Abstract
As the mobile traffic explodes, direct device-to-device communications attract much attention as one of next-generation technologies to increase the spatial spectrum efficiency in multichannel wireless networks. On the other hand, as battery-powered mobile devices interrupt user experience due to limited battery capacity, wireless power transfer has emerged as a convenient and perpetual power supply. However, current circuit technologies cannot support both energy harvesting and information decoding at the same time, and thus the time-division-multiple-access approach is often used for either data transmission or power transfer at a time, which requires joint scheduling of data transmissions and wireless power transfer. In this paper, we investigate the joint scheduling problem of multi-channel data transmissions and wireless power transfer, formulate the joint problem using a unified framework, and identify new difficulties in efficient resource allocation. We also develop a preliminary solution that achieves good empirical performance in single-hop D2D network scenarios.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7919387 |
Pages (from-to) | 180-188 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Communications and Networks |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Apr |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Computer Networks and Communications