Next generation backscatter communication: systems, techniques, and applications

The rapid growth of IoT driven by recent advancements in consumer electronics, 5G communication technologies, and cloud-computing-enabled big data analytics, has recently attracted tremendous attention from both the industry and academia. One of the major open challenges for IoT is the limited netwo...

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Published inEURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking Vol. 2019; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors Liu, Wanchun, Huang, Kaibin, Zhou, Xiangyun, Durrani, Salman
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 18.03.2019
Springer Nature B.V
SpringerOpen
Subjects
Analytics
Backscatter communication
Backscattering
Batteries
Cloud computing
Communications Engineering
Data management
Engineering
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
IoT
Networks
Radio frequency
Review
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Wireless power transfer
Wireless sensor network
Wirelessly powered network
Wireless sensor network
Wireless power transfer
Wirelessly powered network
Backscatter communication
IoT
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Summary:The rapid growth of IoT driven by recent advancements in consumer electronics, 5G communication technologies, and cloud-computing-enabled big data analytics, has recently attracted tremendous attention from both the industry and academia. One of the major open challenges for IoT is the limited network lifetime due to massive IoT devices being powered by batteries with finite capacities. The low-power and low-complexity backscatter communications (BackCom), which simply relies on passive reflection and modulation of an incident radio-frequency (RF) wave, has emerged to be a promising technology for tackling this challenge. However, the contemporary BackCom has several major limitations, such as short transmission range, low data rate, and uni-directional information transmission. The article aims at introducing the recent advances in the active area of BackCom. Specifically, we provide a systematic introduction of the next generation BackCom covering basic principles, systems, techniques besides IoT applications. Lastly, we describe the IoT application scenarios with the next generation BackCom.
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ISSN:1687-1499
1687-1472
1687-1499
DOI:10.1186/s13638-019-1391-7