Title
On the performance of wireless powered communication with non-linear energy harvesting
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a time-slotted multi-antenna wireless powered communication (WPC) system, where a wireless device first harvests radio frequency (RF) energy from a power station (PS) in the downlink to facilitate information transfer to an information receiving station (IRS) in the uplink. The main goal of this paper is to provide insights and guidelines for the design of practical WPC systems. To this end, we adopt a recently proposed parametric non-linear RF energy harvesting (EH) model, which has been shown to accurately model the end-to-end non-linearity of practical RF EH circuits. In order to enhance the RF power transfer efficiency, maximum ratio transmission is adopted at the PS to focus the energy signals on the wireless device. Furthermore, at the IRS, maximum ratio combining is used. We analyze the outage probability and the average throughput of information transfer, assuming Nakagami-m fading uplink and downlink channels. Moreover, we study the system performance as a function of the number of PS transmit antennas, the number of IRS receive antennas, the transmit power of the PS, the fading severity, the transmission rate of the wireless device, and the EH time duration. In addition, we obtain a fixed point equation for the optimal transmission rate and the optimal EH time duration that maximize the asymptotic throughput for high PS transmit powers. All analytical results are corroborated by simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/SPAWC.2017.8227714
2017 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
nonlinear energy harvesting,multiantenna wireless powered communication system,wireless device,radio frequency energy,power station,information transfer,information receiving station,nonlinear RF energy harvesting model,RF power transfer efficiency,maximum ratio transmission,energy signals,maximum ratio combining,Nakagami-m fading uplink,PS transmit antennas,transmit power,high PS transmit powers
Conference
abs/1702.07881
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-3789
978-1-5090-3010-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rania Morsi1735.56
Elena Boshkovska21164.07
Esmat Ramadan300.34
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng43588189.08
Robert Schober58448488.41