On the Energy and Data Storage Management in Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications

M Cenk Gursoy; Sami Ak{\i}n

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On the Energy and Data Storage Management in Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications

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Pith's one-line read This paper derives the maximum constant data arrival rate for an energy-harvesting wireless transmitter as $-\frac{1}{N\theta}\ln(\chi^\ast)$, with $\chi^\ast$ the unique positive root of a polynomial built from the battery-state Markov…

desk verdict The overflow analysis is fine, but the main effective capacity result rests on a battery-state Markov assumption that doesn't hold; worth refereeing, not worth accepting as is. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.01726 v1 pith:MAV72NDI submitted 2019-08-05 cs.IT math.IT

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The reading

An energy-harvesting transmitter must balance two failure modes: a battery that overflows and wastes harvested energy, and a battery that runs dry and interrupts data transmission. This paper establishes a single analytical bridge between the battery's storage dynamics and the data service process, by representing the battery through a Markov chain whose state counts the frames since the last energy outage and by approximating the energy overflow probability as $\Pr\{e \ge e_{\mathrm{th}}\} \approx \exp(-\mu e_{\mathrm{th}})$ with $\mu$ the energy decay rate. Its main claim is a closed-form effective capacity, the largest constant data arrival rate that the data buffer can support under a QoS constraint on buffer overflow, given by $-\frac{1}{N\theta}\ln(\chi^\ast)$, with $\chi^\ast$ the unique positive root of a polynomial built from the battery-state transition probabilities and per-state service statistics. If correct, this gives system designers an analytic way to translate battery size, energy arrival statistics, and outage constraints into a maximum sustainable data rate, instead of relying on simulation of a coupled energy-data queue.

What carries the argument

The central object is the battery-state Markov chain $\mathcal{W}=\{0,1,\dots\}$, in which state $m$ means $m$ consecutive frames have passed since the last energy outage and the transition probability $q_m$ is the probability that the battery satisfies the energy demand for the $m$-th straight frame. The load-bearing identity is the Markov-modulated spectral-radius formula, $\Lambda(\theta)/\theta = \frac{1}{\theta}\ln \operatorname{sp}\{M\Phi(\theta)\}$, applied to the data service process, with $M$ the battery-chain transition matrix and $\Phi(\theta)$ the diagonal matrix of per-state service moment generating functions $\varphi_0,\varphi_1,\dots$. Because $M\Phi(-\theta)$ is a Leslie matrix, its characteristic polynomial $z(\chi)$ has a unique positive root $\chi^\ast$, and the effective capacity is $-\ln(\chi^\ast)/(N\theta)$. This machinery collapses a two-queue energy-and-data system into a one-dimensional spectral computation.

What would settle it

Simulate the exact two-queue recursion with a finite battery, i.i.d. Weibull energy arrivals with shape $k=5$ and scale chosen so the average energy arrival is below the constant demand, Rayleigh fading, and a fixed transmission-rate policy; estimate the data-buffer overflow probability versus buffer threshold, fit its exponential decay rate, and compare the implied QoS exponent with the $\theta$ obtained from the unique positive root of $z(\chi)$ in (27). If the two disagree whenever outage histories leave different pre-outage energy levels, most visibly for small batteries, the Markov-modulated spectral-radius formula fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper claims that, for a point-to-point energy-harvesting link with a battery and a data buffer, the effective capacity under a data QoS exponent $\theta$ and an energy decay rate $\mu$ is $C_E(\theta,\mu) = -\frac{1}{N\theta}\ln(\chi^\ast)$, where $\chi^\ast$ is the unique real positive root of the polynomial $z(\chi)$ in (27). That polynomial is assembled from the transition probabilities $q_n$ of a Markov chain whose state counts the number of frames since the last energy outage, and from per-state moment generating functions $\varphi_0$ and $\varphi_j$ of the service process, which describe data served during outages and during stretches of successful energy supply. The derivation models the service process as Markov-modulated and uses the spectral-radius formula for its asymptotic log-moment generating function; the Leslie-matrix form of the resulting matrix guarantees a unique positive root. The paper presents this root as determining the maximum constant data arrival rate that the data buffer can support while keeping its overflow probability near $\exp(-\theta d_{\mathrm{th}})$.

