BackFi: High throughput WiFi backscatter

SIGCOMM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 283-296

  Bharadiay, Dinesh ^b   Joshiy, Kiran ^b   Kotaru, Manikanta ^a   Katti, Sachin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Co Primary ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient backscatter; Backscatter communication; Backscatter decoder; Full duplex backscatter; Internet of things (ioT); WiFi backscatter

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERNET OF THINGS; THROUGHPUT;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; COMMUNICATION RATE; EXCITATION SIGNALS; FULL-DUPLEX; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LONG-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSMITTING DATA;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 84962225746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2785956.2787490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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