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Energy Harvesting Oriented Transceiver Design for 5G Networks

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Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 50))

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One of the biggest challenges for future wireless and cellular network deployment is to achieve the expected overall spectral efficiency enhancement, all the while minimizing both the additional capital expenditure for wireless operators and the carbon footprint of the information and communication technology infrastructure. In this context, it appears more and more clear that energy efficiency will be one of the key metrics to assess the performance of the future network. Thus, it is of utmost importance that both wired and wireless devices are designed for optimal energy efficiency, while satisfying the target performance for future networks in terms of quality of service. In this chapter, we start by providing an overview of this problem and discuss its implications for both the network and the end user. Along similar lines, we discuss the potential of a very promising approach to increase the energy efficiency of the network that has recently gained momentum, i.e., energy harvesting. In particular, we focus our attention on two of the most intriguing new technologies to provide energy to mobile devices, such as the so–called wireless power transfer and simultaneous information and power transfer. We introduce two wireless–empowered transceiver designs that can harvest energy from the received signals to increase their energy efficiency. More specifically, we first describe an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transceiver capable of harvesting in–band interference, discussing its potential as a means of realizing self–sustainable transmissions and studying its performance. Subsequently, we propose a self–interference harvesting full–duplex radio architecture and shows that it can deliver both spectral and energy efficiency gains over its state–of–the–art counterparts. Our results confirm both the lack of optimization of the current technology in terms of energy efficiency and the potential of the proposed approaches to increase it. Naturally, our findings are far from being conclusive, and lot is yet to be done. However, they offer a set of interesting arguments to substantiate the idea of energy harvesting oriented transceiver design as a means to realize more energy efficient future wireless and cellular networks.

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    The words power and energy are used interchangeably in this chapter, despite their conceptual difference, for the sake of simplicity.

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Maso, M. (2016). Energy Harvesting Oriented Transceiver Design for 5G Networks. In: Shakir, M.Z., Imran, M.A., A. Qaraqe, K., Alouini, MS., V. Vasilakos, A. (eds) Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 50. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27568-0_4

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