Massive wireless energy transfer: Enabling sustainable IoT toward 6G era

OLA López, H Alves, RD Souza… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances on wireless energy transfer (WET) make it a promising solution for
powering future Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices enabled by the upcoming sixth-generation …

Optimized energy and information relaying in self-sustainable IRS-empowered WPCN

B Lyu, P Ramezani, DT Hoang, S Gong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to …

Energy-efficient resource allocation for wireless powered communication networks

Q Wu, M Tao, DWK Ng, W Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple
users harvest energy from a dedicated power station and then communicate with an …

IRS-assisted wireless powered NOMA: Do we really need different phase shifts in DL and UL?

Q Wu, X Zhou, R Schober - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of
wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) due to its capability to reconfigure …

Intelligent reflecting surface assisted wireless powered sensor networks for Internet of Things

Z Chu, Z Zhu, F Zhou, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless powered sensor
network (WPSN). Specifically, a power station (PS) provides wireless energy to multiple …

Multi-antenna wireless powered communication with energy beamforming

L Liu, R Zhang, KC Chua - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The newly emerging wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) have recently
drawn significant attention, where radio signals are used to power wireless terminals for …

Spectral and energy-efficient wireless powered IoT networks: NOMA or TDMA?

Q Wu, W Chen, DWK Ng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), where multiple energy-limited
devices first harvest energy in the downlink and then transmit information in the uplink, have …

Harvest-then-cooperate: Wireless-powered cooperative communications

H Chen, Y Li, JL Rebelatto… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a wireless-powered cooperative communication network
consisting of one hybrid access-point (AP), one source, and one relay. In contrast to …

Wireless-powered communications with non-orthogonal multiple access

PD Diamantoulakis, KN Pappi, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study a wireless-powered uplink communication system with non-orthogonal multiple
access (NOMA), consisting of one base station and multiple energy harvesting users. More …

IRS-aided WPCNs: A new optimization framework for dynamic IRS beamforming

Q Wu, X Zhou, W Chen, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a new dynamic IRS beamforming framework to boost the sum
throughput of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless powered communication …