Related papers: Energy Harvesting Two-Hop Communication Networks
This paper considers the sum rate maximization problem of a two-user multiple-input single-output interference channel with receivers that can scavenge energy from the radio signals transmitted by the transmitters. We first study the…
Energy-harvesting wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology with applications to various fields such as environmental and structural health monitoring. A distinguishing feature of wireless sensors is the need to perform both…
Wireless energy transfer, namely RF-based energy harvesting, is a potential way to prolong the lifetime of energy-constrained devices, especially in wireless sensor networks. However, due to huge propagation attenuation, its energy…
We analyze coding for energy efficiency in relay channels at a fixed source rate. We first propose a half-duplex decode-forward coding scheme for the Gaussian relay channel. We then derive three optimal sets of power allocation, which…
In this paper, we consider simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in multi-relay assisted two-hop relay system, where multiple relay nodes simultaneously assist the transmission from source to destination using the…
This paper considers the problem of maximizing the sum-rate for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a full-duplex bi-directional communication system subject to energy harvesting and transmit power constraints at…
We study energy harvesting (EH) transmitter and receiver, where the receiver decodes data using the harvested energy from the nature and from an independent EH node, named helper. Helper cooperates with the receiver by transferring its…
In this letter, a novel wireless powered protocol is proposed to maximize the system throughput of an energy harvesting (EH) based cognitive radio network, while satisfying a minimum primary user rate requirement. For EH, we exploit both…
The ever-increasing number of distributed embedded systems in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) rely on wireless communication to collect and exchange data. Nodes…
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…
In this paper, we consider a scenario where one energy harvesting and one battery operated sensor cooperatively transmit a common message to a distant base station. The goal is to find the jointly optimal transmission (power allocation)…
Two-way relaying is a promising technique to improve network throughput. However, how to apply it to a wireless network remains an unresolved issue. Particularly, challenges lie in the joint design between the physical layer and the routing…
The advancements in smart power grid and the advocation of ``green communications'' have inspired the wireless communication networks to harness energy from ambient environments and operate in an energy-efficient manner for economic and…
The study of relays with the scope of energy-harvesting (EH) looks interesting as a means of enabling sustainable, wireless communication without the need to recharge or replace the battery driving the relays. However, reliability of such…
Wireless systems comprised of rechargeable nodes have a significantly prolonged lifetime and are sustainable. A distinct characteristic of these systems is the fact that the nodes can harvest energy throughout the duration in which…
In this paper, we present a new power allocation scheme for a decode-and-forward (DF) relaying-enhanced cooperative wireless system. While both source and relay nodes may have limited traditional brown power supply or fixed green energy…
This paper analyzes the throughput of industrial communication networks under a secrecy constraint. The proposed scenario is composed by sensors that measure some relevant information of the plant that is first processed by aggregator node…
In this paper, we consider a wireless communication network with a full-duplex hybrid access point (HAP) and a set of wireless users with energy harvesting capabilities. The HAP implements the full-duplex through two antennas: one for…
In this work, we investigate the capacity allocation problem in the energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with interference channel. For the fixed topologies of data and energy, we formulate the optimization problem when the…
We consider wireless-powered amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying in cooperative communications, where an energy constrained relay node first harvests energy through the received radio-frequency signal from the source and…