Ambient Backscatter Communication Systems: Detection and Performance Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4836-4846

  Wang, Gongpu ^a   Gao, Feifei ^b   Fan, Rongfei ^c   Tellambura, Chintha ^d  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient backscatter; battery free tag; BER; maximum likelihood (ML) detection; RF powered device

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BATTERY-FREE; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENTIAL ENCODING; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DETECTION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POWERED DEVICES; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84999635224     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2602341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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