A hybrid MAC protocol for optimal channel allocation in large-scale wireless powered communication networks

Abstract This paper proposes a large-scale wireless powered communication network (WPCN), which consists of a hybrid access point (H-AP) and numerous nodes. The H-AP broadcasts energy to all nodes, and the nodes harvest the energy and then use the harvested energy to transmit information. For the la...

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Main Authors: Sungryung Cho, Kyungrak Lee, BooJoong Kang, Inwhee Joe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13638-017-1012-2