CIF: Small: Collaborative Research: Foundations of Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications

CIF：小型：合作研究：能量收集无线通信的基础

• 批准号: 1422347
• 负责人: Aylin Yener
• 金额: $ 24.69万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1422347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIF; Small; Collaborative; Research; Foundations

This project seeks to establish fundamental performance limits and the ensuing design principles for wireless communication networks composed of devices that operate with energy harvested from the environment. These energy harvesting systems are envisioned to enable energy self-sufficient, energy self-sustaining, perpetually operating wireless networks, and untethered mobility. As such, they will enable new societal, medical, environmental, monitoring/surveillance and safety applications which are otherwise difficult or impossible with conventional battery-powered operation. These applications range from enabling perpetual remote environmental monitoring and surveillance, structural monitoring to on and in-body networking for health monitoring, medical diagnosis and treatment.The project identifies the randomness, intermittency, and causality of energy availability, as well as the uncertainty about the energy states of the transmitters at the receivers, as new ingredients to be incorporated in determining the fundamental performance limits of energy harvesting wireless communication systems, and seeks to determine the information theoretic capacity of an energy harvesting link and the accompanying optimum coding and transmission scheme by incorporating energy harvesting constraints into the information theoretic capacity formulation. The project also seeks to identify the information capacity of multi-user, multi-hop, cooperative energy harvesting networks, as well as incorporating practical issues such as imperfections in storage and retrieval of energy to/from battery, leakage of energy over time, etc., into rigorous information theoretic capacity formulations. Furthermore, the project will make connections to estimation, privacy and security by investigating state amplification, state masking and secure data transmission problems.

该项目旨在建立基本的性能限制和随之而来的无线通信网络的设计原理，该网络由设备组成，这些设备与环境收获的能量一起运行。设想这些能源收集系统可以使能量自给自足，能量自我维持，永久操作的无线网络和不受束缚的移动性。因此，它们将启用新的社会，医疗，环境，监视/监视和安全应用程序，而传统电池供电的操作原本是困难或不可能的。这些应用包括从实现永久远程环境监控和监视，结构监控到以健康监测，医学诊断和治疗的体内和体内网络。该项目确定了能源可用性的随机性，间歇性和因果关系，以及对接收者的不确定性的不确定性，以及依赖新成员的不确定性，以构成新成员的不确定性。系统，并试图通过将能源收集约束结合到信息理论能力公式中，以确定能源收集链接和随附的最佳编码和传输方案的信息理论能力。该项目还旨在确定多用户，多跳，合作能源收集网络的信息能力，并结合了诸如储存和从电池中的能源检索到/从电池泄漏的能量泄漏等能源的缺陷等实用问题中，将其纳入严格的信息理论能力公式中。此外，该项目将通过研究状态放大，状态掩盖和安全数据传输问题来与估计，隐私和安全性建立联系。