Journal of Communications and Networks

The Korean Institute of Commucations and Information Sciences (한국통신학회)
권호 표지

Sum-Rate Optimal Power Policies for Energy Harvesting Transmitters in an Interference Channel

  • Tutuncuoglu, Kaya (Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory (WCAN), Electrical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University) ;
  • Yener, Aylin (Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory (WCAN), Electrical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University)
  • Received : 2011.10.11
  • Published : 2012.04.30
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

This paper considers a two-user Gaussian interference channel with energy harvesting transmitters. Different than conventional battery powered wireless nodes, energy harvesting transmitters have to adapt transmission to availability of energy at a particular instant. In this setting, the optimal power allocation problem to maximize the sum throughput with a given deadline is formulated. The convergence of the proposed iterative coordinate descent method for the problem is proved and the short-term throughput maximizing offline power allocation policy is found. Examples for interference regions with known sum capacities are given with directional water-filling interpretations. Next, stochastic data arrivals are addressed. Finally, online and/or distributed near-optimal policies are proposed. Performance of the proposed algorithms are demonstrated through simulations.

Keywords

References

  1. A. Kansal, J. Hsu, S. Zahedi, and M. B. Srivastava, "Power management in energy harvesting sensor networks," ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Systems (TECS)-Special Section LCTES, vol. 6, no. 4, Sept. 2007.
  2. V. Sharma, U. Mukherji, V. Joseph, and S. Gupta, "Optimal energy management policies for energy harvesting sensor nodes," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1326-1336, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2010.04.080749
  3. M. Gatzianas, L. Georgiadis, and L. Tassiulas, "Control of wireless networks with rechargeable batteries," IEEE Trans.Wireless Commun., vol. 9, pp. 581-593, Feb. 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2010.080903
  4. J. Yang and S. Ulukus, "Optimal packet scheduling in an energy harvesting communication system," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 220-230, Jan. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2011.112811.100349
  5. K. Tutuncuoglu and A. Yener, "Optimum transmission policies for battery limited energy harvesting nodes," to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., Mar. 2012.
  6. B. Devillers and D. Gunduz. (2011, 9). arxiv. [Online]. Available: http:// arxiv.org/abs/1109.5490.
  7. O. Ozel, K. Tutuncuoglu, J. Yang, S. Ulukus, and A. Yener, "Transmission with energy harvesting nodes in fading wireless channels: Optimal policies," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1732-1743, Sept. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2011.110921
  8. J. Yang, O. Ozel, and S. Ulukus, "Broadcasting with an energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 571-583, Feb. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2011.120911.101813
  9. M. Antepli, E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, and H. Erkal, "Optimal packet scheduling on an energy harvesting broadcast link," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1721-1731, Sept. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2011.110920
  10. J. Yang and S. Ulukus, "Optimal packet scheduling in a multiple access channel with rechargeable nodes," in Proc. ICC, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
  11. H. Sato, "The capacity of the gaussian interference channel under strong interference (corresp.)," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 786-788, 1981. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1981.1056416
  12. X. Shang, G. Kramer, and B. Chen, "A new outer bound and the noisyinterference sum-rate capacity for gaussian interference channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 689-699, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2008.2009793
  13. A. Motahari and A. Khandani, "Capacity bounds for the gaussian interference channel," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 620-643, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2008.2009807
  14. O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, "Achieving the capacity region boundary of fading CDMA channels via generalized iterative waterfilling," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 3215-3223, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2006.04785
  15. D. Bertsekas, Nonlinear programming. Athena Scientific, 1999.
  16. A. Goldsmith and P. Varaiya, "Capacity of fading channels with channel side information," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1986-1992, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1109/18.641562
  17. A. Carleial, "A case where interference does not reduce capacity," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 21, p. 569, 1975. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1975.1055432