Title :
Capacity of the energy harvesting channel with energy arrival information at the receiver
Author :
Ozel, Omur ; Tutuncuoglu, Kaya ; Ulukus, Sennur ; Yener, Aylin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We determine the capacity of a discrete memoryless communication channel with an energy harvesting transmitter and the energy arrival information available at the receiver as well as the transmitter. We obtain an n-letter capacity expression and prove that the capacity is achieved by an encoding scheme that depends only on the current battery state. Moreover, the capacity is invariant to the non-causal knowledge of energy arrivals. Finally, we show that the capacity expression is equivalently the maximum directed mutual information and that the channel output feedback does not increase the capacity in this case. We obtain upper and lower bounds on the capacity and numerically evaluate them for comparison.
Keywords :
channel capacity; channel coding; energy harvesting; feedback; numerical analysis; receivers; transmitters; channel output feedback; discrete memoryless communication channel capacity; encoding scheme; energy arrival information receiver; energy harvesting channel capacity; energy harvesting transmitter; maximum directed mutual information; numerical evaluation; Batteries; Encoding; Energy harvesting; Output feedback; Receivers; Silicon; Transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hobart, TAS
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2014.6970848