Information-Energy Region of Mobile SWIPT Networks with Nonlinear EH Model

Abstract

This paper investigates the information-energy (I-E) region for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system in mobility scenarios, where a moving transmitter transmits information and energy to a power splitting (PS)-based receiver. An optimization problem is formulated to explore the system I-E region under the nonlinear energy harvesting (EH) model by jointly optimizing the transmit power at the transmitter and the PS ratio at the receiver. Since the problem is nonconvex, a successive convex approximate-based (SCA-based) algorithm is proposed, which is able to find the sub-optimal solution with low complexity. For comparison, the I-E region of the system under the linear model is also studied, where some closed and semi-closed solutions are derived by using Lagrange dual method and KKT conditions. Numerical results show that compared with the linear EH model, the nonlinear EH model yields a smaller I-E region due to the limitations of EH circuit features. Nevertheless, using the nonlinear EH model avoids the false achievable I-E region for practical mobile SWIPT systems. Besides, it shows that the higher moving speed yields the smaller I-E region. Moreover, with the increment of the required information amount, the harvested energy bias caused by the linear EH model decreases, but the bias ratio increases.