Power allocation in energy harvesting relay systems

Ahmed I, Ikhlef A, Schober R, Mallik RK (2012)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2012

Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Event location: Yokohama JP

ISBN: 9781467309905

DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2012.6239952

Abstract

Using energy harvesting nodes can be a viable solution for energy limited cooperative communication systems. In this paper, we consider the optimization of an energy harvesting (EH) relay system, where an EH source communicates with the destination via an EH decode-and-forward (DF) relay. Our objective is to maximize the system throughput over a finite number of transmission intervals. To this end, we propose an offline and several online joint source and relay transmit power allocation schemes. For offline power allocation, we formulate a convex optimization problem which can be solved either in closed form or using standard optimization tools. For the online case, we propose a dynamic programming (DP) approach to compute the optimal online transmit power. To alleviate the complexity inherent to DP, we propose several suboptimal online power allocation schemes. Our simulation results show that the developed suboptimal schemes provide a good complexity-performance tradeoff compared to optimal online power allocation. © 2012 IEEE.

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APA:

Ahmed, I., Ikhlef, A., Schober, R., & Mallik, R.K. (2012). Power allocation in energy harvesting relay systems. In IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. Yokohama, JP.

MLA:

Ahmed, Imtiaz, et al. "Power allocation in energy harvesting relay systems." Proceedings of the IEEE 75th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2012, Yokohama 2012.

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