Heterogeneous Millimeter Wave Wireless Power Transfer With Poisson Cluster Processes

In this paper, we analyze the energy coverage performance of heterogeneous millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless power transfer (WPT) networks, where macro base stations (MBSs) are distributed according to a Poisson point process (PPP), the location of power beacons (PBs) is modeled as a k-tier Poisson cluster process (PCP), and energy users (EUs) are clustered around the centers of PB clusters. Moreover, the cosine antenna gain model is adopted instead of the prevalent flap-top gain model, which is simpler in derivation but less accurate. Based on the generalized exponential distribution approximation, we propose a new technique of deriving the energy coverage probability of randomly deployed mmWave WPT networks. Specifically, taking the Thomas cluster process (TCP) for instance, we derive the energy coverage probabilities with two PB association strategies, i.e., the random PB association and the nearest PB association. Through Monte-Carlo simulations, our theoretical results are verified and the impact of system parameters, such as the array antenna size, energy threshold or average number of PBs in a cluster, are also investigated.