Message-Passing-Based Joint User Association and Time Allocation for Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Hongju Lee; Jihwan Moon; Changick Song; Sang Hyun Lee; Inkyu Lee

doi:10.1109/TWC.2021.3093317

Message-Passing-Based Joint User Association and Time Allocation for Wireless Powered Communication Networks

Hongju Lee, Jihwan Moon, Changick Song, Sang Hyun Lee, Inkyu Lee

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Abstract

This work develops a joint design of user association and time allocation for wireless powered communication networks. A harvest-then-transmit protocol is applied with base stations (BSs) transfer wireless energy to users in the first downlink phase. Then, the users utilize the harvested energy for their information transmission to the BS in the subsequent uplink phase. In this configuration, we employ a general $\alpha $ -fair utility to maximize the network throughput. In particular, the maximization of sum-rate, proportional fairness and minimum rate are investigated individually. We introduce a new message-passing based framework to provide an efficient distributed solution for the user association and optimize the time allocation between the downlink and uplink phase. To achieve this joint goal, each user selects a BS in a distributed manner to maximize the $\alpha $ -fair utility. After identifying the user association, the time allocation is determined by an efficient line search technique. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing approaches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	34-47
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2021.3093317
Publication status	Published - 2022 Jan 1

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant through the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea Government, under Grant 2017R1A2B3012316 and Grant 2019R1A2C1084855, in part by the Basic Science Research Program through the Ministry of Education under Grant 2021R1I1A3050126, in part by the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) supervised by the Institute of Information Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) under Grant IITP-2020-0-01749, and in part by the Korea University Grant.

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Keywords

Wireless powered communication networks
message-passing algorithm
time allocation
user association

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Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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