A software-defined radio system for backscatter sensor networksA software-defined radio system for backscatter sensor networks Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-10-262008enBackscatter radio is proposed for sensor networks. In that way, the transmitter for each sensor is simplified to a transistor connected to an antenna and therefore, the cost for each sensor's communicator becomes negligible, while energy used for wireless communication per sensor is minimized. A software-defined transceiver is built to transmit a carrier, receive the reflections from various sensors and extract their transmitted messages. This work presents a thorough model of the backscatter radio link, the system architecture and a set of data extraction techniques for each sensor's information, testing in practice a sensor communicating through backscatter at a range of approximately 15 meters indoors, with 5 milliwatt transmission power at 10 bits per second. This work highlights the idiosyncrasies of the backscatter channel and provides a new communication perspective in the fertile area of scalable sensor networks, especially when low bit-rate, ultra-low cost sensors are required.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications762170-2179 Bletsas Aggelos Μπλετσας Αγγελος D. Leigh G. Vannucci Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers