Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH IN THE EMERGENT FIELD OF ENERGY HARVESTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications offers a review of the most current research as well as the basic concepts, key ideas and powerful tools of energy harvesting wireless communications. Energy harvesting is both renewable and cheap and has the potential for many applications in future wireless communication systems to power transceivers by utilizing environmental energy such as solar, thermal, wind, and kinetic energy.

The authors—noted experts in the field—explore the power allocation for point-to-point energy harvesting channels, power allocation for multi-node energy harvesting channels, and cross-layer design for energy harvesting links. In addition, they offer an in-depth examination of energy harvesting network optimization and cover topics such as energy harvesting ad hoc networks, cost aware design for energy harvesting assisted cellular networks, and energy harvesting in next generation cellular networks. This important resource:

• Brings together in one concise volume the most current research, key concepts, challenges and applications in energy harvesting for wireless transmission and network optimization
• Offers a variety of energy harvesting models and explores the constraints of them in the optimization of EH wireless communication systems
• Contains a comprehensive review from leading researchers whose specializations include circuit design, signal processing, communication and information theory, network protocol, traffic engineering, and optimization
• Provides information into managing randomness in energy supplies, channel fading and traffic load variation

Written for academics, researchers, graduate students, and industry research engineers in electrical, electronic, and computer engineering fields, Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications offers a comprehensive resource to the innovations and technology of energy harvesting wireless communications.