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Takefumi Hiraguri

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Spatio-Temporal Scheduling for Robust and Efficient Multi-Transmitter Wireless Power Transfer

In multi-user wireless power transfer (WPT), scheduling schemes that determine the allocation of transmission resources among receivers play a crucial role in improving power transfer efficiency. Scheduling can be classified into time-division (TD) and space-division (SD) schemes, with the transmission order and direction designed to control when and to whom power is delivered. TD-WPT can exploit the nonlinear characteristics of rectennas by concentrating power in time; however, a system relying on highly directional transmission from a single location reduces robustness under time-varying channel conditions. This study investigated the effectiveness of spatio-temporal scheduling in coordinated multi-transmitter WPT systems. By employing multiple transmitters, the proposed method is robust against channel variations in delivering power. Moreover, coordinated beamforming among transmitters exploits inter-cluster interference. Simulation results demonstrate the potential of the proposed scheme for robust and efficient power supply, even under shadowing conditions.

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Adaptive Beam-Frequency Allocation Algorithm with Position Uncertainty for Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems

Envisioned for fifth generation (5G) systems, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are under very active research worldwide. Although pencil beams with accurate beamtracking may boost the throughput of mmWave systems, this poses great challenges in the design of radio resource allocation for highly mobile users. In this paper, we propose a joint adaptive beam-frequency allocation algorithm that takes into account the position uncertainty inherent to high mobility and/or unstable users as, e.g., Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), for whom this is a major problem. Our proposed method provides an optimized beamwidth selection under quality of service (QoS) requirements for maximizing system proportional fairness, under user position uncertainty. The rationale of our scheme is to adapt the beamwidth such that the best trade-off among system performance (narrower beam) and robustness to uncertainty (wider beam) is achieved. Simulation results show that the proposed method largely enhances the system performance compared to reference algorithms, by an appropriate adaptation of the mmWave beamwidths, even under severe uncertainties and imperfect channel state information (CSIs).

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