Enabling bit-by-bit backscatter communication in severe energy harvesting environments

Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 345-357

  Zhang, Pengyu ^a   Ganesan, Deepak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ENERGY HARVESTING; SOFTWARE RADIO; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; COMMUNICATION THROUGHPUTS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; ENERGY RESERVOIRS; LOW POWER NETWORKS; NETWORK STACK; POWERED DEVICES; WIRELESS SENSOR;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 85013148287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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