Ambient Backscatter Communication Networks

Understand the fundamental principles and applications of ambient backscatter technology with this authoritative review. Covering both theory and practical engineering, leading researchers describe and explain hardware design, network design, and signal processing, and discuss architectures, protocols, communication methods, open research issues, emerging applications, and advanced system models with innovative solutions. This is an essential tool for graduate students, researchers, engineers, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Preface; Part I. Fundamentals of Ambient Backscatter Communications: 1. Self-sustaining wireless communications networks; 2. Fundamentals of ambient backscatter communications; 3. Circuit and antenna designs for ambient backscatter; Part II. Architectures, Protocols, and Performance Analysis: 4. Wireless-powered communication networks with ambient backscatter; 5. Cognitive radio networks with ambient backscatter communications; 6. Ambient backscatter relay communications; 7. Performance analysis of ambient backscatter; Part III. Challenges, Approaches and Emerging Topics: 8. Performance improvement for ambient backscatter communications; 9. Power management; 10. Open issues and emerging research topics; Notes; Index.

Dinh Thai Hoang is a Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Dusit Niyato is a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dong In Kim is a Professor of Sungkyunkwan University and a Director of the Engineering Research Center. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Nguyen Van Huynh is currently a PhD student at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Shimin Gong is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.