Impact of Total Harmonic Distortion in SWIPT Enabled Wireless Communication Networks

In this article, the impact of high power amplifier non-linearity namely harmonic distortion in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) power splitting system (PS) is analyzed. Here the SWIPT transmitter with a high power amplifier follows IQ modulation and the receiver is equipped with a power splitting architecture. The harvested energy and signal to noise ratio (SNR) with and without harmonic distortion are determined. The mean square error of harvested energy is observed as −86.8 dBm (8.4e-06) and that of the received SNR is 49.24 dB (137.68).