System-Level Analysis of SWIPT MIMO Cellular Networks

Thanh Tu Lam (1) , Marco Di Renzo (1) , Justin P. Coon (2)

1 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
2 Engineering Science

We introduce a tractable approach for studying the feasibility of multiple-antenna cellular networks, where low-energy devices decode information data and harvest power simultaneously. Tools from stochastic geometry are used to quantify the information rate vs. harvested power tradeoff. Our study unveils that large-scale antenna arrays and ultra-dense deployments of base stations are both necessary to harvest, with high reliability, an amount of power of the order of a milliwatt.

Mots clés: Cellular Networks; MIMO; SWIPT

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Thanh Tu Lam, Marco Di Renzo, Justin P. Coon. System-Level Analysis of SWIPT MIMO Cellular Networks. IEEE Communications Letters, 2016, ⟨10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2590424⟩. ⟨hal-01359555⟩