Network-Level Cooperation in Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

Nikolaos Pappas (1) , Marios Kountouris (1) , Jeongho Jeonz (2) , Anthony Ephremidesz (2) , Apostolos Traganitisy (3)

1 E3S - Supélec Sciences des Systèmes
2 ECE - University of Maryland - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Univ. of Maryland]
3 CSD-UOC - Computer Science Department [Crete]

We consider a two-hop communication network consisted of a source node, a relay and a destination node in which the source and the relay node have external traffic arrivals. The relay forwards a fraction of the source node's traffic to the destination and the cooperation is performed at the network level. In addition, both source and relay nodes have energy harvesting capabilities and an unlimited battery to store the harvested energy. We study the impact of the energy constraints on the stability region. Specifically, we provide inner and outer bounds on the stability region of the two-hop network with energy harvesting source and relay.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris, Jeongho Jeonz, Anthony Ephremidesz, Apostolos Traganitisy. Network-Level Cooperation in Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks. GlobalSIP 2013, Dec 2013, Austin, United States. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1109/GlobalSIP.2013.6736895⟩. ⟨hal-00928255⟩