Title
Communication over a time correlated channel with an energy harvesting transmitter
Abstract
In this work, communication over a time-correlated point-to-point wireless channel is studied for an energy harvesting (EH) transmitter. In this model, we take into account the time and energy cost of acquiring channel state information. At the beginning of the time slot, the EH transmitter, has to choose among three possible actions: i) deferring the transmission to save its energy for future use, ii) transmitting without sensing, and iii) sensing the channel before transmission. At each time slot, the transmitter chooses one of the three possible actions to maximize the total expected discounted number of bits transmitted over an infinite time horizon. This problem can be formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) which is then converted to an ordinary MDP by introducing a belief on the channel state, and the optimal policy is shown to exhibit a threshold behavior on the belief state, with battery-dependent threshold values. Optimal threshold values and corresponding optimal performance are characterized through numerical simulations, and it is shown that having the sensing action and intelligently using it to track the channel state improves the achievable long-term throughput significantly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISWCS.2017.8108135
2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy harvesting transmitter,wireless channel,channel state information,Markov decision process,time-correlated point-to-point wireless channel
Transmitter,Time horizon,Markov process,Wireless,Computer science,Partially observable Markov decision process,Simulation,Control theory,Communication channel,Real-time computing,Throughput,Channel state information
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
abs/1902.04567
2154-0217
978-1-5386-2914-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad153.45
Deniz Gündüz21649129.08
Özgür Erçetin314622.96