BackFi: High Throughput WiFi Backscatter

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 283-296

  Bharadia, Dinesh ^a   Joshi, Kiran Raj ^a   Kotaru, Manikanta ^a   Katti, Sachin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient backscatter; Backscatter communication; Backscatter decoder; Full duplex backscatter; Internet of things (iot); Wifi backscatter

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; COMMUNICATION RATE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXCITATION SIGNALS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; LONG-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSMITTING DATA;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 85014567008     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2785956.2787490     Document Type: Article

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