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Backscatter communication, relying on the reflection principle, constitutes a promising-enabling technology for lowcost, large-scale, ubiquitous sensor networking. This work makes an overview of the state-of-the-art coherent and noncoherent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Panos N. Alevizos , Aggelos Bletsas

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

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…

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 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

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

Continued progress towards energy-neutral Internet of Things (IoT) nodes expose the wireless communication link as the dominant energy bottleneck. While low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies achieve long-range communication with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Tijl Schepens , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre

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

Next-generation wireless networks are projected to empower a broad range of Internet-of-things (IoT) applications and services with extreme data rates, posing new challenges in delivering large-scale connectivity at a low cost to current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Thai-Hoc Vu , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Bao Vo Nguyen Quoc , Sunghwan Kim

Internet-of-Things (IoT) is featured with low-power communications among a massive number of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, e.g., sensors and actuators. To cope with the demand, wireless-powered cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Hai Jiang , Ekram Hossain , Ping Wang

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

The success of Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm relies on, among other things, developing energy-efficient communication techniques that can enable information exchange among billions of battery-operated IoT devices. With its technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 J. Kartheek Devineni , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

This review investigates the pivotal role of distributed architectures and intelligent resource allocation in enabling robust and scalable wireless systems, with a particular emphasis on backscatter communication, indoor localization,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tonghuan Xiao , Jiecheng Zhou

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

The integration of security and energy efficiency in Internet of Things systems remains a critical challenge, particularly for battery-free and resource-constrained devices. This paper explores the scalability and protocol-agnostic nature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Taki Eddine Djidjekh , Gaël Loubet , Alexandru Takacs

As a key low-power communication technique, backscatter communication has received significant attention since the rising of the Internet of Things (IoT). We revisit the state-of-the-art backscatter system, RBLE [1]. It solves several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Bohan Lou

In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices. Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter ambient waves to communicate, and are detected simultaneously by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 D. -T. Phan-Huy , D. Barthel , P. Ratajczak , R. Fara , M. di Renzo , J. de Rosny

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

One of the key challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to sustainably power the large number of IoT devices in real-time. In this paper, we consider a wireless power transfer (WPT) scenario between an energy transmitter (ET) capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato