• DocumentCode
    1728221
  • Title

    Capacity of a Gaussian MAC with energy harvesting transmit nodes

  • Author

    Rajesh, R. ; Deekshith, P.K. ; Sharma, Vinod

  • Author_Institution
    CABS, DRDO, Bangalore, India
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    338
  • Lastpage
    343
  • Abstract
    We consider a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC) where the users are sensor nodes powered by energy harvesters. The energy harvesters may have finite or infinite buffer to store the harvested energy. First, we find the capacity region of a GMAC powered by transmit nodes with an infinite energy buffer. Next, we consider a GMAC with the transmitting nodes equipped with a finite energy buffer. Initially we assume perfect knowledge of the buffer state information at both the encoders and the decoder. We provide an achievable region for this case. We also generalize the achievable region when only partial information about buffer state is available at both the encoders and the decoder.
  • Keywords
    Gaussian channels; buffer storage; channel capacity; channel coding; energy harvesting; Gaussian MAC capacity; buffer state information; decoder; encoder; energy harvesting transmit nodes; finite energy buffer; infinite energy buffer; multiple access channel; sensor nodes; Buffer storage; Decoding; Electronic mail; Encoding; Energy harvesting; Markov processes; Receivers; Energy harvesting; Finite Buffer; Gaussian multiple access channel; Shannon capacity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), 2012
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1473-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITA.2012.6181780
  • Filename
    6181780