67 research outputs found
Information-Theoretic Analysis of an Energy Harvesting Communication System
In energy harvesting communication systems, an exogenous recharge process
supplies energy for the data transmission and arriving energy can be buffered
in a battery before consumption. Transmission is interrupted if there is not
sufficient energy. We address communication with such random energy arrivals in
an information-theoretic setting. Based on the classical additive white
Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel model, we study the coding problem with random
energy arrivals at the transmitter. We show that the capacity of the AWGN
channel with stochastic energy arrivals is equal to the capacity with an
average power constraint equal to the average recharge rate. We provide two
different capacity achieving schemes: {\it save-and-transmit} and {\it
best-effort-transmit}. Next, we consider the case where energy arrivals have
time-varying average in a larger time scale. We derive the optimal offline
power allocation for maximum average throughput and provide an algorithm that
finds the optimal power allocation.Comment: Published in IEEE PIMRC, September 201
Timely Status Updating Through Intermittent Sensing and Transmission
We consider a novel intermittent status updating model where an energy
harvesting node with an intermittent energy source performs status updating to
a receiver through non-preemptive sensing and transmission operations. Each
operation costs a single energy recharge of the node and the node cannot
harvest energy while in operation. The sensing time for each update is
independent with a general distribution. The transmission queue has a single
server receiving packets generated after sensing operation, general service
time distribution and a single data buffer to save the latest arriving update
packet. Once energy is harvested, the node has to decide whether to activate
sensing to generate a new update or transmission to send the existing update
(if any) to the receiver. We prove that average peak age of information (AoI)
at the receiver is minimized by a threshold-based stopping rule that accepts
only young packets to the transmission server. We then use this result to
address average AoI optimization over the considered stopping rules through
novel hybrid waiting and thresholding schemes. Our numerical results show the
improvements in average AoI maintained by hybrid schemes
Broadcasting with an Energy Harvesting Rechargeable Transmitter
In this paper, we investigate the transmission completion time minimization
problem in a two-user additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) broadcast channel,
where the transmitter is able to harvest energy from the nature, using a
rechargeable battery. The harvested energy is modeled to arrive at the
transmitter randomly during the course of transmissions. The transmitter has a
fixed number of packets to be delivered to each receiver. Our goal is to
minimize the time by which all of the packets for both users are delivered to
their respective destinations. To this end, we optimize the transmit powers and
transmission rates intended for both users. We first analyze the structural
properties of the optimal transmission policy. We prove that the optimal total
transmit power has the same structure as the optimal single-user transmit
power. We also prove that there exists a cut-off power level for the stronger
user. If the optimal total transmit power is lower than this cut-off level, all
transmit power is allocated to the stronger user, and when the optimal total
transmit power is larger than this cut-off level, all transmit power above this
level is allocated to the weaker user. Based on these structural properties of
the optimal policy, we propose an algorithm that yields the globally optimal
off-line scheduling policy. Our algorithm is based on the idea of reducing the
two-user broadcast channel problem into a single-user problem as much as
possible.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, October
201
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