Increased range bistatic scatter radio

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1091-1104

  Kimionis, John ^a   Bletsas, Aggelos ^a   Sahalos, John N ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bistatic scatter radio; modulation schemes; software defined radio; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; RADIO LINKS; SOFTWARE RADIO;

BISTATIC; COMMODITY SOFTWARE; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; LOW-POWER RF FRONT-ENDS; MODULATION SCHEMES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84897563738     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.020314.130559     Document Type: Article

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