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Turbocharging ambient backscatter communication

Authors:

Aaron N. Parks,

Shyamnath Gollakota,

Joshua R. SmithAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 44, Issue 4

Pages 619 - 630

https://doi.org/10.1145/2740070.2626312

Published: 17 August 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Communication primitives such as coding and multiple antenna processing have provided significant benefits for traditional wireless systems. Existing designs, however, consume significant power and computational resources, and hence cannot be run on low complexity, power constrained backscatter devices. This paper makes two main contributions: (1) we introduce the first multi-antenna cancellation design that operates on backscatter devices while retaining a small form factor and power footprint, (2) we introduce a novel coding mechanism that enables long range communication as well as concurrent transmissions and can be decoded on backscatter devices. We build hardware prototypes of the above designs that can be powered solely using harvested energy from TV and solar sources. The results show that our designs provide benefits for both RFID and ambient backscatter systems: they enable RFID tags to communicate directly with each other at distances of tens of meters and through multiple walls. They also increase the communication rate and range achieved by ambient backscatter systems by 100X and 40X respectively. We believe that this paper represents a substantial leap in the capabilities of backscatter communication.

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    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 44, Issue 4

SIGCOMM'14

October 2014

672 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/2740070

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Konstantina Papagiannaki
Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain
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EPFL, Switzerland
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Hitesh Ballani
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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Fabián Bustamante
Northwestern University, USA
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Joseph Camp
SMU, USA
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Augustin Chaintreau
Columbia University, USA
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Phillipa Gill
Stony Brook University, USA
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Marco Mellia
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Bhaskaran Raman
IIT Bombay, India
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Joel Sommers
Colgate University, USA
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INRIA, France

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SIGCOMM '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on SIGCOMM
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ISBN:9781450328364
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