Energy Harvesting for Two-Way OFDM Communications under Hostile Jamming

Hostile jamming can cause significant performance degradation in wireless communications, but it also provides an unexplored source of additional signal power. In this letter, we propose an energy-harvesting receiver for two-way orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems under hostile jamming. More specifically, in the downlink, the receiver is designed to simultaneously process information and harvest energy from the received desired signal as well as the jamming interference through a power splitter. The harvested energy can then be used as an additional source of power to enhance the uplink transmission. We investigate the optimal power allocation and power splitting ratio to maximize the sum-rate of the uplink and downlink transmissions. To reduce the complexity, a suboptimal energy harvesting scheme with closed-form solution is proposed. We also obtain a lower bound on the sum-rate of the proposed scheme under strong full-band jamming.