Collaborative Energy Beamforming for Wireless Powered Fog Computing Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 21; no. 10; pp. 7942 - 7956
• Main Authors: Chiu, Te-Chuan, Wang, Chih-Yu, Pang, Ai-Chun, Chung, Wei-Ho
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Antenna radiation patterns; Approximation; Array signal processing; B5G/6G cellular networks; beam-ripple phenomenon; Beamforming; Collaboration; Computation offloading; Data communication; Devices; Dynamic programming; Edge computing; energy beamforming; Energy management; fog/edge computing; Internet of Things; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Mathematical analysis; Network latency; Optimization; Polynomials; Switches; Upper bounds; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; wireless power transfer; Wireless power transmission; wireless powered Fog computing networks

Beam-based wireless power transfer and Fog/edge computing are promising dual technologies for realizing wireless powered Fog computing networks to support the upcoming B5G/6G IoT applications, which require latency-aware and intensive computing, with a limited energy supply. In such systems, IoT dev...