A software-defined radio system for backscatter sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2170-2179

  Vannucci, Giovanni ^a,b   Bletsas, Aggelos ^a,b   Leigh, Darren ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Fading channel; RFID; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; BACKSCATTERING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; EXTRACTION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO LINKS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SENSORS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

BIT RATE (BPP); CARRIER (CO); DATA EXTRACTION; LOW COST SENSORS; RADIO LINK; SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO (SDR); SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TRANSMISSION POWERS; WIRELESS (WIFI) COMMUNICATION;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 45849119876     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.060796     Document Type: Article

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