Performance Analysis and Optimization for SWIPT Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper investigates and optimizes the performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in wireless sensor networks over Nakagami-m fading channels. In the considered system, there is one mobile reader (R), which is equipped with one transmit antenna and one receive ant...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on communications 2017-05, Vol.65 (5), p.2291-2302
Main Authors: Pan, Gaofeng, Lei, Hongjiang, Yuan, Yi, Ding, Zhiguo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitive sensors
Channels
Computer simulation
Distribution functions
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy harvesting
ergodic capacity
Fading channels
Mobile communication
Monte Carlo simulation
Nakagami-m fading channels
Optimization
outage probability
Power transfer
Probability density functions
Radio broadcasting
Receiving antennas
Remote sensors
Sensor systems
Sensors
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer
Splitting
throughput
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:This paper investigates and optimizes the performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in wireless sensor networks over Nakagami-m fading channels. In the considered system, there is one mobile reader (R), which is equipped with one transmit antenna and one receive antenna, and a group of passive sensors. The information delivery includes two stages: (1) R broadcasts a command with radio-frequency energy to the sensors, which adopt time splitting (TS)/power splitting (PS) schemes to harvest energy and (2) sensors deliver their information to R over orthogonal channels by using the harvested energy. In this paper, we propose a unified framework to study and optimize the impact of SWIPT on the system performance with both TS and PS schemes. First, we characterize the probability density function and cumulative distribution function of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio in high signal-to-noise ratio region, then we study the outage and ergodic capacity performance of the backward links. The approximated closed-form expressions for the outage probability and ergodic capacity are derived and validated through Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, we also evaluate the energy efficiency of the target system, and propose an optimal splitting scheme for TS and PS to maximize the throughput of the target system.
ISSN:0090-6778
1558-0857
DOI:10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2676815