Data Transmission in Backscatter IoT Networks for Smart City Applications

Table 1

Transmission parameters.

Parameters	Values
Superframe size	120 ms
Beacon period	20 ms
Energy-harvesting period	30 ms
Contention-based transmission for HTT	40 ms
Number of retransmissions	2
Backscatter mode period	30 ms
Access-group1	Random (0, 2 ms)
Access-group2	Random (1, 3 ms)
Access-group3	Random (2, 4 ms)
Packet size	125 Bytes
Data rate	250 Kbps
TDMA slot size	5 ms