Optimal Energy and Data Routing in Networks With Energy Cooperation

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—We consider the delay minimization problem in an energy harvesting communication network with energy cooperation. In this network, nodes harvest energy from nature to sustain the power needed for data transmission, and may transfer a portion of their harvested energies to neighboring nodes through energy cooperation. For ﬁxed data and energy routing topologies, we determine the optimum data rates, transmit powers, and energy transfers, subject to ﬂow and energy conservation constraints, to minimize the network delay. We start with a simpliﬁed problem where data ﬂows are ﬁxed and optimize energy management at each node for the case of a single energy harvest per node. This is tantamount to distributing each node’s available energy over its outgoing data links and energy transfers to neighboring nodes. For this case, with no energy cooperation, we show that each node should allocate more power to links with more noise and/or more data ﬂow. In addition, when there is ener...

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