Wireless Powered Communication: Opportunities and Challenges
, 2014 The performance of wireless communication is fundamentally constrained by the limited battery life of wireless devices, whose operations are frequently disrupted due to the need of manual battery replacement/recharging.
Bi, Suzhi, Ho, Chin Keong, Zhang, Rui
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Monitoring for Rare Events in a Wireless Powered Communication mmWave Sensor Network
Sensors, 2020 The use of a wireless sensor network to monitor an area of interest for possible hazardous events has become a common practice. The difficulty of replacing or recharging sensor batteries dictates the use of energy harvesting as a means to extend the ...
Michael Koutsioumpos +3 more
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Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks with RF Energy Harvesting and Transfer [PDF]
, 2014 Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and transfer techniques have recently become alternative methods to power the next generation of wireless networks. As this emerging technology enables proactive replenishment of wireless devices, it is advantageous
Han, Zhu +3 more
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Energy-efficient off-body communication nodes with receive diversity [PDF]
, 2013 Off-body wireless communication applications range from fall-detection systems for the elderly to monitoring networks for rescue workers. Further development of practical body-worn systems requires compact, low-cost and low-power battery-powered ...
Moerman, Ingrid +3 more
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RobustnessâBased Transmission Strategy for WirelessâPowered Communication Networks
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022 In the wireless powered communication network (WPCN), the deployed nodes that harvest energy from the power station (PS) and then transmit data to the access point (AP) may waste wireless information transmission (WIT) opportunities due to the suffered faults.
Xiaoying Liu +4 more
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Large-Scale Wireless-Powered Networks With Backscatter Communications—A Comprehensive Survey
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2020 Massive and ubiquitous deployment of devices in networks of fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless has necessitated the development of ultra-low-power wireless communication paradigms.
Fatemeh Rezaei +2 more
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PluralisMAC: a generic multi-MAC framework for heterogeneous, multiservice wireless networks, applied to smart containers [PDF]
, 2012 Developing energy-efficient MAC protocols for lightweight wireless systems has been a challenging task for decades because of the specific requirements of various applications and the varying environments in which wireless systems are deployed.
De Mil, Pieter +4 more
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Wirelessly Powered Backscatter Communication Networks: Modeling, Coverage and Capacity [PDF]
, 2016 Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) will connect billions of small computing devices embedded in the environment and support their device-to-device (D2D) communication.
Han, Kaifeng, Huang, Kaibin
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Spatial Throughput Maximization of Wireless Powered Communication Networks
, 2015 Wireless charging is a promising way to power wireless nodes' transmissions. This paper considers new dual-function access points (APs) which are able to support the energy/information transmission to/from wireless nodes.
Che, Yue Ling, Duan, Lingjie, Zhang, Rui
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Relay Selection, Scheduling, and Power Control in Wireless-Powered Cooperative Communication Networks [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2020 Relay nodes are used to improve the throughput, delay and reliability performance of energy harvesting networks by assisting both energy and information transfer between information nodes and access point. Previous studies on radio frequency energy harvesting networks are limited to single source single/multiple relay networks.
Aysun Gurur Onalan +2 more
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