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20222026
most citedBreaking the Interference and Fading Gridlock in Backscatter Communications: State-of-the-Art, Design Challenges, and Future Directions

78 citations · 161 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

eess.SP2026

Joint Localization and Data Detection in Ambient Backscatter Communications: Uncertainty-Preserving Inference and Cross-Frame Geometry Consensus

Xianhua Yu, Dong Li, Bowen Gu +2

We address joint continuous localization and data detection in ambient backscatter communication, where weak observations can leave competing geometry hypotheses plausible and a st…

cs.IT2026

Movable-Antenna Empowered Backscatter ISAC: Toward Geometry-Adaptive, Low-Power Networks

Haohao Zhang, Bowen Gu, Xianhua Yu +5

Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wir…

eess.SP2025

Adaptive Phase Shift Information Compression for IRS Systems: A Prompt Conditioned Variable Rate Framework

Xianhua Yu, Dong Li, Bowen Gu +3

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have become a vital technology for improving the spectrum and energy efficiency of forthcoming wireless networks. Nevertheless, practical imp…

cs.IT2025

Fairness-Aware Computation Offloading in Wireless-Powered MEC Systems with Cooperative Energy Recycling

Haohao Qin, Bowen Gu, Dong Li +4

In this paper, cooperative energy recycling (CER) is investigated in wireless-powered mobile edge computing systems. Unlike conventional architectures that rely solely on a dedicat…

cs.IT2025

Revisiting Wireless-Powered MEC: A Cooperative Energy Recycling Framework for Task-Energy Co-Design

Haohao Qin, Bowen Gu, Xianhua Yu +4

Cooperative energy recycling (CER) offers a new way to boost energy utilization in wireless-powered multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks, yet its integration with computation…

eess.SP2025

Meta-Learning Driven Lightweight Phase Shift Compression for IRS-Assisted Wireless Systems

Xianhua Yu, Dong Li, Bowen Gu +4

The phase shift information (PSI) overhead poses a critical challenge to enabling real-time intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless systems, particularly under dynam…

cs.IT2023★ 78 cited

Breaking the Interference and Fading Gridlock in Backscatter Communications: State-of-the-Art, Design Challenges, and Future Directions

Bowen Gu, Dong Li, Haiyang Ding +2

As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances by leaps and bounds, a multitude of devices are becoming interconnected, marking the onset of an era where all things are connected. While…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Enhancing Spectrum Sensing via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Passive or Active Sensing and How Many Reflecting Elements are Needed?

Hao Xie, Dong Li, Bowen Gu

Cognitive radio has been proposed to alleviate the scarcity of available spectrum caused by the significant demand for wideband services and the fragmentation of spectrum resources…

cs.IT2023★ 17 cited

Computation-Efficient Backscatter-Blessed MEC with User Reciprocity

Bowen Gu, Hao Xie, Dong Li

This letter proposes a new user cooperative offloading protocol called user reciprocity in backscatter communication (BackCom)-aided mobile edge computing systems with efficient co…

cs.IT2022★ 2 cited

Exploring Hybrid Active-Passive RIS-Aided MEC Systems: From the Mode-Switching Perspective

Hao Xie, Dong Li, Bowen Gu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising technique to support latencysensitivity and computation-intensive serves. However, the low offloading rate caused by th…

cs.IT2022

Gain without Pain: Recycling Reflected Energy from Wireless Powered RIS-aided Communications

Hao Xie, Bowen Gu, Dong Li +2

In this paper, we investigate and analyze energy recycling for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless-powered communication network. As opposed to the existing w…

cs.IT2022★ 3 cited

Exploiting Hybrid Active and Passive Multiple Access via Slotted ALOHA-Driven Backscatter Communications

Bowen Gu, Dong Li, Hao Xie +3

In conventional backscatter communication (BackCom) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) and frequency division multiple access (FDMA) are generally adopted for multiuser…

cs.IT2022★ 27 cited

Exploiting Constructive Interference for Backscatter Communication Systems

Bowen Gu, Dong Li, Ye Liu +1

Backscatter communication (BackCom), one of the core technologies to realize zero-power communication, is expected to be a pivotal paradigm for the next generation of the Internet…

cs.IT2022★ 33 cited

Many a little Makes a Mickle: Probing Backscattering Energy Recycling for Backscatter Communications

Gu Bowen, Li Dong, Xu Yongjun +2

In this paper, we investigate and analyze full-duplex-based backscatter communications with multiple backscatter devices (BDs). Different from previous works where only the energy…