Joint information and energy transfer for large-scale networks

In this paper, we adopt a large-scale approach of the radio-frequency energy harvesting technology and we characterize the performance of a network with random number of transmitter-receiver pairs by using stochastic-geometry tools. Specifically, we analyze the outage probability performance and the average harvested energy, when receivers employ power splitting (PS) technique for “simultaneous” information and energy transfer. A non-cooperative scheme, where information/energy are conveyed only via direct links, is considered and the outage performance of the system as well as the average harvested energy are derived in closed form in function of the power splitting.