Title
On the Capacity of SWIPT Systems with a Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Circuit.
Abstract
In this paper, we study information-theoretic limits for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems employing a practical nonlinear radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) receiver. In particular, we consider a three-node system with one transmitter that broadcasts a common signal to separated information decoding (ID) and EH receivers. Owing to the nonlinearity of the EH receiver circuit, the efficiency of wireless power transfer depends significantly on the waveform of the transmitted signal. In this paper, we aim to answer the following fundamental question: What is the optimal input distribution of the transmit waveform that maximizes the rate of the ID receiver for a given required harvested power at the EH receiver? In particular, we study the capacity of a SWIPT system impaired by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) under average-power (AP) and peak-power (PP) constraints at the transmitter and an EH constraint at the EH receiver. Using Hermite polynomial bases, we prove that the optimal capacityachieving input distribution that maximizes the rate-energy region is unique and discrete with a finite number of mass points. Our numerical results show that the rate-energy region is enlarged for a larger PP constraint and that the rate loss of the considered SWIPT system compared to the AWGN channel without EH receiver is reduced by increasing the AP budget.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/icc.2018.8422269
international conference on communications
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1711.01082
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rania Morsi1735.56
Vahid Jamali239537.50
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng33588189.08
Robert Schober48448488.41