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User cooperation is an effective technique to tackle the severe near-far user unfairness problem in wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs). In this paper, we consider a WPCN where two collaborating wireless devices (WDs) first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yuan Zheng , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

Efficient energy management is essential in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to extend network lifetime and ensure reliable data transmission. This paper presents a novel method using reinforcement learning-based cluster-head selection and a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Parham Soltani , Mehrshad Eskandarpour , Amir Ahmadizad , Hossein Soleimani

The densification and expansion of wireless networks pose new challenges on energy efficiency. With a drastic increase of infrastructure nodes (e.g. ultra-dense deployment of small cells), the total energy consumption may easily exceed an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-28 R. L. G. Cavalcante , S. Stańczak , M. Schubert , A. Eisenblätter , U. Türke

We consider a data aggregating wireless network where all nodes have data to send to a single destination node, the sink. We consider a linear placement of nodes with the sink at one end. The nodes communicate directly to the sink (single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Easwar Vivek Mangipudi , Venkatesh Ramaiyan , Srikrishna Bhashyam

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of many individual sensors that are deployed in the area of interest. These sensor nodes have major energy constraints as they are small and their battery can't be replaced. They collaborate together…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ashwin R Jadhav , T. Shankar

In this letter, we consider the control of an energy self-sufficient receiver in a multi-access network with simultaneous wireless information and energy transfer. Multiple transmitters send data to a common receiver whose only source of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Yunus Sarikaya , Ozgur Ercetin

The novel resource allocation for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is presented as a means of not only helping to communicate and access information with increasing efficiency in the next generation of mobile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Jalal Jalali

This paper develops a control framework for a network of energy harvesting nodes connected to a Base Station (BS) over a multiple access channel. The objective is to adapt their transmission strategy to the state of the network, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Nicolo Michelusi , Marco Levorato

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless-powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple wireless devices (WDs) first harvest energy from the downlink (DL) signal broadcast by a hybrid access point (HAP) and then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

We consider the problem of data collection from a continental-scale network of energy harvesting sensors, applied to tracking mobile assets in rural environments. Our application constraints favour a highly asymmetric solution, with heavily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Kai Li , Chau Yuen , Branislav Kusy , Raja Jurdak , Aleksandar Ignjatovic , Salil S. Kanhere , Sanjay Jha

A critical need in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network (MWSN) is to achieve energy efficiency during routing as the sensor nodes have scarce energy resource. The nodes' mobility in MWSN poses a challenge to design an energy efficient routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Getsy S. Sara , Kalaiarasi. R , Neelavathy Pari. S , Sridharan . D

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a novel user cooperation method in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where a pair of distributed terminal users first harvest wireless energy broadcasted by one energy node (EN) and then use the harvested…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mingquan Zhong , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin

Diffusion models are vastly used in generative AI, leveraging their capability to capture complex data distributions. However, their potential remains largely unexplored in the field of resource allocation in wireless networks. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Amirhassan Babazadeh Darabi , Sinem Coleri

The increasing traffic demand in cellular networks has recently led to the investigation of new strategies to save precious resources like spectrum and energy. Direct device-to-device (D2D) communication becomes a promising solution if the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Federico Librino , Giorgio Quer

This paper investigates the average throughput of a wireless powered communications system, where an energy constrained source, powered by a dedicated power beacon (PB), communicates with a destination. It is assumed that the PB is capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , George Karagiannidis

We investigate the interesting impact of mobility on the problem of efficient wireless power transfer in ad hoc networks. We consider a set of mobile agents (consuming energy to perform certain sensing and communication tasks), and a single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Adelina Madhja , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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

The explosion of the number of low-power devices in the next decades calls for a re-thinking of wireless network design, namely, unifying wireless transmission of information and power so as to make the best use of the RF spectrum,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Morteza Varasteh , Jakob Hoydis , Bruno Clerckx

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Hirley Alves , Carlos H. M. de Lima , Matti Latva-aho