12 research outputs found
Throughput and ergodic capacity of wireless energy harvesting based DF relaying network
In this paper, we consider a decode-and-forward (DF) relaying network based on wireless energy harvesting. The energy constrained relay node first harvests energy through radio-frequency (RF) signals from the source node. Next, the relay node uses the harvested energy to forward the decoded source information to the destination node. The source node transfers energy and information to the relay node through two mechanisms, i) time switching-based relaying (TSR) and ii) power splitting-based relaying (PSR). Considering wireless energy harvesting constraint at the relay node, we derive the exact analytical expressions of the achievable throughput and ergodic capacity of a DF relaying network for both TSR and PSR schemes. Through numerical analysis, we study the throughput performance of the overall system for different system parameters, such as energy harvesting time, power splitting ratio, and signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). In particular, the throughput performance of the PSR scheme outperforms the throughput performance of the TSR scheme for a wide range of SNRs.ARC Discovery Projects Grant DP14010113
Secure Beamforming For MIMO Broadcasting With Wireless Information And Power Transfer
This paper considers a basic MIMO information-energy (I-E) broadcast system,
where a multi-antenna transmitter transmits information and energy
simultaneously to a multi-antenna information receiver and a dual-functional
multi-antenna energy receiver which is also capable of decoding information.
Due to the open nature of wireless medium and the dual purpose of information
and energy transmission, secure information transmission while ensuring
efficient energy harvesting is a critical issue for such a broadcast system.
Assuming that physical layer security techniques are applied to the system to
ensure secure transmission from the transmitter to the information receiver, we
study beamforming design to maximize the achievable secrecy rate subject to a
total power constraint and an energy harvesting constraint. First, based on
semidefinite relaxation, we propose global optimal solutions to the secrecy
rate maximization (SRM) problem in the single-stream case and a specific
full-stream case where the difference of Gram matrices of the channel matrices
is positive semidefinite. Then, we propose a simple iterative algorithm named
inexact block coordinate descent (IBCD) algorithm to tackle the SRM problem of
general case with arbitrary number of streams. We proves that the IBCD
algorithm can monotonically converge to a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) solution to
the SRM problem. Furthermore, we extend the IBCD algorithm to the joint
beamforming and artificial noise design problem. Finally, simulations are
performed to validate the performance of the proposed beamforming algorithms.Comment: Submitted to journal for possible publication. First submission to
arXiv Mar. 14 201