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Approximate capacity of energy harvesting communication with finite battery


Abstract:

We consider an energy-harvesting communication system where a transmitter powered by an exogenous energy arrival process and equipped with a finite battery communicates o...Show More

Abstract:

We consider an energy-harvesting communication system where a transmitter powered by an exogenous energy arrival process and equipped with a finite battery communicates over a discrete-time AWGN channel. Assuming that the energy arrival process is i.i.d. Bernoulli, we provide a simple approximation to the capacity of this channel and bound the approximation gap by a constant independent of all system parameters. Our result reveals two qualitatively different regimes for the channel: in the large battery regime, the capacity depends critically on the average energy arrival rate and not so much on the exact value of the battery size; while in the small-battery regime, the capacity depends on the peakiness of the energy arrival process and is logarithmically increasing in the battery size.
Date of Conference: 29 June 2014 - 04 July 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 August 2014
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4799-5186-4

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Conference Location: Honolulu, HI, USA

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