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RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Networks: Technical Challenges and Limitations
The increasing demand for spectral and energy efficient communication
networks has spurred a great interest in energy harvesting (EH) cognitive radio
networks (CRNs). Such a revolutionary technology represents a paradigm shift in
the development of wireless networks, as it can simultaneously enable the
efficient use of the available spectrum and the exploitation of radio frequency
(RF) energy in order to reduce the reliance on traditional energy sources. This
is mainly triggered by the recent advancements in microelectronics that puts
forward RF energy harvesting as a plausible technique in the near future. On
the other hand, it is suggested that the operation of a network relying on
harvested energy needs to be redesigned to allow the network to reliably
function in the long term. To this end, the aim of this survey paper is to
provide a comprehensive overview of the recent development and the challenges
regarding the operation of CRNs powered by RF energy. In addition, the
potential open issues that might be considered for the future research are also
discussed in this paper.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Accepted in IEEE Communications Magazin
DTER: Schedule Optimal RF Energy Request and Harvest for Internet of Things
We propose a new energy harvesting strategy that uses a dedicated energy
source (ES) to optimally replenish energy for radio frequency (RF) energy
harvesting powered Internet of Things. Specifically, we develop a two-step dual
tunnel energy requesting (DTER) strategy that minimizes the energy consumption
on both the energy harvesting device and the ES. Besides the causality and
capacity constraints that are investigated in the existing approaches, DTER
also takes into account the overhead issue and the nonlinear charge
characteristics of an energy storage component to make the proposed strategy
practical. Both offline and online scenarios are considered in the second step
of DTER. To solve the nonlinear optimization problem of the offline scenario,
we convert the design of offline optimal energy requesting problem into a
classic shortest path problem and thus a global optimal solution can be
obtained through dynamic programming (DP) algorithms. The online suboptimal
transmission strategy is developed as well. Simulation study verifies that the
online strategy can achieve almost the same energy efficiency as the global
optimal solution in the long term
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