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Future wireless networks are expected to connect large-scale low-powered communication devices using the available spectrum resources. Backscatter communications (BC) is an emerging technology towards battery-free transmission in future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Zain Ali , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Octavia A. Dobre

We study RF-enabled wireless energy transfer (WET) via energy beamforming, from a multi-antenna energy transmitter (ET) to multiple energy receivers (ERs) in a backscatter communication system, such as RFID, where each ER (or RFID tag)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Gang Yang , Chin Keong Ho , Yong Liang Guan

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

This paper investigates the bit error rate (BER) and outage probability performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISaC) in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Haofeng Liu , Emad Alsusa , Arafat Al-Dweik

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

This paper presents a novel channel-estimation (CE) method that mitigates residual phase drifts in backscatter links and a full hardware and signal-processing pipeline for a single-antenna monostatic system. The platform comprises a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Hanyeol Ryu , Sangkil Kim

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

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

In this paper, we investigate and analyze full-duplex-based backscatter communications with multiple backscatter devices (BDs). Different from previous works where only the energy from the energy source is harvested, BDs are also allowed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Gu Bowen , Li Dong , Xu Yongjun , Li Chunguo , Sun Sumei

Ambient backscatter has been introduced with a wide range of applications for low power wireless communications. In this article, we propose an optimal and low-complexity dynamic spectrum access framework for RF-powered ambient backscatter…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang

Design of Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) for Maximum Likelihood (ML) reception has been predominantly the main focus of researchers. However, the ML decoding complexity of STBCs becomes prohibitive large as the number of transmit and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 G. Susinder Rajan , B. Sundar Rajan

Wireless power transfer has been proposed as a key technology for the foreseen machine type networks. A main challenge in the research community lies in acquiring a simple yet accurate model to capture the energy harvesting performance. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Eleni Demarchou , Zulqarnain Bin Ashraf , Dieff Vital , Besma Smida , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

In this paper, we investigate the secrecy energy-efficiency (SEE) of a multi-user downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system assisted by multiple ambient backscatter communications (AmBC) in the presence of a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Miled Alam , Abdul Karim Gizzini , Laurent Clavier

Rydberg atomic sensors have been adopted for novel radio frequency (RF) measurement technique and the sensing capability for signals in multiple frequencies makes it attractive for multi-user communication. However, unlike traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Hao Wu , Chongwu Xie , Xinyuan Yao , Kang-Da Wu , Shanchi Wu , Rui Ni , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chen Gong

Wirelessly powered backscatter communication (WPBC) has been identified as a promising technology for low-power communication systems, which can reap the benefits of energy beamforming to improve energy transfer efficiency. Existing studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wenyuan Ma , Wei Wang , Tao Jiang

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range multi-modal sensors. Limited range sensing environment arises in a sensing field prone to signal attenuation and path losses. The general problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-12 E. Ermis , V. Saligrama

Task-oriented integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) is a key technology for achieving low-latency edge inference and enabling efficient implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial cyber-physical systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang , Shuguang Cui

Synchronization is a fundamental enabler for low-power backscatter communication systems, where passive or semi-passive tags modulate ambient RF signals for ultra-low-power data transfer. In this survey, we review recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Wenyuan Jiang , Shuo Guo

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

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