Load-bearing premise

The whole calculation depends on assuming that the data service distribution is fixed by the battery's current state alone, even though after an outage the energy available to serve data can vary with how the battery reached that state.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

A designer can compute the maximum sustainable data arrival rate directly from the energy arrival statistics, the constant energy demand rate, and the QoS exponent, without running a full battery-and-buffer simulation.
The energy decay rate $\mu$ becomes a tunable design parameter: smaller $\mu$ lowers energy outage probability while raising overflow probability, and the effective capacity formula locates the best operating point.
In an AWGN channel the effective capacity is largest when $\mu$ is as small as possible, whereas in Rayleigh fading there is an interior optimum, because transmission outages and energy outages push in opposite directions.
Truncating the Leslie matrix to $\alpha$ states gives an upper bound on effective capacity that tightens as $\alpha$ grows, yielding a finite computable approximation to the infinite-state formula.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the formula is right, the same Markov-modulated spectral-radius machinery should extend to adaptive transmission policies that react to instantaneous channel state, provided the per-state moment generating functions average over both energy and fading; the paper only treats a fixed transmission rate.
The exponential overflow approximation suggests an explicit Pareto frontier between the probability of wasting energy and the probability of running dry, parameterized by $\mu$; the paper demonstrates the tradeoff numerically but does not write it as a closed-form curve.
A natural stress test is to replace the constant energy demand with a battery-state-dependent threshold policy and check whether the effective capacity still equals the spectral radius of a Leslie-like matrix; if the service distribution during outages depends on pre-outage energy, the polynomial in (27) may need conditioning on that history.

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The paper has a solid core in the energy overflow part: the exponential approximation via large deviations is standard and cleanly presented, and the examples in Propositions 1 and 2 are instructive. The related work is thorough, the writing is clear, and there is no circular fitting or invented data. The average service rate expression (21) follows from the model as a conditional-expectation exercise, though it inherits the problems below.

The central advertised result, Theorem 1, is not supported. The battery state w(i) — consecutive successful energy supplies since last outage — is not Markov. Knowing w(i)=m does not fix the residual stored energy e(i), only that the last m demands were met. The transition to state m+1 depends on e(i), which varies across visits to state m. The paper's q_m in (10) computes the ratio of survival probabilities starting from an empty battery, not the transition probability from an arbitrary state m-1. So the transition matrix M and the steady-state probabilities π do not describe the actual process. This invalidates the outage probability formula and the whole Markov-modulated setup for the effective capacity.

Even if the state process were Markov, the service MGF φ0(θ) in (28) depends on the previous state m, not just the current state 0 — the paper's own formula averages over m. That violates the state-homogeneity condition of Chang's Example 7.2.7, which Theorem 1 invokes. The spectral-radius formula for effective capacity therefore does not apply.

The upper bound on outage probability also relies on q1 ≤ q2 ≤ q3 ≤ …, which is false in general. Simple example: i.i.d. energy arrivals with u=2 w.p. 1/2 and u=0 otherwise, with constant demand p=1, gives q2 = 1.5 > q1 = 0.5 but q3 = 2/3 < q2. So the inequality used in (12) is unsupported.

The numerical section plots only analytical effective capacity curves; there is no system simulation validating (26)–(29). Given that the derivation is flawed, that absence is a significant omission.

Who is this for? People working on energy harvesting links with QoS constraints might find the overflow approximation and the general modeling approach useful as a starting point, but they should not rely on the effective capacity formula as derived. I would send this to a serious referee — the flaws are subtle and worth catching — but I would expect a rejection or major revision. The authors could potentially repair the model by enlarging the state to include a quantized energy level, but that is a substantially different paper.

Bottom line: cite the overflow part if you need that standard result, but not the effective capacity; and treat the outage probability as heuristic pending a real Markov state description.

Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper studies an energy-harvesting (EH) transmitter with a battery and a data buffer. It develops three main results: an exponential approximation for the energy overflow probability characterized by an energy decay rate µ; a Markov-chain model for energy outages based on the number of consecutive successful energy-supply frames, together with an outage-probability expression; and throughput analysis consisting of an average data service rate and an effective-capacity formula. The advertised central contribution is Theorem 1, which expresses the effective capacity as CE(θ,µ) = −1/(Nθ) ln(χ*), where χ* is the unique positive root of the characteristic function z(χ) in Eq. (27), obtained by applying the Markov-modulated spectral-radius formula from [36, Example 7.2.7] to a Leslie-type matrix.

