Energy cooperation in communication of energy harvesting tags

Energy harvesting wireless devices are recently emerging as a viable infrastructure for internet of things (IoT) applications. In this paper, an energy cooperative transmission strategy is proposed for a network energy harvesting tags, that is adapted to the available energy resource and identification request. We develop an optimal transmission policy to maximize the long-term average throughput performance via a Markov decision process (MDP) formulation. Numerical results are provided to show the performance of the energy cooperative transmission policy under various scenarios.