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 …

Coding techniques for backscatter communications—A contemporary survey

F Rezaei, D Galappaththige… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Backscatter communication (BackCom) networks enable passive/battery-free Internet-of-
Thing devices, providing reliable, massive connectivity while ensuring self-sustainability, low …

Large intelligent surface/antennas (LISA): Making reflective radios smart

YC Liang, R Long, Q Zhang, J Chen… - Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large intelligent surface/antennas (LISA), a two-dimensional artificial structure with a large
number of reflective-surface/antenna elements, is a promising reflective radio technology to …

Lora backscatter: Enabling the vision of ubiquitous connectivity

V Talla, M Hessar, B Kellogg, A Najafi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The vision of embedding connectivity into billions of everyday objects runs into the reality of
existing communication technologies--there is no existing wireless technology that can …

A survey of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs): Towards 6G wireless communication networks

J Zhao - arxiv preprint arxiv:1907.04789, 2019 - arxiv.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and
energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising …

PLoRa: A passive long-range data network from ambient LoRa transmissions

Y Peng, L Shangguan, Y Hu, Y Qian, X Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents PLoRa, an ambient backscatter design that enables long-range
wireless connectivity for batteryless IoT devices. PLoRa takes ambient LoRa transmissions …

Cooperative ambient backscatter communications for green Internet-of-Things

G Yang, Q Zhang, YC Liang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables a passive backscatter device to
transmit information to a reader using ambient RF signals, and has emerged as a promising …

Backfi: High throughput wifi backscatter

D Bharadia, KR Joshi, M Kotaru, S Katti - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present BackFi, a novel communication system that enables high throughput, long range
communication between very low power backscatter devices and WiFi APs using ambient …

Symbiotic radio: A new communication paradigm for passive Internet of Things

R Long, YC Liang, H Guo, G Yang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a symbiotic radio (SR) system is proposed to support passive Internet of
Things (IoT), in which a backscatter device (BD), also called IoT device, is parasitic in a …

Passive {Wi-Fi}: Bringing Low Power to {Wi-Fi} Transmissions

B Kellogg, V Talla, S Gollakota, JR Smith - 13th USENIX Symposium on …, 2016 - usenix.org
Wi-Fi has traditionally been considered a power-consuming communication system and has
not been widely adopting in the sensor network and IoT space. We introduce Passive Wi-Fi …