6 papers
Joint Visible Light and Backscatter Communications for Proximity-Based Indoor Asset Tracking Enabled by Energy-Neutral Devices
Boxuan Xie, Lauri Mela, Alexis A. Dowhuszko +4
In next-generation wireless systems, providing location-based mobile computing services for energy-neutral devices has become a crucial objective for the provision of sustainable I…
Joint Visible Light and RF Backscatter Communications for Ambient IoT Network: Fundamentals, Applications, and Opportunities
Boxuan Xie, Yifan Zhang, Kalle Koskinen +6
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks raises significant sustainability and scalability challenges due to energy c…
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…
Age of Information Minimization in UAV-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Yu Bai, Yifan Zhang, Boxuan Xie +4
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capabilities are envisioned to play a pivotal role in future wireless networks due to thei…
Movable Antenna-Equipped UAV for Data Collection in Backscatter Sensor Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Approach
Yu Bai, Boxuan Xie, Ruifan Zhu +2
Backscatter communication (BC) becomes a promising energy-efficient solution for future wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enable flexible data collec…
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-…