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There is a growing demand for ultra low power and ultra low complexity devices for applications which require maintenance-free and battery-less operation. One way to serve such applications is through backscatter devices, which communicate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Rohit Singh , Anil Kumar Yerrapragada , Radha Krishna Ganti

Backscatter Communication (BackCom) nodes harvest energy from and modulate information over external carriers. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) adapts phase shift response to alter channel strength in specific directions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yang Zhao , Bruno Clerckx

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of backscatter technologies that realize the ubiquitous and long-term connectivity to empower smart cities and smart homes. Localizing such backscatter tags is crucial for IoT-based smart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Sheyang Tang , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang

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

The WiFi backscatter communications offer ultra-low power and ubiquitous connections for IoT systems. Caused by the intermittent-nature of the WiFi traffics, state-of-the-art WiFi backscatter communications are not reliable for backscatter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Xin He , Weiwei Jiang , Meng Cheng , Xiaobo Zhou , Peng-Jun Wan , Panlong Yang , Brian Kurkoski

Informally, a grassroots system is a distributed system that can have multiple instances, independent of each other and of any global resources, that can interoperate once interconnected. Grassroots applications are potentially important as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ehud Shapiro

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

Backscatter Communication (BackCom), which is based on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged as a cutting-edge technological paradigm for self-sustainable Internet-of-things (IoT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

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

Bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) allows passive tags to transmit over extended ranges, but at the cost of having carrier emitters either transmitting at high powers or being deployed very close to tags. In this paper, we examine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Jun Zhao

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 2016-04-12 Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

Backscatter communication offers a promising solution to connect massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low cost and high energy efficiency. Nevertheless, its inherently passive nature limits transmission reliability, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hao Chen , Zhizhi Huang , Ying-Chang Liang , Robert Schober

Considering the exponential growth of Internet-of-Things devices and the goals toward sustainable networks, the complexity should be focused on the infrastructure side. For a massive number of passive devices, backscatter communication (BC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we present an experimental setup to evaluate the performance of a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We focus on both the communication and sensing capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Tongyang Xu

Relay-enabled backscatter communication (BC) is an intriguing paradigm to alleviate energy shortage and improve throughput of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Most of the existing works focus on the resource allocation that considered the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Rui Xu , Liqin Shi , Yinghui Ye , Haijian Sun , Gan Zheng

Due to the practical challenges in the deployment of existing half-duplex systems, the promise of ubiquitous backscatter connectivity has eluded us. To address this, we design the first long-range full-duplex LoRa backscatter reader. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mohamad Katanbaf , Anthony Weinand , Vamsi Talla

We present the first wireless protocol that scales to hundreds of concurrent transmissions from backscatter devices. Our key innovation is a distributed coding mechanism that works below the noise floor, operates on backscatter devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Mehrdad Hessar , Ali Najafi , Shyamnath Gollakota

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

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

Backscatter communication has attracted significant attention for Internet-of-Things applications due to its ultra-low-power consumption. The state-of-the-art backscatter systems no longer require dedicated carrier generators and leverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qiwei Wang , Wei Gong