Communications and Signals Design for Wireless Power Transmission

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2264-2290

  Zeng, Yong ^a   Clerckx, Bruno ^b   Zhang, Rui ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

channel estimation and feedback; energy beamforming; non linear energy harvesting model; power region; waveform design; Wireless power transfer

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; NON LINEAR; POWER REGION; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; WAVEFORM DESIGNS; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER (WPT); WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 85028078240     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2676103     Document Type: Article

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