Abstract
In this paper, we study a waveform design based on time-reversal (TR) for multi-user wireless power transfer (WPT) systems in multipath channels. The existing waveforms for WPT using the non-linear energy harvesting (EH) model have been designed in the frequency domain, whereas we design the waveform directly in the time domain by modifying TR to be suitable for WPT. In the non-linear EH model, the peak signal with the largest magnitude among the received signals is responsible for most of the harvested energy at the energy receiver (ER). Since the peak signal of TR for multi-user consists of the sum of the inter-user interference (IUI) signal and the desired signal, the phase difference between these signals can reduce the magnitude of the peak signal. Thus, we propose a novel waveform based on TR, called a phase aligned TR (PATR). The objective of the proposed PATR is to increase the harvested energy by aligning the phase between the desired signal and IUI signal as in-phase. We derive the optimal phase set to be pre-rotated for maximizing the peak signal, and design the PATR waveform by combining the modified TR and the derived optimal phase set. We prove the superior performance of the proposed PATR compared to the existing schemes in the multi-user WPT systems with the non-linear EH model by simulation. Moreover, we show that the gain for the harvested energy of the proposed PATR increases as the number of transmit antennas and the number of ERs increase.
Highlights
Wireless power transfer (WPT) has attracted a lot of attention as an efficient way to supply power to low power wireless devices such as sensors, or internet of things (IoT) devices
We study the waveform design based on TR for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) systems with the non-linear energy harvesting (EH) model provided by [19]
SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS we provide the simulation results to verify the improved performance of the proposed scheme compared to the existing WPT waveforms in terms of the harvested energy
Summary
Wireless power transfer (WPT) has attracted a lot of attention as an efficient way to supply power to low power wireless devices such as sensors, or internet of things (IoT) devices. The radio frequency (RF)-based WPT can simultaneously transmit the energy to multiple energy receivers (ERs) located more than several meters away from the energy transmitter (ET). These are distinct benefits over the near-field WPT schemes such as the magnetic induction or the magnetic resonance [1]–[6]. For the linear EH model, the harvested energy at each ER increases linearly with a constant RF-to-direct current (DC) conversion efficiency as the received signal power increases. The authors in [7], [8] have studied the optimal waveform for WPT and wireless information transfer (WIT), and proposed the single-tone (ST) waveform as the optimal transmission scheme for WPT. The study in [10] has calculated the outage probability for WPT coverage to analyze the obtainable gain by using multiple transmit antennas in WPT, and showed that
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