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Accurate time synchronization is essential for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where multiple distributed nodes must share a common time base for coordinated sensing and data fusion. However, conventional synchronization approaches suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziyao Zhou , Tiancheng Cao , Chen Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuting Liu , Hen-Wei Huang

The era of ubiquitous, affordable wireless connectivity has opened doors to countless practical applications. In this context, ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) stands out, utilizing passive tags to establish connections with readers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 S. Zargari , A. Hakimi , C. Tellambura , A. Maaref

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

Symbiotic radio (SR) backscatter systems are possible techniques for the future low-power wireless communications for Internet of Things devices. In this paper, we propose a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) SR backscatter system, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Tuo Wu , Miao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Quanzhong Li , Jiayin Qin

Recently, cellular Ambient Backscattering has been proposed for cellular networks. Up to now an Ambient backscatter device, called zero-energy device or tag, broadcasted its message by backscattering ambient downlink waves from the closest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ahmed ElSanhoury , Islam Galal , Khaled AlKady , Aml ElKhodary , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy , Ayman M. Hassan

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yifan Zhang , Yu Bai , Riku Jantti , Zheng Yan , Christos Masouros , Zhu Han

In bi-static Ambient Backscatter Communications (AmBC) systems, the direct path from the ambient source to the receiver can be several orders of magnitude stronger than the scattered path modulated by the AmBC device. Because of the large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Menta , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Riku Jäntti , Zhu Han

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

Tag signal detection is one of the key tasks in ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems. However, obtaining perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging and costly, which makes AmBC systems suffer from a high bit error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Chang Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang

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

Timing detection is the first step and very important in wireless communication systems. Timing detection performance is usually affected by the frequency offset. Therefore, it is a challenge to design the synchronization signal in massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-02 Jun Zou

Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks are expected to support the wireless connection of massive energy limited IoT nodes. The emerging wireless powered backscatter communications (WPBC) enable IoT nodes to harvest energy from the incident…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Haohang Yang , Yinghui Ye , Kai Liang , Xiaoli Chu

In digital communication systems different clock frequencies of transmitter and receiver usually is translated into cycle slips. Receivers might experience different sampling frequencies from transmitter due to manufacturing imperfection,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Somaye Bazin , Mahmoud Ferdosizade Naeiny , Roya Khanzade

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

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) using power-domain with backscatter sensor communication (BSC) is expected to connect a large-scale Internet of things (IoT) devices in future sixth-generation (6G) era. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Manzoor Ahmed , Wali Ullah Khan , Asim Ihsan , Xingwang Li , Jianbo Li , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power connectivity by allowing passive backscatter devices (BDs) to convey information through reflection of ambient signals. However, the cascaded AmBC channel suffers from severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

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

Enabling bistatic radar sensing within the context of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for future sixth generation mobile networks demands strict synchronization accuracy, which is particularly challenging to be achieved with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Lucas Giroto de Oliveira , Yueheng Li , Silvio Mandelli , David Brunner , Marcus Henninger , Xiang Wan , Tie Jun Cui , Thomas Zwick , Benjamin Nuss

We consider a molecular communication system comprised of a transmitter, an absorbing receiver, and an interference source. Assuming amplitude modulation, we analyze the dependence of the bit error rate (BER) on the detection interval,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Trang Ngoc Cao , Nikola Zlatanov , Phee Lep Yeoh , Jamie S. Evans

Backscatter communication holds potential for ubiquitous and low-cost connectivity among low-power IoT devices. To avoid interference between the carrier signal and the backscatter signal, recent works propose a frequency-shifting technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiuzhen Guo , Longfei Shangguan , Yuan He , Jia Zhang , Haotian Jiang , Awais Ahmad Siddiqi , Yunhao Liu