Significance. If Theorem 1 were valid, the paper would provide a useful design tool connecting battery management (energy overflow and outage constraints) with QoS-constrained throughput in EH systems. The overflow approximation and the outage Markov-chain construction are simple and potentially useful, and the average service rate expression in Eq. (21) is derived transparently from the model. Numerical results for the overflow and outage probabilities and for the average service rate are also provided. However, the central effective-capacity result is not supported, because the service process does not satisfy the state-homogeneous Markov-modulation condition required by the cited spectral-radius formula. The paper's main advertised contribution is therefore not established, and its significance is correspondingly reduced.

major comments (2)

[Appendix C / Theorem 1 (Eqs. (26)–(30))] The application of [36, Example 7.2.7] is not justified. In the model, when the battery enters state 0 at time i, the service is s(i) = g(ξ(i)) (when the channel supports transmission), where ξ(i) = e(i−1) + u(i) includes the residual energy accumulated during the preceding run of successful frames. The distribution of ξ(i) therefore depends on the length m of that run, i.e., on the previous state W(i−1) = m, not only on the current state W(i) = 0. The paper's φ0(θ) in Eq. (28) is an average over m, and replacing every transition into state 0 by this common average in the matrix M Φ(−θ) does not produce the correct Markov additive kernel A_{m0}(θ) = (1 − q_{m+1}) E[e^{θs(i)} | W(i−1)=m, W(i)=0]. The spectral radius of M Φ(−θ) need not equal the asymptotic log-moment generating function of the cumulative service process S(t). Consequently, the effective-capacity expression in Eq. (26) is unsupported; the proof must either derive the transition-dependent spectral radius or prove that the averaged φ0 yields the same spectral radius, which is not done.
[Section V-C / Figs. 5 and 6] The effective-capacity curves in Figs. 5 and 6 are computed from the very formula in Theorem 1 that is in question, and no independent simulation of the actual EH system is provided to validate Eqs. (26)–(29). Given the concern in the previous major comment, these figures cannot serve as confirmation of the result. The authors should simulate the EH transmitter with a finite data buffer, measure the empirical buffer overflow decay rate or the maximum sustainable constant arrival rate, and compare those data with the theoretical CE(θ,µ).

minor comments (4)

[Definition 1 and footnote 3] The paper discusses two different stability regimes: E[u] < E[p] is used for the overflow analysis, while E[u] > E[p] is mentioned for avoiding battery depletion. The text should state explicitly which stability condition is assumed for which result, since the outage Markov chain's positive recurrence and the expressions for π0 depend on this choice.
[Eq. (12)] The upper bound on the outage probability relies on the monotonicity q1 ≤ q2 ≤ q3 ≤ ···, which is asserted via an inductive method but not proved. A short proof or a reference establishing this monotonicity for i.i.d. energy arrivals and demands would make the bound self-contained.
[Eq. (38)] There is a typographical error in the display of φj(θ): an extraneous closing brace appears in E[exp(θr(i)1[r(i)≤I(i)]}|w(i)=j]. This should be corrected to E[exp(θr(i)1[r(i)≤I(i)])|w(i)=j].
[Figure 5 caption] The caption refers to 'different data transmission delay constraints, i.e., θp', but the notation θp is not defined anywhere; the figure actually varies the QoS exponent θ. Please correct the caption and define the parameter consistently.

Circularity Check

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No load-bearing circularity; the only self-citations are contextual and the effective-capacity theorem is a standard spectral-radius computation.

