Energy Harvesting UE Reporting for Adaptive Task Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Energy harvesting user equipment (UE) in wireless communications often lacks sufficient energy to perform communication tasks, leading to inefficiencies and limitations in communication capabilities, as they have limited energy storage capacity and rely on intermittent energy sources.
Innovation Solution
The method involves an energy harvesting UE requesting energy from a network node and reporting its communication capabilities based on energy levels, allowing the network node to schedule communication tasks accordingly, ensuring the UE has sufficient energy for task performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If energy harvesting UE performs communication tasks continuously, then communication productivity is improved, but energy consumption increases faster than energy harvesting rate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts communication task scheduling based on real-time energy level feedback. The network node receives energy status reports from the UE and adapts the scheduling of communication tasks to match the available energy, transitioning from static to dynamic resource allocation that responds to changing energy conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The UE continuously monitors its energy level and provides feedback reports to the network node. This feedback mechanism enables the network to make informed decisions about task scheduling, ensuring that communication tasks are assigned only when sufficient energy is available, thus preventing energy depletion while maintaining productivity.
2Quantity of substance
If energy harvesting UE requests more energy transmission from network node, then energy availability improves, but network resource consumption and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes predetermined energy request thresholds and reporting mechanisms in advance. When energy levels fall below predefined thresholds, the UE automatically triggers energy request procedures, eliminating the need for complex real-time decision-making and reducing protocol complexity while ensuring timely energy replenishment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces specific parameters such as energy request indications, energy report occasions, and threshold values to quantify and manage energy states. By transforming the abstract concept of energy availability into measurable parameters with defined thresholds and reporting schedules, the system simplifies the management of energy requests and reduces protocol complexity.
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The present disclosure provide techniques for communicating energy request reports and energy reports. A method includes sending an energy request indication in an energy request occasion, the energy request indication indicating a request for a user equipment (UE) to send an energy request report to the network node. The method further includes sending the energy request report, the energy request report indicating a request for a network node to transmit power to the UE or a request for time for the UE to harvest energy. The method further includes sending an energy report indication in an energy report occasion, the energy report indication indicating a request for the UE to send an energy report to the network node. The method further includes sending the energy report, the energy report indicating to the network node at least one communication capability of the UE based on an energy level of the UE.