Optimal Transmission Policies for Relay Communication Networks With Ambient Energy Harvesting Relays

• Published in: IEEE journal on selected areas in communications Vol. 34; no. 12; pp. 3754 - 3768
• Main Authors: Qian, Li Ping, Feng, Guinian, Leung, Victor C. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Ambient energy harvesting; Arrivals; Batteries; Buffers; Clean energy; Communication networks; Communications networks; Computational geometry; Convexity; Dynamic programming; Energy efficiency; Energy harvesting; Energy storage; Fading channels; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Kuhn-Tucker method; Maximization; Optimization; power allocation; Power management; Relay; relay communication; Relays; Resource management; Scheduling; Sustainable development; Throughput; throughput maximization; time scheduling; Wireless communications
• ISSN: 0733-8716; 1558-0008
• DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2621356

Ambient energy harvesting has emerged as a promising technique to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the total greenhouse gas emissions for green wireless communications. Energy management for throughput maximization under random energy arrivals has been studied extensively in energy harvestin...