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# Wireless Networks With RF Energy Harvesting: A Contemporary Survey

22 Jan 2015--Vol. 17, Iss: 2, pp 757-789

TL;DR: This paper presents an overview of the RF-EHNs including system architecture, RF energy harvesting techniques, and existing applications, and explores various key design issues according to the network types, i.e., single-hop networks, multiantenna networks, relay networks, and cognitive radio networks.
Abstract: Radio frequency (RF) energy transfer and harvesting techniques have recently become alternative methods to power the next-generation wireless networks As this emerging technology enables proactive energy replenishment of wireless devices, it is advantageous in supporting applications with quality-of-service requirements In this paper, we present a comprehensive literature review on the research progresses in wireless networks with RF energy harvesting capability, which is referred to as RF energy harvesting networks (RF-EHNs) First, we present an overview of the RF-EHNs including system architecture, RF energy harvesting techniques, and existing applications Then, we present the background in circuit design as well as the state-of-the-art circuitry implementations and review the communication protocols specially designed for RF-EHNs We also explore various key design issues in the development of RF-EHNs according to the network types, ie, single-hop networks, multiantenna networks, relay networks, and cognitive radio networks Finally, we envision some open research directions
Topics: , Wireless network (59%), Cognitive radio (58%)
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• ...ent scopes, specifically Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets), massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive-MIMO) networks, millimeter waves (mmWaves) networks, and energy harvesting networks [9]....

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• ...The paper [145], as an instance, presents an analysis of the spectral efficiency of single-carrier and OFDM transmission in massive MIMO systems that use one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), while a capacity analysis of one-bit quantized MIMO systems with transmitter CSI is reported in…...

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• ...avelength of the RF signals and the distance between an RF energy source and the harvesting node. The harvested RF power from a transmitter in free space can be calculated based on the Friis equation [24] as follows: P R =P T G TG Rλ2 (4πd)2L (1) where P R is the received power, P T is the transmit power, L is the path loss factor, G T is the transmit antenna gain, G R is the receive antenna gain, λ i...

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Abstract: We introduce a new class of problems called network information flow which is inspired by computer network applications. Consider a point-to-point communication network on which a number of information sources are to be multicast to certain sets of destinations. We assume that the information sources are mutually independent. The problem is to characterize the admissible coding rate region. This model subsumes all previously studied models along the same line. We study the problem with one information source, and we have obtained a simple characterization of the admissible coding rate region. Our result can be regarded as the max-flow min-cut theorem for network information flow. Contrary to one's intuition, our work reveals that it is in general not optimal to regard the information to be multicast as a "fluid" which can simply be routed or replicated. Rather, by employing coding at the nodes, which we refer to as network coding, bandwidth can in general be saved. This finding may have significant impact on future design of switching systems.

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• ...Network coding [231] is well-known to be energy efficient in information transmission....

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