of multi-user computer networks has given rise to a new paradigm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Aneesh Khole , Atharva Thakar , Avadhoot Kulkarni , Hrithik Jadhav , Shreyas Shende , Varad Karajkhede

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

Backscatter communication (BC) has emerged as a pivotal wireless communication paradigm owing to its low-power and cost-effective characteristics. However, BC faces various challenges from its low signal detection rate to its security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Zhao Li , Zheng Yan , Riku Jantti

As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances by leaps and bounds, a multitude of devices are becoming interconnected, marking the onset of an era where all things are connected. While this growth opens up opportunities for novel products and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Haiyang Ding , Gongpu Wang , Chintha Tellambura