Successive Interference Cancellation in Bipolar Ad Hoc Networks with SWIPT

TL;DR

This paper investigates how successive interference cancellation (SIC) can enhance simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in bipolar ad hoc networks, demonstrating significant energy gains through theoretical and numerical analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of SIC within SWIPT for bipolar ad hoc networks, highlighting its potential to improve energy harvesting performance.

Findings

SIC significantly boosts energy harvesting in SWIPT systems.

The average harvested energy approaches an upper bound under certain conditions.

Theoretical and numerical results validate the effectiveness of SIC in this context.

Abstract

Successive interference cancellation (SIC) is based on the idea that some interfering signals may be strong enough to decode in order to be removed from the aggregate received signal and thus boost performance. In this letter, we study the SIC technique from a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) standpoint. We consider a bipolar ad hoc network and evaluate the impact of SIC on the SWIPT performance for the power splitting technique. Theoretical and numerical results show that our proposed approach can achieve significant energy gains and under certain scenarios the average harvested energy converges to its upper bound.