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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

Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

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

Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) have arisen as a promising communication technology for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) services due to their low power operation, wide coverage range, low cost and scalability. However, most LPWAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Sergio Barrachina , Boris Bellalta , Toni Adame , Albert Bel

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

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

Continuous energy monitoring is essential for identifying potential savings and predicting the energy requirements of buildings. Energy meters are often located in underground spaces that are difficult to reach with wireless technology.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Christof Röhrig , Benz Cramer

Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), recently standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), demands a low-power wide-area communication solution that operates several orders of magnitude below the power requirements of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jingyi Liao , Tianshu Zhang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jäntti , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

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

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

Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wireless systems. However, this promise is fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haohao Zhang , Bowen Gu , Xianhua Yu , Hao Xie , Liejun Wang , Yongjun Xu , Xiaoming Tao , Haijun Zhang

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

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

The vision of seamlessly integrating information transfer (IT) and microwave based power transfer (PT) in the same system has led to the emergence of a new research area, called wirelessly power communications (WPC). Extensive research has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kaibin Huang , Caijun Zhong , Guangxu Zhu

Bluetooth backscatter systems, as a crucial technology for low-power communication in the Internet of Things (IoT), have witnessed remarkable development in recent years. This article comprehensively analyzes multiple related papers,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingyun Du

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Qingqing Wu , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have been used to support low cost and mobile bi-directional communications for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart city and a wide range of industrial applications. A primary security concern of LPWAN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Debraj Basu , Tianbo Gu , Prasant Mohapatra

The recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables the possibility of data collection from diverse environments using IoT devices. However, despite the rapid advancement of low-power communication technologies, the deployment of…

For large-scale Internet of Things (IoT), backscatter communication is a promising technology to reduce power consumption and simplify deployment. However, backscatter communication lacks stability, along with limited communication range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Gang Huang , Panlong Yang , Xin He , Yubo Yan , Hao Zhou , Xiangyang Li , Pengjun Wan

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) over orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) signals has recently been proposed as an appealing technique for low power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. The special spectrum structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Mahyar Nemati , Morteza Soltani , Jie Ding , Jinho Choi