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Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

This paper studies the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multiuser wireless system, in which distributed transmitters send independent messages to their respective receivers, and at the same time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Seunghyun Lee , Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) capability provide a practical means to deploy a large number of wireless powered sensing devices into areas with no access to persistent power supplies. The UAV can charge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Kai Li , Wei Ni , Eduardo Tovar

This letter presents a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for joint time allocation and power control in a cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). The CIoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Nadia Abdolkhani , Nada Abdel Khalek , Walaa Hamouda , Iyad Dayoub

This article studies the efficiency of secrecy data offloading for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-integrated mobile-edge computing (MEC) incorporating wireless power transfer (WPT) within an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Gia-Huy Nguyen , Anh-Nhat Nguyen , Minh-Sang Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , Tung-Son Ngo , Ngoc-Anh Bui , Phuong-Chi Le , Manh-Duc Hoang

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which a UAV equipped with a directional antenna is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to charge two energy receivers (ERs) on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to enable wireless communications. Due to their characteristics, such as the ability to hover and carry cargo, UAVs can serve as communications nodes, including Wi-Fi Access Points and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has been proposed to offer communication services and transfer power to the energy harvesting receiver (EHR) concurrently. However, existing works mainly focused on static EHRs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose a unified SWIPT signal and its architecture design in order to take advantage of both single tone and multi-tone signaling by adjusting only the power allocation ratio of a unified signal. For this, we design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jong Jin Park , Jong Ho Moon , Hyeon Ho Jang , Dong In Kim

The performance of Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) is mainly constrained by the received Radio-Frequency (RF) signal strength. To tackle this problem, we introduce an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yang Zhao , Bruno Clerckx , Zhenyuan Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) systems offer significant advantages in coverage and deployment flexibility, but suffer from endurance limitations due to the limited onboard energy. This paper proposes to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Hong Ren , Zhenkun Zhang , Zhangjie Peng , Li Li , Cunhua Pan

In contrast to terrestrial wireless networks, dynamic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks are susceptible to unexpected link failures arising from UAV breakdowns or the depletion of its batteries. Drastic user rate fluctuations and sum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Linghui Ge , Xiao Liang , Hua Zhang , Peihao Dong , Jianxin Liao , Jingyu Wang

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system is proposed. More particularly, an STAR-RIS is deployed to assist in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Ao Huang , Shibiao Xu

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

Cellular networks equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can be beneficial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited onboard computation power and battery life-time. In this paper, we compare energy consumption of a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 M. Mahdi Azari , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we study the resource allocation algorithm design for energy-efficient simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. The considered system comprises a transmitter, an information receiver, and multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Shiyang Leng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Data collection in massive Internet of Things networks requires novel and flexible methods. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen as a means to collect data rapidly even in remote areas without static telecommunication…

The substantial growth in wireless data traffic, and the emergence of delay-sensitive application/services requiring ultra-low latency, has resulted into a new Mobile Network (MN) design paradigm called Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Thembelihle Dlamini

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) supports ocean sensing and offshore monitoring but requires coordinated mobility and energy-aware communication to sustain long-term operation. This letter proposes a multi-AUV framework that jointly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Mohamed Afouene Melki , Mohammad Shehab , Mohamed-Slim Alouini