• DocumentCode
    169364
  • Title

    Capacity of the energy harvesting channel with energy arrival information at the receiver

  • Author

    Ozel, Omur ; Tutuncuoglu, Kaya ; Ulukus, Sennur ; Yener, Aylin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    2-5 Nov. 2014
  • Firstpage
    331
  • Lastpage
    335
  • Abstract
    We determine the capacity of a discrete memoryless communication channel with an energy harvesting transmitter and the energy arrival information available at the receiver as well as the transmitter. We obtain an n-letter capacity expression and prove that the capacity is achieved by an encoding scheme that depends only on the current battery state. Moreover, the capacity is invariant to the non-causal knowledge of energy arrivals. Finally, we show that the capacity expression is equivalently the maximum directed mutual information and that the channel output feedback does not increase the capacity in this case. We obtain upper and lower bounds on the capacity and numerically evaluate them for comparison.
  • Keywords
    channel capacity; channel coding; energy harvesting; feedback; numerical analysis; receivers; transmitters; channel output feedback; discrete memoryless communication channel capacity; encoding scheme; energy arrival information receiver; energy harvesting channel capacity; energy harvesting transmitter; maximum directed mutual information; numerical evaluation; Batteries; Encoding; Energy harvesting; Output feedback; Receivers; Silicon; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Hobart, TAS
  • ISSN
    1662-9019
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITW.2014.6970848
  • Filename
    6970848