RIS-empowered ambient backscatter communication systems

DL Galappaththige, F Rezaei… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive tags must harvest sufficient energy to operate. However, ensuring the tag's energy
needs and simultaneously suppressing the interference in ambient backscatter systems is …

Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted bistatic backscatter networks: Joint beamforming and reflection design

X Jia, X Zhou, D Niyato, J Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided backscatter communications

X Jia, J Zhao, X Zhou, D Niyato - GLOBECOM 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a novel system setup where a backscatter device operates in the presence of
an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). In particular, we study the bistatic backscatter …

Backscatter communication assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

YC Liang, Q Zhang, J Wang, R Long… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a backscatter communication system, the backscatter device (BD) transmits its messages
to the backscatter receiver (BR) by reflecting the incident signal from an external radio …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided phase-shift backscatter communication

SY Park, DI Kim - 2020 14th International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a 2D surface made up of metasurface, on which passive
elements such as varactor diodes interact with incoming electromagnetic waves and …

Signal detection and optimal antenna selection for ambient backscatter communications with multi-antenna tags

C Chen, G Wang, PD Diamantoulakis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter devices (tags and readers) use existing radio frequency (RF) signals to
transmit data. Most prior works consider single-antenna tags, but this paper investigates the …

Design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-boosted ambient backscatter systems

S Idrees, X Jia, S Durrani, X Zhou - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive technologies like ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) and intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) hold enormous potential for ubiquitous connectivity of Internet of …

Channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface assisted backscatter communication

S Abeywickrama, C You, R Zhang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of
backscatter communication systems by smartly reconfiguring the multi-reflection channel. To …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface with energy harvesting assisted cooperative ambient backscatter communications

H Ma, H Zhang, N Zhang, J Wang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of cooperative ambient backscatter communications (CABC) can be
enhanced by employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to assist backscatter …

Hybrid ambient backscatter communication systems with harvest-then-transmit protocols

D Li, W Peng, YC Liang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate and analyze a hybrid ambient backscatter (AmBack) scheme
with harvest-then-transmit protocols. In this scheme, the whole transmission is divided into …