Energy-efficient resource allocation for bidirectional wireless power and information transfer over interference channels

Kisong Lee, Hyun Ho Choi

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Abstract

Energy efficiency is an important performance metric for the sustainable operation of energy-limited communication networks. This study investigates an energy-efficient resource allocation strategy to maximize the energy efficiency of wireless-powered bidirectional communication over interference channels. The receivers in the system harvest energy and decode information simultaneously using a time switching or power splitting policy from data signals sent by transmitters in the forward link. The harvested energy is subsequently used to send response signals back to the transmitters in the backward link. Our objective is to jointly optimize the transmit power of the transmitters and the energy harvesting ratio of the receivers to maximize the energy efficiency of the entire system while maintaining the minimum required data rates in both the forward and backward links. Considering the non-convexity and NP-hardness of this optimization problem, we first apply nonlinear fractional programming and a dual method to derive an analytical expression for each control parameter and then propose an iterative algorithm to find suboptimal solutions with low computational complexity. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm adjusts both the transmit power and energy harvesting ratio adaptively considering the co-channel interference and thus achieves near-optimal energy efficiency performance within a short computation time.

Original languageEnglish
Article number103887
JournalJournal of Network and Computer Applications
Volume227
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2024

Keywords

  • Energy efficiency
  • Joint optimization
  • Simultaneous wireless information and power transmission
  • Wireless power transfer

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