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This paper considers a two-user Gaussian interference channel with energy harvesting transmitters. Different than conventional battery powered wireless nodes, energy harvesting transmitters have to adapt transmission to availability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kaya Tutuncuoglu , Aylin Yener

In this letter, we investigate a novel pinching antenna (PA)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which multiple PAs are activated along a waveguide to establish robust line-of-sight links with multiple devices. Both time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yixuan Li , Hongbo Xu , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu

Ambient backscatter communications is an emerging paradigm and a key enabler for pervasive connectivity of low-powered wireless devices. It is primarily beneficial in the Internet of things (IoT) and the situations where computing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Furqan Jameel , Tapani Ristaniemi , Imran Khan , Byung Moo Lee

One of the key challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to sustainably power the large number of IoT devices in real-time. In this paper, we consider a wireless power transfer (WPT) scenario between an energy transmitter (ET) capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Sahar Idrees , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we study resource allocation algorithm design for power efficient secure communication with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) in multiuser communication systems. In particular, we focus on power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Shiyang Leng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Li , Pingyi Fan , Zhengchuan Chen , Khaled Ben Letaief

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN) systems where a mobile access point (AP) at the UAV serves multiple energy-constrained ground terminals (GTs). Specifically, the UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Junhee Park , Hoon Lee , Subin Eom , Inkyu Lee

Energy harvesting is a technology for enabling green, sustainable, and autonomous wireless networks. In this paper, a large-scale wireless network with energy harvesting transmitters is considered, where a group of transmitters forms a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Talha Ahmed Khan , Philip Orlik , Kyeong Jin Kim , Robert W. Heath , Kentaro Sawa

We consider the wireless powered communications where users harvest energy from non-dedicated sources. The user follows a harvest-then-transmit protocol: in first phase of a slot time the source node harvests energy from a nearby…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Hongxing Xia , Yongzhao Li , Hailin Zhang

Harvesting energy from ambient environment is a new promising solution to free electronic devices from electric wire or limited-lifetime battery, which may find very significant applications in sensor networks and body-area networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tao Li , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

Interference in wireless networks is one of the key capacity-limiting factors. Recently developed interference-embracing techniques show promising performance on turning collisions into useful transmissions. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Jianfei Cai , Chuan Heng Foh

Wireless energy transfer is an emerging technology that is used in networks of battery-powered devices in order to deliver energy and keep the network functional. Existing state-of-the-art studies have mainly focused on applying this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Sotiris Nikoletseas , Theofanis P. Raptis , Christoforos Raptopoulos

Energy efficiency in wireless networks has become an important field of research due to ever increasing energy expenditure in battery supplied mobile terminals. In this paper we present an energy efficient routing scheme for multi-standard…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Riccardo Fedrizzi , Tinku Rasheed

Radio waves carry both energy and information simultaneously. Nevertheless, Radio-Frequency (RF) transmission of these quantities have traditionally been treated separately. Currently, we are experiencing a paradigm shift in wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Bruno Clerckx , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dong In Kim , H. Vincent Poor

This letter studies a multi-antenna wireless powered communication (WPC) system with co-channel energy and information transfer, where a wireless device (WD), powered up by wireless energy transfer (WET) from an energy transmitter (ET),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Yueling Che , Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) is proposed, where two energy-limited devices first harvest energy from a hybrid access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Ao Huang , Shibiao Xu

Energy harvesting communication has raised great research interests due to its wide applications and feasibility of commercialization. In this paper, we investigate the multiuser energy diversity. Specifically, we reveal the throughput gain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Hang Li , Chuan Huang , Shuguang Cui

Due to small size of sensor nodes deployed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy utilization is a key issue. Poor channel conditions lead to retransmissions and hence, result in energy wastage. Error control strategies are usually…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-18 B. Manzoor , N. Javaid , O. Rehman , S. H. Bouk , S. H. Ahmed , D. Kim

Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks are expected to support the wireless connection of massive energy limited IoT nodes. The emerging wireless powered backscatter communications (WPBC) enable IoT nodes to harvest energy from the incident…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Haohang Yang , Yinghui Ye , Kai Liang , Xiaoli Chu

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been recognized as promising techniques in the Internet of Things (IoT) era to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Xin Wang , Shuguang Cui