Optimal power allocation for an energy harvesting estimation system

Yu Zhao, Biao Chen, Rui Zhang

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Abstract

Optimal transmit power allocation strategies are proposed for an energy harvesting estimation system, where energy can be harvested from the environment and buffered in a battery for future use. With the aim of minimizing the mean squared error at the receiver, two types of side information (SI) available to the transmitter are considered: causal SI (energy harvested in the past) and non-causal SI (energy harvested in the past, present and future). For the case where non-causal SI is available and battery storage is unlimited, it is shown that the optimal power allocation can be attained by a simple water-filling-like procedure, where the water level follows a non-decreasing staircase function. Dynamic programming is used to optimize the allocation policy when causal SI is available. The issue of unknown transmit power at the receiver is also addressed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Proceedings
Pages4549-4553
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 18 2013
Event2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: May 26 2013May 31 2013

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2013 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2013
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period5/26/135/31/13

Keywords

  • Energy harvesting
  • convex optimization
  • dynamic programming
  • estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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