Backscatter Communications for Wireless Powered Sensor Networks with Collision Resolution

TL;DR

This paper explores collision resolution techniques in wireless powered backscatter sensor networks, analyzing how directional antennas, ultra-narrow band transmissions, and interference cancellation improve decoding success.

Contribution

It provides analytical expressions for decoding probability and demonstrates the effectiveness of various collision mitigation strategies in large-scale backscatter networks.

Findings

Directional antennas significantly improve decoding success.

Ultra-narrow band transmissions reduce collision impact.

Successive interference cancellation enhances network performance.

Abstract

Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous transmissions and a dyadic backscatter channel, which greatly attenuate the received signal at the reader. This letter deals with backscatter communications in sensor networks from a large-scale point-of-view and considers various collision resolution techniques: directional antennas, ultra-narrow band transmissions and successive interference cancellation. We derive analytical expressions for the decoding probability and our results show the significant gains, which can be achieved from the aforementioned techniques.