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Energy harvesting (EH) combined with cooperative communications constitutes a promising solution for future wireless technologies. They enable additional efficiency and increased lifetime to wireless networks. This paper investigates a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ahmad Alsharoa , Hakim Ghazzai , Ahmed E Kamal , Abdullah Kadri

In this paper, we study multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, where the energy harvester (EH) node is equipped with multiple nonlinear rectennas. We characterize the optimal transmit strategy by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nikita Shanin , Laura Cottatellucci , Robert Schober

Energy harvesting is increasingly gaining importance as a means to charge battery powered devices such as sensor nodes. Efficient transmission strategies must be developed for Wireless Energy Harvesting Nodes (WEHNs) that take into account…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-06 Maria Gregori , Miquel Payaró

In this paper, we consider a wireless powered communication system, where an energy harvesting (EH) node harvests energy from a radio frequency (RF) signal broadcasted by an access point (AP) in the downlink (DL). The node stores the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rania Morsi , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Robert Schober

In this paper, we consider an energy harvesting (EH) node which harvests energy from a radio frequency (RF) signal broadcasted by an access point (AP) in the downlink (DL). The node stores the harvested energy in an energy buffer and uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Rania Morsi , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Robert Schober

Wireless charging is a promising way to power wireless nodes' transmissions. This paper considers new dual-function access points (APs) which are able to support the energy/information transmission to/from wireless nodes. We focus on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yue Ling Che , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a multi-input single-output (MISO) wireless powered communication network (WPCN) under the protocol of harvest-then-transmit. The power station (PS) with reliable power supply can replenish the passive user nodes by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Qian Sun , Gang Zhu , Chao Shen , Xuan Li , Zhangdui Zhong

Energy harvesting (EH) has recently emerged as a key technology for green communications as it can power wireless networks with renewable energy sources. However, directly replacing the conventional non-EH transmitters by EH nodes will be a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yaming Luo , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we study information-theoretic limits for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems employing a practical nonlinear radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) receiver. In particular, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Rania Morsi , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Arshad Nasir , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Rodney A. Kennedy

In recent years, wireless communication systems are expected to achieve more cost-efficient and sustainable operations by replacing conventional fixed power supplies such as batteries with energy harvesting (EH) devices, which could provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Hang Li , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we consider an energy harvesting (EH) node which harvests energy from a radio frequency (RF) signal broadcasted by an access point (AP) in the downlink (DL). The node stores the harvested energy in an energy buffer and uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Rania Morsi , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Robert Schober

Characterizing the fundamental tradeoffs for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) versus spectrum efficiency (SE) is a key problem in wireless communication. In this paper, we address this problem for a point-to-point additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

The newly emerging wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) have recently drawn significant attention, where radio signals are used to power wireless terminals for information transmission. In this paper, we study a WPCN where one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang , Kee-Chaing Chua

We study the beamforming design for multiuser systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). Employing a practical non-linear energy harvesting (EH) model, the design is formulated as a non-convex optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Elena Boshkovska , Xiaoming Chen , Linglong Dai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

For a general energy harvesting (EH) communication network, i.e., a network where the nodes generate their transmit power through EH, we derive the asymptotically optimal online power allocation solution which optimizes a general utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober , Zoran Hadzi-Velkov

This work considers a system with two energy harvesting (EH) nodes transmitting to a common destination over a random access channel. The amount of harvested energy is assumed to be random and independent over time, but correlated among the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Deniz Gunduz , Ozgur Ercetin

In this letter, we propose a practical non-linear energy harvesting model and design a resource allocation algorithm for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. The algorithm design is formulated as a…

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

We consider the remote estimation of a time-correlated signal using an energy harvesting (EH) sensor. The sensor observes the unknown signal and communicates its observations to a remote fusion center using an amplify-and-forward strategy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ayca Ozcelikkale , Tomas McKelvey , Mats Viberg

We study information-theoretic limits for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems employing nonlinear radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) receivers (Rxs). In particular, we consider a SWIPT system with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Rania Morsi , Vahid Jamali , Amelie Hagelauer , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober