Enabling Multiple Power Beacons for Uplink of NOMA-Enabled Mobile Edge Computing in Wirelessly Powered IoT

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 8; p. 1
• Main Authors: Do, Dinh-Thuan, Van Nguyen, Minh-Sang, Nguyen, Tu N., Li, Xingwang, Choi, Kwonhue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01-01-2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Base stations; Beacons; Edge computing; Electronic devices; Energy harvesting; Energy transfer; Internet of Things; Lead; Mobile computing; mobile edge computing; Network latency; NOMA; Nonorthogonal multiple access; outage probability; Performance evaluation; Power beacon; Relaying; Relays; Service life assessment; Uplink
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3015741

As a promising technique, power beacon provides ability of wireless energy transfer to relaying devices in Internet of Things (IoT) to serve far devices with respect to low latency and high spectrum efficiency manner. Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables smart devices to offload parts of their computation-workloads to the cellular base stations associated with edge servers. This paper introduces a promising multiple access technique, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to provide communication service between the base station associated with MEC and far IoT devices. In this paper, we indicate that the multiple power beacons (PBs) benefits to uplink of NOMA-MEC system with the wireless powered IoT. More antennas equipped at smart device and more PBs exhibit reasonable outage performance for the considered system. The simulation results reveal in two folds: (1) our proposed scheme can simultaneously achieve higher spectrum efficiency and ensure prolong lifetime of IoT devices; (2) the mobility of relay leads to select PB appropriately and hence the suitable scheme is realized as comparing two schemes related to ability of energy harvesting and acceptable outage behavior.