Metasurface-assisted massive backscatter wireless communication with commodity Wi-Fi signals

Hanting Zhao; Ya Shuang; Menglin Wei; Tie Jun Cui; Philipp del Hougne; Lianlin Li

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17808-y

Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Metasurface-assisted massive backscatter wireless communication with commodity Wi-Fi signals

Hanting Zhao,
Ya Shuang,
Menglin Wei,
Tie Jun Cui,
Philipp del Hougne,
Lianlin Li

Affiliations

Hanting Zhao: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University
Ya Shuang: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University
Menglin Wei: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University
Tie Jun Cui: State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University
Philipp del Hougne: Univ Rennes, CNRS, Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR)—UMR 6164
Lianlin Li: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17808-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Leveraging the large aperture and huge number of degrees of freedom offered by a programmable metasurface, the authors modulate the propagation environment of existing background commodity Wi-Fi signals to implement a secure and high-speed massive-backscatter communication link.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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