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Effect of downlink energy transfer scheduling on SDMA and TDMA uplink transmission

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The high cost and power consumption of digital beamforming, as a result of the high number of RF chains, has overshadowed its performance on multi-antenna wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs). This setback forced researchers to low-cost alternatives such as hybrid beamforming, which decreases the number of expensive RF chains by utilizing cheaper phase shifters. This cost-cutting, however, comes with reduced control over beamforming weights and compromise performance. To circumvent this deficiency, scheduling of energy harvesting (SEH), utilizing the degree of freedom in the time domain, has been proposed. In SEH, the downlink slot is subdivided into multiple variable-length subslots with different beamforming weights. In this paper, we examine the effect of SEH on the optimization of minimum length scheduling for space division multiple access (SDMA) uplink transmission compared to time division multiple access (TDMA) uplink transmission. Via simulations, we demonstrate that SDMA benefits more from the additional degree of freedom provided by the usage of SEH for any number of nodes. However, SDMA yields inferior delay performance compared to TDMA as the number of nodes increases, which restricts the application of SDMA with SEH, making it impractical.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Decode and forward, Splitting factor, Energy harvesting

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2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom)

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10.1109/BlackSeaCom52164.2021.9527853

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