full rationale

Theorem 1 is not circular: it computes the effective capacity from the log-moment generating function of the service process via the Markov-modulated spectral-radius formula of [36, Example 7.2.7], with the state MGFs phi_0 and phi_j defined from the energy arrival/demand, battery state, and channel fading distributions (Eqs. (28)-(29)). No parameter is fitted to the quantity being predicted; theta and mu are design parameters, and the overflow/outage probabilities used in the state model are derived from the same energy processes rather than from the effective-capacity values. The exponential overflow approximation is validated against battery simulations, not used to fabricate a prediction. The self-citations [34], [35] appear only as context ('Apart from this paper, we invoke large deviation theory and queueing theory in [34], [35]...') and in a footnote; they do not supply a premise of Theorem 1, so they are not load-bearing. The skeptic's objection that the battery state W(i) is not truly Markov and that phi_0 depends on the previous state is a correctness risk about the applicability of [36, Example 7.2.7], not a circularity: the paper applies an external theorem rather than defining its conclusion into its assumptions. Hence the derivation is self-contained; the score reflects only minor, non-load-bearing self-citation.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new fitted constants or physical entities. The analytical results rely on standard large-deviation and queueing assumptions for the energy processes, plus a homogeneity assumption in the effective capacity derivation that is not satisfied by the model.

assumptions (7)

domain assumption Energy arrival and demand processes are stationary, ergodic, have finite means and variances, and possess finite moment generating functions with differentiable limits.
Used in Section III-A to define the energy decay rate μ and the Gärtner-Ellis equation (5).
domain assumption Stability condition E[u] < E[p] ensures the infinite-size battery reaches a steady state with a decaying tail.
Definition 1, Section III-A; needed for the exponential overflow approximation.
domain assumption Energy arrival and demand processes are independent.
Used to assert a unique μ* satisfying Λu(μ*)+Λp(-μ*)=0 in (5).
domain assumption Consecutive energy arrivals and demands are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.).
Invoked in Section III-B to assert q1≤q2≤... and to derive the upper bound (12); also used in numerical Weibull simulations.
domain assumption The battery is of infinite size for the overflow and outage analysis, approximating large finite batteries.
Sections III-A and III-B assume emax=∞; finite-size effects are only checked numerically in Section V-A.
domain assumption The transmitter is work-conserving and always has data to send.
Footnote 5; required so the energy demand process is always active and the service analysis applies.
ad hoc to paper The service process is a Markov-modulated process whose per-state MGFs are independent of the previous state, so Chang's spectral radius formula applies.
Appendix C invokes [36, Example 7.2.7]; this condition is not satisfied because the outage service distribution depends on the previous battery state, so φ0 in (28) is an average rather than a state-homogeneous MGF.

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Energy harvesting (EH) in wireless communications has become the focus of recent transmission technology studies. Herein, energy storage modeling is one of the crucial design benchmarks that must be treated carefully. Understanding the energy storage dynamics and the throughput levels is essential especially for communication systems in which the performance depends solely on harvested energy. While energy outages should be avoided, energy overflows should also be prevented in order to utilize all harvested energy. Hence, a simple, yet comprehensive, analytical model that can represent the characteristics of a general class of EH wireless communication systems needs to be established. In this paper, invoking tools from large deviation theory along with Markov processes, a firm connection between the energy state of the battery and the data transmission process over a wireless channel is established for an EH transmitter. In particular, a simple exponential approximation for the energy overflow probability is formulated, with which the energy decay rate in the battery as a measure of energy usage is characterized. Then, projecting the energy outages and supplies on a Markov process, a discrete state model is established and an expression for the energy outage probability for given energy arrival and demand processes is provided. Finally, under energy overflow and outage constraints, the average data service (transmission) rate over the wireless channel is obtained and the effective capacity of the system, which characterizes the maximum data arrival rate at the transmitter buffer under quality-of-service (QoS) constraints imposed on the data buffer overflow probability, is derived.

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**Figure 2.** State transition model for the battery. can employ an inductive method and realize that q1 ≤ q2 ≤ q3 ≤ · · · ≤ qm ≤ · · · , and find an upper bound on the outage probability as follows: π0 = 1 1 + Pα−1 m=1 Qm i=1 qi + P∞ m=α Qm i=1 qi = 1 1 + Pα−1 m=1 Qm i=1 qi + Qα i=1 qi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Energy overflow and energy outage probabilities. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Average data service rate, savg, vs. energy decay rate, µ, with different average energy arrivals, i.e., λdB = 5, 4 and 3 dB. results that with the increasing scale parameter in the energy arrival process, the energy outage probability increases, which is due to the in…

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Effective capacity vs. energy decay rate, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Effective capacity vs. energy decay rate, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_6.png]

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