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 …

Harvesting wireless power: Survey of energy-harvester conversion efficiency in far-field, wireless power transfer systems

CR Valenta, GD Durgin - IEEE microwave magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea of wireless power transfer (WPT) has been around since the inception of electricity.
In the late 19th century, Nikola Tesla described the freedom to transfer energy between two …

—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 …

Security analysis of triangle channel-based physical layer key generation in wireless backscatter communications

J Li, P Wang, L Jiao, Z Yan, K Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power communications by
backscattering ambient radio frequency (RF) signals and harvesting energy simultaneously …

RFID backscattering in long-range scenarios

F Amato, HM Torun, GD Durgin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 5.8-GHz RFID tag that, by exploiting the quantum tunneling effect,
significantly increases the range of backscatter radio links. We present an electronically …

Space time coding for backscatter RFID

C Boyer, S Roy - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the use of Space-Time Codes in passive Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)
systems is explored; this is feasible whenever a tag possesses multiple antennas …

Multipath fading measurements at 5.8 GHz for backscatter tags with multiple antennas

JD Griffin, GD Durgin - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multipath fading can be heavy for ultra-high frequency (UHF) and microwave backscatter
radio systems used in applications such as radio frequency identification (RFID). This paper …

Multi-antenna techniques for enabling passive RFID tags and sensors at microwave frequencies

MS Trotter, CR Valenta, GA Koo… - … Conference on RFID …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-antenna techniques are typically avoided in passive RFID because of the large
footprints required. However, the smaller footprints required at microwave frequencies such …

Polarization Diversity and Transfer Learning Based Modulation Optimization for High-Speed Dual Channel MIMO Backscatter Communication

H Jeong, N Ha, A Georgiadis… - IEEE Internet of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel approach to address the challenges in backscatter
communication (BackCom) for the Internet of Things. The traditional use of I/Q load …

Spatial fading in backscatter channels: Theory and models

M Alhassoun, GD Durgin - 2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some promising technologies such as Internet-of-things (IoT) communicate by means of
backscattered power to minimize power consumption. In backscatter-based …