Energy Harvesting Communications With Batteries Having Cycle Constraints

Practical energy harvesting (EH) based communication systems typically use a battery to temporarily store the harvested energy prior to its use for communication. The battery capacity can quickly degrade with time if it is subject to repeated shallow charge-discharge cycles. This motivates the cycle constraint which mandates that a battery must be charged only after it is sufficiently discharged and vice versa. We consider a Bernoulli energy...