Modulation in the air: Backscatter communication over ambient OFDM carrier

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1219-1233

  Yang, Gang ^a   Liang, Ying Chang ^a,b   Zhang, Rui ^c   Pei, Yiyang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC); multi antenna systems; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); performance analysis; spread spectrum; transceiver design

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BACKSCATTERING; BIT ERROR RATE; DETECTORS; FADING CHANNELS; MODULATION; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; RADIO WAVES; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); SPECTROSCOPY; SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; TRANSCEIVERS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

AMBIENT BACKSCATTER COMMUNICATION (AMBC); MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPREAD SPECTRA; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; WIRELESS FIDELITIES;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 85034254397     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2772261     Document Type: Article

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