Design and analysis for reliable broadcast transmission in energy harvesting networks

In this paper, we study the reliable broadcast transmission in energy harvesting networks. In addition to employ the erasure-based coding scheme to cope with the packet loss, we deal with the main challenge posed to a reliable transmission in energy harvesting networks: energy deficiency. It refers that the energy harvesting node cannot work when its battery is exhausted. Hence, we take both transmission error and energy deficiency into account and propose a theoretical analysis and a system design for reliable broadcast transmissions. We also investigate the performance trade-off between reliability and throughput. For different requirements, we propose the reliability-first policy and the throughput-first policy to determine the system parameters.