Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: An idea whose time has come

MD Renzo, M Debbah, DT Phan-Huy… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2019 - Springer
Future wireless networks are expected to constitute a distributed intelligent wireless
communications, sensing, and computing platform, which will have the challenging …

A survey on LoRa networking: Research problems, current solutions, and open issues

JPS Sundaram, W Du, Z Zhao - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless networks have been widely deployed for many Internet-of-Things (IoT)
applications, like smart cities and precision agriculture. Low Power Wide Area Networking …

Wireless networks design in the era of deep learning: Model-based, AI-based, or both?

A Zappone, M Di Renzo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with the use of emerging deep learning techniques in future wireless
communication networks. It will be shown that the data-driven approaches should not …

Understanding operational 5G: A first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

D Xu, A Zhou, X Zhang, G Wang, X Liu, C An… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential
for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed …

Hitchhike: Practical backscatter using commodity wifi

P Zhang, D Bharadia, K Joshi, S Katti - … of the 14th ACM conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present HitchHike, a low power backscatter system that can be deployed entirely using
commodity WiFi infrastructure. With HitchHike, a low power tag reflects existing 802.11 b …

Enabling practical backscatter communication for on-body sensors

P Zhang, M Rostami, P Hu, D Ganesan - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we look at making backscatter practical for ultra-low power on-body sensors by
leveraging radios on existing smartphones and wearables (eg WiFi and Bluetooth). The …

Practical backscatter communication systems for battery-free Internet of Things: A tutorial and survey of recent research

C Xu, L Yang, P Zhang - IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Backscatter presents an emerging ultralow-power wireless communication paradigm. The
ability to offer submilliwatt power consumption makes it a competitive core technology for …

Freerider: Backscatter communication using commodity radios

P Zhang, C Josephson, D Bharadia… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the design and implementation of FreeRider, the first system that enables
backscatter communication with multiple commodity radios, such as 802.11 g/n WiFi …

In-body backscatter communication and localization

D Vasisht, G Zhang, O Abari, HM Lu, J Flanz… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Backscatter requires zero transmission power, making it a compelling technology for in-body
communication and localization. It can significantly reduce the battery requirements (and …

LoRea: A backscatter architecture that achieves a long communication range

A Varshney, O Harms, C Pérez-Penichet… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
There is the long-standing assumption that radio communication in the range of hundreds of
meters needs to consume mWs of power at the transmitting device. In this paper, we …