Modeling and performance analysis of wireless networks with ambient backscatter devices

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1797-1814

  Darsena, Donatella ^a   Gelli, Giacinto ^b   Verde, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient backscatter; Ergodic and outage capacity; Multicar rier systems; Performance bounds; Symbol variance and amplitude constraints

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LEGACY SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ERGODIC AND OUTAGE CAPACITIES; LEGACY COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE BOUNDS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE; SYMBOL VARIANCE AND AMPLITUDE CONSTRAINTS; WIRELESS BROADBAND NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 85018516303     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2654448     Document Type: Article

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