Backscatter communications: Inception of the battery-free era—A comprehensive survey

ML Memon, N Saxena, A Roy, DR Shin - Electronics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ever increasing proliferation of wireless objects and consistent connectivity demands
are creating significant challenges for battery-constrained wireless devices. The vision of …

Reusing wireless power transfer for backscatter-assisted relaying in WPCNs

Y Zheng, S Bi, X Lin, H Wang - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
User cooperation is an effective technique to tackle the severe near-far user unfairness
problem in wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs). In this paper, we consider …

Cooperative relay strategy for backscatter communication networks with RF energy harvesting

D Munir, DM Mughal, ST Shah, MY Chung - Physical Communication, 2019 - Elsevier
Backscatter sensors have emerged as a viable option for battery-less wireless networks,
especially for the next generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. Due to its simple …