Performance of Wireless Powered Communication Systems Over Beaulieu-Xie Channels With Nonlinear Energy Harvesters

Abstract

Performance of wireless powered wireless systems is analyzed. The wireless devices in such systems scavenge energy from sources in downlinks and use the energy to communicate in uplinks. We introduce two new models for these energy harvesters to consider their nonlinear circuitry and their functioning over multiple line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight channels. The newly proposed Beaulieu-Xie fading model is used to characterize this manifold of channels. Performance analyses of average harvested energy and transmission outage probability show good fit between the proposed models and measured data.

Keywords

• Energy harvesting
• communication systems
• communication networks
• radio frequency
• performance analysis
• channel modeling