Open AccessPower allocation for secure OFDMA systems with wireless information and power transfer
Author(s) -
Huang Xiaobin,
Li Quanzhong,
Zhang Qi,
Qin Jiayin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2013.3447
Subject(s) - maximum power transfer theorem , wireless , computer science , power (physics) , transmitter power output , wireless power transfer , telecommunications link , electronic engineering , decoding methods , constraint (computer aided design) , transmission (telecommunications) , energy (signal processing) , transmitter , computer network , telecommunications , engineering , mathematics , channel (broadcasting) , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , statistics
For simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), secure transmission is an important issue. The power allocation problem is investigated to maximise the achievable secrecy rate in a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access system with a power splitting SWIPT scheme. Unlike the traditional wireless communication systems, it is assumed that the legitimate receivers have no energy storage capability. The legitimate receivers harvest the energy from the received signals by using a power splitting scheme to meet the circuit‐power constraint for information decoding. The problem is formulated as a power allocation optimisation problem under the transmit power constraint and the energy harvesting constraint which is solvable. It is shown from simulations that the proposed optimal power allocation scheme outperforms the conventional uniform power allocation scheme.