Energy Harvesting for Wireless Communication

This assignment explores the concept of energy harvesting in wireless communication systems. It discusses how these systems utilize renewable resources like solar, chemical, vibration, and thermal energy to power themselves, enabling continuous operation and self-sustainability. The assignment delves into the advantages and challenges of energy harvesting, including its impact on transmission scheduling policies, resource allocation, and network-level issues. It also highlights the importance of energy harvesting models in maximizing energy capture within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for cost-effective, efficient, and reliable communication.

Running head: ENERGY HARVEST
Critical Reflection on Energy Harvest
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Reflection on Energy Harvest
A wireless communication is referred to as a system that holds energy harvesting nodes
which again have the ability to provide self sustainability and continuous operation as well. Due
to the continuous development of technology and the extreme growth of cost currently the
developers are thinking of using the renewable resources instead of the non renewable. Moreover
it can be said that in case of energy harvesting the wireless communication devices do gather
energy directly from the environment. After reviewing the journals it is defined that in order to
transmit information from one source to another destination the energy is used in terms of
recharging the batteries (Ulukus et al., 2015). Again from different sources the energy could be
harvested such as from the solar energy, chemical, vibration, thermal etc.
This is one of the recent advances in technology which implies that from the beginning of
the information theoretic performance restriction of the transmission scheduling policies as well
as the resource allocation, access of the medium and the network level issues also. Though, it
helps to improve the existing appearance of the wireless communication but still different issues
are associated to it . The main issues associated to energy harvest wireless communication is
because the available energy is variable is nature. Basically this is very much difficult to predict
the accurate time and amount of energy that should be absorbed. After considering the EH
background it is determined that, different models are also there which could maximize the
energy harvest in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Shaikh & Zeadally, 2016). It will help to
develop such a system which is cost effective, efficient and reliable as well.

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References
Shaikh, F. K., & Zeadally, S. (2016). Energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks: A
comprehensive review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 55, 1041-1054.
Ulukus, S., Yener, A., Erkip, E., Simeone, O., Zorzi, M., Grover, P., & Huang, K. (2015).
Energy harvesting wireless communications: A review of recent advances. IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas in Communications, 33(3), 360-381.