Ultra-wide bandwidth backscatter modulation: processing schemes and performance

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dardari, Davide ^a   Guidi, Francesco ^a,b   Roblin, Christophe ^b   Sibille, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

backscatter modulation; clutter suppression; RFID; UWB

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MODULATION; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; RADAR CLUTTER; RADIO SYSTEMS;

BACKSCATTER MODULATION; CLUTTER SUPPRESSION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION CAPABILITIES; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTIPLE ACCESS; NARROW BANDWIDTH; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84964273814     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2011-47     Document Type: Article

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