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most citedZero-energy Devices for 6G: Technical Enablers at a Glance

5 citations · 11 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

eess.SP2026

Self-Calibrated Indoor Tracking from Backscatter Fiducials under NLOS Transmitter Illumination

Hüseyin Yiğitler, Kalle Ruttik, Jingyi Liao +2

This paper studies indoor tracking from wall-mounted backscatter fiducials in corridor segments outside direct transmitter illumination. In the measured setup, the transmitter-to-f…

eess.SP2026

Backscatter Assisted Indoor NLOS Positioning

Kalle Ruttik, Hüseyin Yiğitler, Jingyi Liao +2

Passive backscatter devices (BDs) can enable indoor non-line-of-sight (NLOS) positioning by serving as virtual anchors whose Doppler-separated signatures are observable in standard…

eess.SP2026

Dual-Hop Joint Visible Light and Backscatter Communication Relaying under Finite Blocklength

Boxuan Xie, Lauri Mela, Alexis A. Dowhuszko +3

This paper investigates a dual-hop joint visible light communication (VLC) and backscatter communication (BC) relaying framework under the finite blocklength (FBL) constraint, aimi…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

Ambient Backscatter Communication in LTE Uplink Sounding Reference Signal

Jingyi Liao, Tianshu Zhang, Kalle Ruttik +2

Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), recently standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), demands a low-power wide-area communication solution that operates severa…

eess.SP2024★ 5 cited

Thin Film Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Harmonic Beam Steering

Boxuan Xie, Aleksandr D. Kuznetsov, Lauri Mela +4

This letter explores an implementation of a novel thin film 1-by-4 reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) designed for future communication and sensing scenarios. Utilizing cost-…

eess.SP2024

Coded Backscattering Communication with LTE Pilots as Ambient Signal

Jingyi Liao, Kalle Ruttik, Riku Jantti +1

The 3GPP has recently conducted a study on the Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), with a particular emphasis on examining backscatter communications as one of the primary technique…

eess.SP2024★ 5 cited

Zero-energy Devices for 6G: Technical Enablers at a Glance

Onel López, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy +13

Low-cost, resource-constrained, maintenance-free, and energy-harvesting (EH) Internet of Things (IoT) devices, referred to as zero-energy devices (ZEDs), are rapidly attracting att…

cs.IT2023

Zero-Energy-Device for 6G: First Real-Time Backscatter Communication thanks to the Detection of Pilots from an Ambient Commercial Cellular Network

Papis Ndiaye, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Ayman Hassan +4

Ambient backscatter communication technology (AmBC) and a novel device category called zero-energy devices (ZED) have recently emerged as potential components for the forthcoming 6…

eess.SP2022

Ambient backscatter communications using LTE cell specific reference signals

Kalle Ruttik, Xiyu Wang, Jingyi Liao +2

Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems provide ubiquitous coverage for mobile communications, which makes it a promising candidate to be used as a signal source in the ambient backscatt…

quant-ph2018

Quantum Backscatter Communication: A New Paradigm

Roberto Di Candia, Riku Jäntti, Ruifeng Duan +3

In this paper, we propose a novel quantum backscatter communications (QBC) protocol, inspired by the quantum illumination (QI) concept. In the QBC paradigm, the transmitter generat…

cs.IT2017

Multiantenna Quantum Backscatter Communications

Riku Jäntti, Roberto Di Candia, Ruifeng Duan +1

Quantum illumination (QI) is a revolutionary photonic quantum sensing paradigm that enhances the sensitivity of photodetection in noisy and lossy environments. The QI concept has b…

cs.IT2016

On the Achievable Rate of Bi-Static Modulated Re-Scatter Systems

Ruifeng Duan, Riku Jäntti, Hüseyin Yiğitler +1

In ambient re-scatter communications, devices convey information by modulating and re-scattering the radio frequency signals impinging on their antennas. In this correspondence, we…

eess.SY2015

Modeling the Interference Generated from Car Base Stations towards Indoor Femto-cells

Byungjin Cho, Konstantinos Koufos, Kalle Ruttik +1

In future wireless networks, a significant number of users will be vehicular. One promising solution to improve the capacity for these vehicular users is to employ moving relays or…