Wireless Power Transfer for Next Generation Mobile Networks: Heuristic Policies and their Performance Analysis

Wireless Power Transfer permits to charge mobile devices without the need to connect them to an external power source. We consider the case in which users travel along the network, where a certain number of base stations has been deployed. The users' mobile devices, upon reaching a certain battery energy threshold, issue a charging request to the base stations. In order to allow these to decide whether to charge a device, we design some heuristic policies and analyse their performance