2020/06/22 by Ahsan Waleed Nazar, Syed Ali Hassan, Nazar, Ahsan Waleed +7
Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Full-Duplex Wireless Communications #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.12160
openalex publication_date 2020/06/22 · openalex created_date 2020/06/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Backscatter communication (BackCom) has been emerging as a prospective candidate in tackling lifetime management problems for massively deployed Internet-of-Things devices, which suffer from battery-related issues, i.e., replacements, charging, and recycling. This passive sensing approach allows a backscatter sensor node (BSN) to transmit information by reflecting the incident signal from a carrier emitter without initiating its transmission. To multiplex multiple BSNs, power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which is a prime candidate for multiple access in beyond 5G systems, is fully exploited in this work. Recently, considerable attention has been devoted to the NOMA-aided BackCom networks in the context of outage probabilities and system throughput. However, the closed-form expressions of bit error rate (BER) for such a system have not been studied. In this paper, we present the design and analysis of a NOMA enhanced bistatic BackCom system for a battery-less smart communication paradigm. Specifically, we derive the closed-form BER expressions for a cluster of two devices in a bistatic BackCom system employing NOMA with imperfect successive interference cancellation under Nakagami-m fading channel. The obtained expressions are utilized to evaluate the reflection coefficients of devices needed for the most favorable system performance. Our results also show that NOMA-BackCom achieves better data throughput compared to the orthogonal multiple access-time domain multiple access schemes (OMA-TDMA).