Phase Cancellation in Backscatter-Based Tag-To-Tag Communication Systems

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 959-970

  Shen, Zhe ^a,b   Athalye, Akshay ^a,c   Djuric, Petar M ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c Scandent LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiphase backscatter; phase cancellation; RF identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

BACKSCATTER MODULATION; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; COMMUNICATION RANGE; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL EXCITATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CANCELLATION; RF IDENTIFICATIONS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 85010060298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23274662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2016.2533398     Document Type: Article

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