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Wireless Information and Energy Transfer for Two-Hop Non-Regenerative MIMO-OFDM Relay Networks
This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and energy
transfer for the non-regenerative multipleinput multiple-output orthogonal
frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) relaying system. By considering two
practical receiver architectures, we present two protocols, time switchingbased
relaying (TSR) and power splitting-based relaying (PSR). To explore the system
performance limit, we formulate two optimization problems to maximize the
end-to-end achievable information rate with the full channel state information
(CSI) assumption. Since both problems are non-convex and have no known solution
method, we firstly derive some explicit results by theoretical analysis and
then design effective algorithms for them. Numerical results show that the
performances of both protocols are greatly affected by the relay position.
Specifically, PSR and TSR show very different behaviors to the variation of
relay position. The achievable information rate of PSR monotonically decreases
when the relay moves from the source towards the destination, but for TSR, the
performance is relatively worse when the relay is placed in the middle of the
source and the destination. This is the first time to observe such a
phenomenon. In addition, it is also shown that PSR always outperforms TSR in
such a MIMO-OFDM relaying system. Moreover, the effect of the number of
antennas and the number of subcarriers are also discussed.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, to appear in IEEE Selected Areas in
Communication
Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks
In this chapter, we present a literature survey of an emerging, cutting-edge,
and multi-disciplinary field of research at the intersection of Robotics and
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) which we refer to as Robotic Wireless Sensor
Networks (RWSN). We define a RWSN as an autonomous networked multi-robot system
that aims to achieve certain sensing goals while meeting and maintaining
certain communication performance requirements, through cooperative control,
learning and adaptation. While both of the component areas, i.e., Robotics and
WSN, are very well-known and well-explored, there exist a whole set of new
opportunities and research directions at the intersection of these two fields
which are relatively or even completely unexplored. One such example would be
the use of a set of robotic routers to set up a temporary communication path
between a sender and a receiver that uses the controlled mobility to the
advantage of packet routing. We find that there exist only a limited number of
articles to be directly categorized as RWSN related works whereas there exist a
range of articles in the robotics and the WSN literature that are also relevant
to this new field of research. To connect the dots, we first identify the core
problems and research trends related to RWSN such as connectivity,
localization, routing, and robust flow of information. Next, we classify the
existing research on RWSN as well as the relevant state-of-the-arts from
robotics and WSN community according to the problems and trends identified in
the first step. Lastly, we analyze what is missing in the existing literature,
and identify topics that require more research attention in the future
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