Fairness-Aware Resource Allocation in Multi-Hop Wireless Powered Communication Networks with User Cooperation

In wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), the harvested energy varies greatly among user nodes (UNs), resulting in throughput unfairness. Since the harvested energy is limited, each UN must strategically allocate the energy used for forwarding the other nodes’ information and for...

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Main Authors: Ming Lei, Xingjun Zhang, Han Ding, Bocheng Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/6/1890