Asymptotic Analysis of Multiuser-MIMO Networks with Battery-Constrained Receivers
In this paper, we present an asymptotic analysis of the behavior of a network where the mobile terminals are considered to be battery-powered devices provided with energy harvesting capabilities. The asymptotic analysis is based on a multiuser MIMO resource allocation strategy where the battery status of the mobile terminals are considered explicitly in the proposed allocation policy. We provide some numerical results and analytic expressions of the expected value of the data rates and the battery levels for different decoding power consumption models when convergence is attained. ; Grant numbers : The research leading to these results has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) under projects TEC2011-29006- C03-01 (GRE3N-PHY), and from the Catalan Government under grant 2009 SGR 891.© 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.