Dinh Thai Hoang is a Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dusit Niyato is a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Dong In Kim is a Professor of Sungkyunkwan University and a Director of the Engineering Research Center. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Nguyen Van Huynh is currently a PhD student at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Shimin Gong is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

• Preface; Part I. Fundamentals of Ambient Backscatter Communications: 1. Self-sustaining wireless communications networks; 2. Fundamentals of ambient backscatter communications; 3. Circuit and antenna designs for ambient backscatter; Part II. Architectures, Protocols, and Performance Analysis: 4. Wireless-powered communication networks with ambient backscatter; 5. Cognitive radio networks with ambient backscatter communications; 6. Ambient backscatter relay communications; 7. Performance analysis of ambient backscatter; Part III. Challenges, Approaches and Emerging Topics: 8. Performance improvement for ambient backscatter communications; 9. Power management; 10. Open issues and emerging research topics; Notes; Index.

'Wonderfully enlightening … conceived by some of the pioneers of back-scattering aided communications (and) offers a gracefully evolving story-line by bridging the challenging aspects of cutting-edge theory and practical circuit design, paving the way for 'always-on' wireless systems.' Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton