Ambient backscatter communications: A contemporary survey

N Van Huynh, DT Hoang, X Lu, D Niyato… - … surveys & tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, ambient backscatter communication has been introduced as a cutting-edge
technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio …

An overview on backscatter communications

JP Niu, GY Li - Journal of communications and information …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key low-power communication technique, backscatter communications exploits the
reflected or backscattered signals to transmit data, where the backscattered signals can be …

—invited paper—backscatter communication and RFID: Coding, energy, and MIMO analysis

C Boyer, S Roy - IEEE Transactions on communications, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is intended to supplant legacy (optical) bar code
scanning technology found in many logistic and retail applications. RFID is distinguished by …

Architecture exploration for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors

K Ma, Y Zheng, S Li, K Swaminathan… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power
for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency …

Wireless-powered device-to-device communications with ambient backscattering: Performance modeling and analysis

X Lu, H Jiang, D Niyato, DI Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advanced wireless energy harvesting technology has enabled wireless-powered
communications to accommodate wireless data services in a self-sustainable manner …

Multi-antenna wireless energy transfer for backscatter communication systems

G Yang, CK Ho, YL Guan - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Come and be served: Parallel decoding for COTS RFID tags

J Ou, M Li, Y Zheng - Proceedings of the 21st annual international …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Current commodity RFID systems incur high communication overhead due to severe tag-to-
tag collisions. Although some recent works have been proposed to support parallel …

Optimal channel estimation for reciprocity-based backscattering with a full-duplex MIMO reader

D Mishra, EG Larsson - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Backscatter communication (BSC) technology can enable ubiquitous deployment of low-cost
sustainable wireless devices. In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of a full-duplex …

Ambient backscatter-assisted wireless-powered relaying

X Lu, D Niyato, H Jiang, E Hossain… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet-of-Things (IoT) features with low-power communications among a massive number
of ubiquitously-deployed and energy-constrained electronics, eg, sensors and actuators. To …

Optimal reflection coefficients for ASK modulated backscattering from passive tags

ACY Goay, D Mishra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies backscatter communication (BackCom) systems with a passive
backscatter tag. The effectiveness of these tags is limited by the amount of energy they can …