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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
Wireless Information Transfer with Opportunistic Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is a promising solution to prolong the operation of
energy-constrained wireless networks. In particular, scavenging energy from
ambient radio signals, namely wireless energy harvesting (WEH), has recently
drawn significant attention. In this paper, we consider a point-to-point
wireless link over the narrowband flat-fading channel subject to time-varying
co-channel interference. It is assumed that the receiver has no fixed power
supplies and thus needs to replenish energy opportunistically via WEH from the
unintended interference and/or the intended signal sent by the transmitter. We
further assume a single-antenna receiver that can only decode information or
harvest energy at any time due to the practical circuit limitation. Therefore,
it is important to investigate when the receiver should switch between the two
modes of information decoding (ID) and energy harvesting (EH), based on the
instantaneous channel and interference condition. In this paper, we derive the
optimal mode switching rule at the receiver to achieve various trade-offs
between wireless information transfer and energy harvesting. Specifically, we
determine the minimum transmission outage probability for delay-limited
information transfer and the maximum ergodic capacity for no-delay-limited
information transfer versus the maximum average energy harvested at the
receiver, which are characterized by the boundary of so-called "outage-energy"
region and "rate-energy" region, respectively. Moreover, for the case when the
channel state information (CSI) is known at the transmitter, we investigate the
joint optimization of transmit power control, information and energy transfer
scheduling, and the receiver's mode switching. Our results provide useful
guidelines for the efficient design of emerging wireless communication systems
powered by opportunistic WEH.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communicatio
Recent Advances in Joint Wireless Energy and Information Transfer
In this paper, we provide an overview of the recent advances in
microwave-enabled wireless energy transfer (WET) technologies and their
applications in wireless communications. Specifically, we divide our
discussions into three parts. First, we introduce the state-of-the-art WET
technologies and the signal processing techniques to maximize the energy
transfer efficiency. Then, we discuss an interesting paradigm named
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where energy and
information are jointly transmitted using the same radio waveform. At last, we
review the recent progress in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN),
where wireless devices communicate using the power harvested by means of WET.
Extensions and future directions are also discussed in each of these areas.Comment: Conference submission accepted by ITW 201
Save and Transmit Scheme for Energy Harvesting MIMO Systems with TAS/MRC
In this paper, we propose and analyze a wirelesstransmitter, for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems,that relies exclusively on energy harvesting. We consider wirelesstransceivers where the transmitter harvests the total requiredenergy from its environment through various sources. We assumethat both transmitter and receiver are equipped with multipleantennas. At the transmitter, a single transmit antenna thatmaximizes the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver isselected for transmission. The remaining antennas are used forenergy harvesting. At the receiver side, maximal-ratio com-bining (MRC) is used. Furthermore, we assume that all theharvested power is used to power the transmitter immediately.The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed in terms ofoutage probability (OP), symbol error rate (SER) and channelcapacity. The harvested energy comes from random sourcesand is considered as a random variable. Assuming that theharvested power follows a gamma distribution and the MIMOchannel is a Rayleigh flat fading process, we derive a closed-form expressions for the exact cumulative distribution function(CDF) and probability density function (PDF) of the SNR. Basedon this, we analyze the performance of the proposed energyharvesting scheme. The obtained analytical results are validatedby comparing them with the results of Monte-Carlo simulations
Physical layer security jamming : Theoretical limits and practical designs in wireless networks
Physical layer security has been recently recognized as a promising new
design paradigm to provide security in wireless networks. In addition to the
existing conventional cryptographic methods, physical layer security exploits
the dynamics of fading channels to enhance secured wireless links. In this
approach, jamming plays a key role by generating noise signals to confuse the
potential eavesdroppers, and significantly improves quality and reliability of
secure communications between legitimate terminals. This article presents
theoretical limits and practical designs of jamming approaches for physical
layer security. In particular, the theoretical limits explore the achievable
secrecy rates of user cooperation based jamming whilst the centralized, and
game theoretic based precoding techniques are reviewed for practical
implementations. In addition, the emerging wireless energy harvesting
techniques are exploited to harvest the required energy to transmit jamming
signals. Future directions of these approaches, and the associated research
challenges are also briefly outlined
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