Title
Energy Provision Minimization in Wireless Powered Communication Networks With Network Throughput Demand: TDMA or NOMA?
Abstract
Recently, the newly emerging wireless powered communication network (WPCN) has drawn significant interests, where the network nodes are powered by the energy harvested from the radio-frequency (RF) signal. This paper focuses on the widely studied WPCN, where one hybrid sink (H-sink) coordinates the wireless energy/information transmissions to/from a set of one-hop nodes powered by the harvested RF energy only, and aims to minimize the network-throughput constrained H-sink’s energy provision (EP). Specifically, we investigate the performance of two important MAC protocols: time-division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). For both the TDMA-based WPCN (T-WPCN) and NOMA-based WPCN (N-WPCN), we first formulate the EP minimization problems as the non-linear optimization problems, then transform them into convex problems, and finally propose an efficient algorithm, which jointly uses the golden-section search and bisection search methods to determine the optimal time allocation of H-sink’s energy transfer and each node’s information transmission as well as the optimal H-sink’s transmit power. Furthermore, for the scenarios where the circuit power is negligible, we first prove that the optimal H-sink’s transmit power is the maximum allowable value, then prove theoretically that the NOMA and TDMA achieve the same EP, and also present a more efficient algorithm for the EP minimization problem. Simulation results demonstrate that the TDMA outperforms NOMA when the circuit power is non-negligible because the circuit energy consumption of NOMA accounts for a large percentage of the total energy consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2921584
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Throughput,NOMA,Time division multiple access,Radio frequency,Wireless communication,Resource management,Minimization
Noma,Telecommunications network,Wireless,Transmitter power output,Computer science,Node (networking),Electronic engineering,Throughput,Time division multiple access,Energy consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
9
0090-6778
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.44
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaikai Chi111420.18
Zhebiao Chen280.79
Kechen Zheng3389.26
Yi-hua Zhu4287.45
Jiajia Liu514011.42