Create Your Own Data and Energy Integrated Communication Network: A Brief Tutorial and a Prototype S

• 作 者: Yali Zheng Yitian Zhang Yang Wang Jie Hu Kun Yang
• 机 构: School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology
• 出 处: 中国通信（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2020年9期
• 关键词: data and energy integrated communication network (DEIN) wireless power transfer

In order to satisfy the ever-in-creasing energy appetite of the massive bat-tery-powered and batteryless communication devices, radio frequency (RF) signals have been relied upon for transferring wireless power to them. The joint coordination of wireless power transfer (WPT) and wireless information transfer (WIT) yields simultane-ous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) as well as data and energy integrated communication network (DEIN). However, as a promising technique, few efforts are invest-ed in the hardware implementation of DEIN. In order to make DEIN a reality, this paper fo-cuses on hardware implementation of a DEIN. It firstly provides a brief tutorial on SWIPT, while summarising the latest hardware design of WPT transceiver and the existing commer-cial solutions. Then, a prototype design in DEIN with full protocol stack is elaborated, followed by its performance evaluation.