Finite Blocklength Analysis of Energy Harvesting Channels

Abstract

We consider Additive White Gaussian Noise channels and Discrete Memoryless channels when the transmitter harvests energy from the environment. These can model wireless sensor networks as well as Internet of Things. By providing a unifying framework that works for any energy harvesting channel, we study these channels assuming an infinite energy buffer and provide the corresponding achievability and converse bounds on the channel capacity in the finite blocklength regime. We additionally provide moderate deviation asymptotic bounds as well.