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This paper investigates the information-theoretic limits of energy-harvesting (EH) channels in the finite blocklength regime. The EH process is characterized by a sequence of i.i.d. random variables with finite variances. We use the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Jing Yang

Due to stringent constraints on resources, it may be infeasible to acquire the current channel state information at the transmitter in energy harvesting communication systems. In this paper, we optimize an energy harvesting transmitter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Mehul Motani , Teng Joon Lim

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point link between an energy harvesting transmitter and receiver, where neither node has the information about the battery state or energy availability at the other node. We consider a model where data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Mohit K. Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy , Rahul Vaze

This paper investigates the achievable rates of an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) energy-harvesting (EH) channel with an infinite battery. The EH process is characterized by a sequence of blocks of harvested energy, which is known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Ayfer Özgür

We consider the use of energy harvesters, in place of conventional batteries with fixed energy storage, for point-to-point wireless communications. In addition to the challenge of transmitting in a channel with time selective fading, energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the transmission completion time minimization problem in a two-user additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) broadcast channel, where the transmitter is able to harvest energy from the nature, using a rechargeable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jing Yang , Omur Ozel , Sennur Ulukus

Wireless networks with energy harvesting battery powered nodes are quickly emerging as a viable option for future wireless networks with extended lifetime. Equally important to their counterpart in the design of energy harvesting radios are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Kaya Tutuncuoglu , Aylin Yener

We consider communication over the AWGN channel with a transmitter whose battery is recharged with RF energy transfer at random times known to the receiver. We assume that the recharging process is i.i.d. Bernoulli. We characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Dor Shaviv , Ayfer Ozgur

Consider a battery limited energy harvesting communication system with online power control. Assuming independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) energy arrivals and the harvest-store-use architecture, it is shown that the greedy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Ye Wang , Ali Zibaeenejad , Yaohui Jing , Jun Chen

In recent years, energy harvesting has taken a considerable attention in wireless communication research. Nonetheless, the stochastic nature of renewable energy sources has become one of the research problems, and energy storage has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Sami Akın

We consider Additive White Gaussian Noise channels and Discrete Memoryless channels when the transmitter harvests energy from the environment. These can model wireless sensor networks as well as Internet of Things. By providing a unifying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 K Gautam Shenoy , Vinod Sharma

We consider data transmission with an energy harvesting transmitter which has a hybrid energy storage unit composed of a perfectly efficient super-capacitor (SC) and an inefficient battery. The SC has finite space for energy storage while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Omur Ozel , Khurram Shahzad , Sennur Ulukus

We propose a variation of harvest-then-consume protocol with low complexity where the harvest and consume phases change when the battery energy level reaches certain thresholds. The proposed protocol allows us to control the possible energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Sudarshan Guruacharya , Vandana Mittal , Ekram Hossain

We investigate performance limits of a multiple access communication system with energy harvesting nodes where the utility function is taken to be the long-term average sum-throughput. We assume a causal structure for energy arrivals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Masoud Badiei Khuzani , Patrick Mitran

Energy harvesting sensor nodes are gaining popularity due to their ability to improve the network life time and are becoming a preferred choice supporting 'green communication'. In this paper we focus on communicating reliably over an AWGN…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-14 Rajesh Ramachandran , Vinod Sharma , Pramod Viswanath

Energy harvesting has emerged as a powerful technology for complementing current battery-powered communication systems in order to extend their lifetime. In this paper a general framework is introduced for the optimization of communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Bertrand Devillers , Deniz Gunduz

This paper considers multiterminal networks with energy harvesting transmitter nodes that are also capable of wirelessly transferring energy to or receiving energy from other nodes in the network. In particular, the jointly optimal transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Kaya Tutuncuoglu , Aylin Yener

We consider online scheduling policies for single-user energy harvesting communication systems, where the goal is to characterize online policies that maximize the long term average utility, for some general concave and monotonically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Ahmed Arafa , Abdulrahman Baknina , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we consider the random access of nodes having energy harvesting capability and a battery to store the harvested energy. Each node attempts to transmit the head-of-line packet in the queue if its battery is nonempty. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jeongho Jeon , Anthony Ephremides

We consider the power allocation of the physical layer and the buffer delay of the upper application layer in energy harvesting green networks. The total power required for reliable transmission includes the transmission power and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Tian Zhang , Wei Chen , Zhu Han , Zhigang Cao