• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.925-926
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is intended to improve the efficiency of energy harvesting through the optimal design of the PZT system and the electrical system. To improve the efficiency of energy harvesting, it is necessary to increase the output voltage generated from the PZT. In this study, first the mounting position and shape of the PZT which is attached to the cantilever were optimized. Second electric circuit was optimized by using a series connection of a circuit and the electrical resonance frequency. As a result, we improve the output voltage about 5V.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2014

As energy harvesting communication systems emerge, there is a need for transmission schemes that dynamically adapt to the energy harvesting process. In this paper, after exhibiting a finite-horizon online throughput-maximizing scheduling problem formulation and the structure of its optimal solution within a dynamic programming formulation, a low complexity online scheduling policy is proposed. The policy exploits the existence of thresholds for choosing rate and power levels as a function of stored energy, harvest state and time until the end of the horizon. The policy, which is based on computing an expected threshold, performs close to optimal on a wide range of example energy harvest patterns. Moreover, it achieves higher throughput values for a given delay, than throughput-optimal online policies developed based on infinite-horizon formulations in recent literature. The solution is extended to include ergodic time-varying (fading) channels, and a corresponding low complexity policy is proposed and evaluated for this case as well.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.151-161
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• 2012

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.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.403-413
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• 2017

The present article encompasses a nonlinear finite element (FE) and genetic algorithm (GA) based optimal vibration energy harvesting from nonprismatic piezo-laminated cantilever beams. Three cases of cross section profiles (such as linear, parabolic and cubic) are modelled to analyse the geometric nonlinear effects on the output responses such as displacement, voltage, and power. The simultaneous effects of taper ratios (such as breadth and height taper) on the output power are also studied. The FE based nonlinear dynamic equation of motion has been solved by an implicit integration method (i.e., Newmark method in conjunction with the Newton-Raphson method). Besides this, a real coded GA based constrained optimization scheme has also been proposed to determine the best set of design variables for optimal harvesting of power within the safe limits of beam stress and PZT breakdown voltage.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.60-64
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 multi-tag를 사용하는 backscatter communication에 MIMO beamforming 기술을 적용하여, 수신신호의 BER과 energy harvesting을 효율을 증대시키고자 한다. multi-tag와 Hybrid-AP(H-AP) 사이의 communication을 통해 기본 채널 정보를 얻었으며, 얻은 채널정보를 이용하여, Spatial Channel Model(SCM)의 전송 시나리오에 맞는 파라미터를 설정하고 SCM 채널을 생성하였다. 그리고 MIMO Beamforming 기술을 이용하여, H-AP는 각 tag에 SINR을 올리기 위한 optimal power를 갖는 신호를 보낸다. tag에서는 optimal power를 갖는 신호를 수신하여 backscatter communication을 수행하고, receiver에서는 multi-tag가 보내는 backscatter 신호를 수신하여 time switching 기법으로 Energy harvesting을 수행한다. 따라서 Receiver에서 energy harvesting 효율과 backscatter 신호의 BER 성능 향상을 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.215-223
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• 2015

에너지 하베스팅 기술은 에너지가 제약적인 환경에 있는 통신 기기가 정보 송신에 필요한 에너지를 얻는 충전 기술이다. 최근에 제안된 에너지 하베스팅 기술은 주변의 무선 고주파 신호로부터 에너지를 저장한다. 대표적으로 시간 전환 (time switching, TS) 과 전력 분할 (power splitting, PS) 의 기술이 있다. 본 논문은 무선 인지 중계 네트워크에서 이차 사용자의 중계기가 정보 전송을 위해 에너지 하베스팅 기술을 사용할 때 최적의 에너지 하베스팅 시간을 분배하는 방법을 제안한다. 이차 사용자의 중계기는 시간 전환 기술을 사용하여 이차 사용자의 송신기에서 보낸 신호로부터 정보와 에너지를 전달받는다. 이차 사용자의 순시적 처리량을 최대화 하기 위하여 이차 사용자 중계기의 하베스팅 시간을 최적화 한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 고정된 하베스팅 시간을 사용하는 방식보다 본 논문에서 제안한 방법으로 구한 최적의 하베스팅 시간을 사용하는 것이 더 큰 순시적 처리량을 얻음을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.4625-4641
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• 2016

The performances of two commonly used feature detectors for wireless energy-harvesting cognitive radio systems are compared with the energy detector under energy causality and collision constraints. The optimal sensing duration is obtained by analyzing the effect of the detection threshold on the average throughput and collision probability. Numerical examples show that the covariance detector has the optimal sensing duration depending on an appropriate choice of the detection threshold, but no optimal sensing duration exists for the ratio of average energy to minimum eigenvalue detector.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4220-4241
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• 2017

For the downlink energy-harvesting small cell network, this paper proposes an interference management algorithm based on distributed coalitional game. The cooperative interference management problem of the energy-harvesting small cells is modeled as a coalitional game with transfer utility. Based on the energy harvesting strategy of the small cells, the time sharing mode of the small cells in the same coalition is determined, and an optimization model is constructed to maximize the total system rate of the energy-harvesting small cells. Using the distributed algorithm for coalition formation proposed in this paper, the stable coalition structure, optimal time sharing strategy and optimal power distribution are found to maximize the total utility of the small cell system. The performance of the proposed algorithm is discussed and analyzed finally, and it is proved that this algorithm can converge to a stable coalition structure with reasonable complexity. The simulations show that the total system rate of the proposed algorithm is superior to that of the non-cooperative algorithm in the case of dense deployment of small cells, and the proposed algorithm can converge quickly.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2012

Energy harvesting has emerged as a powerful technology for complementing current battery-powered communication systems in order to extend their lifetime. In this paper a general framework is introduced for the optimization of communication systems in which the transmitter is able to harvest energy from its environment. Assuming that the energy arrival process is known non-causally at the transmitter, the structure of the optimal transmission scheme, which maximizes the amount of transmitted data by a given deadline, is identified. Our framework includes models with continuous energy arrival as well as battery constraints. A battery that suffers from energy leakage is studied further, and the optimal transmission scheme is characterized for a constant leakage rate.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.902-912
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• 2016

Recent advances in energy harvesting (EH) technology have motivated the adoption of rechargeable mobile devices for communications. In this paper, we consider a point-to-point (P2P) wireless communication system in which an EH transmitter with a non-ideal rechargeable battery is required to send a given fixed number of bits to the receiver before they expire according to a preset delay constraint. Due to the possible energy loss in the storage process, the harvest-use-and-store (HUS) architecture is adopted. We characterize the properties of the optimal solutions, for additive white Gaussian channels (AWGNs) and then block-fading channels, that maximize the energy efficiency (i.e., battery residual) subject to a given rate requirement. Interestingly, it is shown that the optimal solution has a water-filling interpretation with double thresholds and that both thresholds are monotonic. Based on this, we investigate the optimal double-threshold based allocation policy and devise an algorithm to achieve the solution. Numerical results are provided to validate the theoretical analysis and to compare the optimal solutions with existing schemes.