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Pervasive Ambient Communication for Internet of Things

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  1. Wei Gong

    1. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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  2. Yimeng Huang

    1. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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  3. Jia Zhao

    1. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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  4. Jiangchuan Liu

    1. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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  • Covers several essential aspects of pervasive ambient backscatter communication
  • Aims to provide an in-depth understanding of ambient backscatter technologies
  • Significantly contributes to the fast development of interdisciplinary research areas

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This book covers several essential aspects of pervasive ambient backscatter communication, one of the most cutting-edge technologies for Internet-of-Things. It begins with introductory Part I, which presents visions, basic concepts, principles, and paradigms of ambient backscatter. Also, a taxonomy of state-of-the-art ambient backscatter systems is provided from the perspective of the OSI model. Part II and III study how ambient backscatter systems work on the communication and networking levels. Specifically, Part II discusses in detail how to make use of ambient WiFi signals to provide high-throughput backscatter communications with WiFi 1 (chapter 5), WiFi 2-3 (chapter 4), WiFi 4 (chapter 3), WiFi 5-6 (chapter 6) standards. Further, Part III includes several of the most advanced ambient backscatter network solutions, which are made possible by the first multi-hop backscatter (chapter 7), first backscatter mesh (chapter 8), and multiprotocol backscatter (chapter 9). On top of reliable communication and networks, we propose two novel applications that are thought impossible before, lightweight spatial sound recording over the air (chapter 10) and self-powered wireless wearables for healthcare (chapter 11). To conclude the monograph, we point out critical challenges for realizing the vision of pervasive backscatter IoTs and potential directions of ambient backscatter applications. 


The book provides an in-depth understanding of ambient backscatter technologies. In particular, we mainly take ubiquitous WiF signals as the communication sources and adopt a top-down approach to introduce three crucial subjects: WiFi backscatter communication, ambient backscatter network, and self-powered application systems. For each subject, we carefully divide it into several relatively independent topics, which come with the latest advances in pervasive backscatter and include extensive discussions of closely related state-of-the-art methodologies.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Vision of Pervasive Backscatter

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 3-10

    3. Understanding State-of-the-Art Ambient Backscatter

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 11-21

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Spatial Stream Backscatter with Multiplexing Wi-Fi

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 25-48

    3. Single-Symbol Wi-Fi Backscatter with Uncontrolled Ambient Signals

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 49-70

    4. Symbol and Sub-Symbol Wi-Fi Backscatter for 802.11b

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 71-101

    5. Content-Agnostic Backscatter with Ambient OFDM Signals

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 103-125

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Multi-Hop Wi-Fi Backscatter

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 129-155

    3. Multi-Hop Backscatter Sensor Mesh

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 157-185

    4. Multiprotocol Backscatter with Commodity Radios

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 187-212

  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Microphone Array Backscatter

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 215-243

    3. Apollo: Battery-Free Wearable Sweat Monitoring System

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 245-265

  6. Part V

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Challenges and Applications of Pervasive Backscatter

      • Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu
      Pages 269-273
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang

  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu

About the authors

Wei Gong: He received the B.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Software and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include backscatter networks, edge systems, and the IoT applications.

Yimeng Huang: She received the B.S. degree in computer science and technology from Xidian University, Xi’an, China. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. Her research interests include wireless networking, backscatter networks, and internet of things.


Jia Zhao: He received the M.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. His research interests include networking, multimedia communications, cloud computing, and transport protocols.


Jiangchuan Liu: He received the B.Eng. degree (cum laude) in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He is currently a University Professor with the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. He is also a NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow. He was a co-recipient of the Inaugural Test of Time Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM in 2015, the ACM SIGMM TOMCCAP Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award in 2013, and the ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award in 2012. He has served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIG DATA, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS, and IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL. He is also a Steering Committee Member of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pervasive Ambient Communication for Internet of Things

  • Authors: Wei Gong, Yimeng Huang, Jia Zhao, Jiangchuan Liu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38044-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38043-3Published: 25 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38046-4Published: 25 August 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38044-0Published: 23 August 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Professional Computing, Cyber-physical systems, IoT

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