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Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications: A Review of Recent Advances
This article summarizes recent contributions in the broad area of energy
harvesting wireless communications. In particular, we provide the current state
of the art for wireless networks composed of energy harvesting nodes, starting
from the information-theoretic performance limits to transmission scheduling
policies and resource allocation, medium access and networking issues. The
emerging related area of energy transfer for self-sustaining energy harvesting
wireless networks is considered in detail covering both energy cooperation
aspects and simultaneous energy and information transfer. Various potential
models with energy harvesting nodes at different network scales are reviewed as
well as models for energy consumption at the nodes.Comment: To appear in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications
(Special Issue: Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and
Wireless Energy Transfer
Green Cellular Networks: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges
Energy efficiency in cellular networks is a growing concern for cellular
operators to not only maintain profitability, but also to reduce the overall
environment effects. This emerging trend of achieving energy efficiency in
cellular networks is motivating the standardization authorities and network
operators to continuously explore future technologies in order to bring
improvements in the entire network infrastructure. In this article, we present
a brief survey of methods to improve the power efficiency of cellular networks,
explore some research issues and challenges and suggest some techniques to
enable an energy efficient or "green" cellular network. Since base stations
consume a maximum portion of the total energy used in a cellular system, we
will first provide a comprehensive survey on techniques to obtain energy
savings in base stations. Next, we discuss how heterogeneous network deployment
based on micro, pico and femto-cells can be used to achieve this goal. Since
cognitive radio and cooperative relaying are undisputed future technologies in
this regard, we propose a research vision to make these technologies more
energy efficient. Lastly, we explore some broader perspectives in realizing a
"green" cellular network technologyComment: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 table
Energy-Efficient Antenna Selection and Power Allocation for Large-Scale Multiple Antenna Systems with Hybrid Energy Supply
The combination of energy harvesting and large-scale multiple antenna
technologies provides a promising solution for improving the energy efficiency
(EE) by exploiting renewable energy sources and reducing the transmission power
per user and per antenna. However, the introduction of energy harvesting
capabilities into large-scale multiple antenna systems poses many new
challenges for energy-efficient system design due to the intermittent
characteristics of renewable energy sources and limited battery capacity.
Furthermore, the total manufacture cost and the sum power of a large number of
radio frequency (RF) chains can not be ignored, and it would be impractical to
use all the antennas for transmission. In this paper, we propose an
energy-efficient antenna selection and power allocation algorithm to maximize
the EE subject to the constraint of user's quality of service (QoS). An
iterative offline optimization algorithm is proposed to solve the non-convex EE
optimization problem by exploiting the properties of nonlinear fractional
programming. The relationships among maximum EE, selected antenna number,
battery capacity, and EE-SE tradeoff are analyzed and verified through computer
simulations.Comment: IEEE Globecom 2014 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium-Green
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