PassiveVLC: Enabling practical visible light backscater communication for batery-free IoT applications

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn Part F131210, Issue , 2017, Pages 180-192

  Xu, Xieyang ^a   Shen, Yang ^a   Yang, Junrui ^b   Xu, Chenren ^a   Shen, Guobin ^c   Chen, Guojun ^a   Ni, Yunzhe ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Zepp Labs Inc   (China)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Battery free; Internet of Things; Passive communication; Retroreffector; Visible light communication

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BUDGET CONTROL; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; INTERNET OF THINGS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOBILE COMPUTING; MODULAR ROBOTS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

AMBIENT LIGHTING; BATTERY-FREE; IOT APPLICATIONS; LINK BUDGET ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PASSIVE COMMUNICATION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RETROREFFECTOR;

LIGHT;

EID: 85034041592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3117811.3117843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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