Abstract-Wireless charging is a promising way to power wireless nodes' transmissions. This paper considers new dualfunction access points (APs) which are able to support the energy/information transmission to/from wireless nodes. We focus on a large-scale wireless powered communication network (WPCN), and use stochastic geometry to analyze the wireless nodes' performance tradeoff between energy harvesting and information transmission. We study two cases with battery-free and battery-deployed wireless nodes. For both cases, we consider a harvest-then-transmit protocol by partitioning each time frame into a downlink (DL) phase for energy transfer, and an uplink (UL) phase for information transfer. By jointly optimizing frame partition between the two phases and the wireless nodes' transmit power, we maximize the wireless nodes' spatial throughput subject to a successful information transmission probability constraint. For the battery-free case, we show that the wireless nodes prefer to choose small transmit power to obtain large transmission opportunity. For the battery-deployed case, we first study an ideal infinite-capacity battery scenario for wireless nodes, and show that the optimal charging design is not unique, due to the sufficient energy stored in the battery. We then extend to the practical finite-capacity battery scenario. Although the exact performance is difficult to be obtained analytically, it is shown to be upper and lower bounded by those in the infinitecapacity battery scenario and the battery-free case, respectively. Finally, we provide numerical results to corroborate our study. Index Terms-Wireless powered communication networks (WPCN), harvest-then-transmit protocol, radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting, stochastic geometry, spatial throughput maximization, battery storage.
As the same way, in REF with using the stochastic geometry, the spatial throughput of wireless nodes is maximized by jointly optimizing frame partition between DL and UL phases.
Spatial Throughput Maximization of Wireless Powered Communication Networks
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