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Wireless-powered communication network (WPCN) is a key technology to power energy-limited massive devices, such as on-board wireless sensors in autonomous vehicles, for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Conventional WPCNs rely only on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Qingqing Wu , Guangchi Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wen Chen , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Jiancao Hou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of battery-powered mobile devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, sensors, and laptops, which leads a significant demand for high capacity wireless communication with high energy efficiency. Among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Makoto Kobayashi , Ryo Murakami , Shunsuke Saruwatari , Takashi Watanabe

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

In this paper, we study the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN) focusing on the system energy efficiency (EE). We consider multiple energy harvesting user equipments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Tewodros A. Zewde , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we consider a three-node cooperative wireless powered communication system consisting of a multi-antenna hybrid access point (H-AP) and a single-antenna relay and a single-antenna user. The energy constrained relay and user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Han Liang , Caijun Zhong , Himal A. Suraweera , Gan Zheng , Zhaoyang Zhang

Large-scale distributed antenna systems with many access points (APs) that serve the users by coherent joint transmission is being considered for 5G-and-beyond networks. The technology is called Cell-free Massive MIMO and can provide a more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper considers a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with group cooperation, where two communication groups cooperate with each other via wireless power transfer and time sharing to fulfill their expected information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ke Xiong , Chen Chen , Gang Qu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

In this paper, we consider a secondary wireless powered communication network (WPCN) underlaid to a primary point-to-point communication link. The WPCN consists of a multi-antenna hybrid access point (HAP) that transfers wireless energy to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lina Yuan , Suzhi Bi , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

This paper considers joint uplink/downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based heterogeneous network (HetNet) consisting of a single macro base station (MBS), multiple femto base stations (FBSs) and access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation algorithm design for full-duplex simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (FD-SWIPT) systems. The considered system comprises a FD radio base station, multiple single-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shiyang Leng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Wireless-powered underground communication networks (WPUCNs), which allow underground devices (UDs) to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free communication, offer a promising solution for sustainable underground monitoring.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kaiqiang Lin , Yijie Mao , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper develops and evaluates an accumulate-then-transmit framework for multi-user scheduling in a full-duplex (FD) wireless-powered Internet-of-Things system, consisting of multiple energy harvesting (EH) IoT devices (IoDs) and one FD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Di Zhai , He Chen , Zihuai Lin , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

Wireless powered backscatter communications (WPBC) is capable of implementing ultra-low-power communication, thus promising in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In practice, however, it is challenging to apply WPBC in large-scale IoT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Erhu Chen , Peiran Wu , Yik-Chung Wu , Minghua Xia

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology that provides the network a way to replenish the batteries of the remote devices by utilizing RF transmissions. We study a class of harvest-first-transmit-later type of WPT policy,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Ozgur Ercetin

This paper proposes a novel design on the wireless powered communication network (WPCN) in dynamic environments under the assistance of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike the existing studies, where the low-power wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ze Yu Zhao , Yue Ling Che , Sheng Luo , Gege Luo , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a time-slotted multi-antenna wireless powered communication (WPC) system, where a wireless device first harvests radio frequency (RF) energy from a power station (PS) in the downlink to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Rania Morsi , Elena Boshkovska , Esmat Ramadan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This paper investigates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless powered communication system, where one user harvests energy from an energy access point (EAP) to power its information transmission to a data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xun Zhou , Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang

In this work, we study a multi-user wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where a multi-antenna base station (BS) sends an energy signal to multiple single-antenna users equipped with non-linear energy harvesting (EH) circuits. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Nikita Shanin , Amelie Hagelauer , Laura Cottatellucci , Robert Schober