Abstract
This paper investigates the performance of an energy-harvesting (EH) relay network, where multiple sources communicate with a destination via multiple EH decode-and-forward (DF) relays. The EH relays all equip with a power splitter to divide the received signal power into two parts, which are used for signal processing and information forwarding, respectively. The power splitting ratio depicts the trade-off between the relaying energy and decoding energy. We propose an optimal power splitting and joint source-relay selection (OPS-JSRS) scheme where the optimal power-splitting ratio is obtained and the best source-relay pair is selected to transmit the message. For the purpose of comparison, we present the optimal power splitting and round-robin (OPS-RR) and the traditional power splitting and joint source-relay selection (TPS-JSRS) schemes. The exact and asymptotic closed-form expressions of outage probability for OPS-RR, TPS-JSRS and OPS-JSRS schemes are derived over Rayleigh fading channels . Numerical results show that the outage probability of OPS-JSRS scheme is lower than that of OPS-RR and TPS-JSRS schemes, explaining that the proposed OPS-JSRS scheme outperforms TPS-JSRS and OPS-RR schemes. Additionally, the outage probability performance of OPS-JSRS scheme can be improved by increasing the number of sources and/or relays.
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The subject is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of P. R. China (No. 61872196, No. 61872194, No. 61902196 , No. 62102194 and No. 62102196), Scientific and Technological Support Project of Jiangsu Province (No. BE2019740, No. BK20200753 and No. 20KJB520001), Major Natural Science Research Projects in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province (No. 18KJA520008), Six Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province (No. RJFW-111), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No.BK20200753), Jiangsu Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (No. 2021K096A), Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (No. KYCX19_0909, No. KYCX19_0911, No. KYCX20_0759, No. KYCX21_0787, No. KYCX21_0788 and No. KYCX21_0799).
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Derivation of (14)
Notice that \({{\left| {\mathop h\nolimits _{SmRn} } \right| ^2}}\) follows exponential distributions with the mean of \({{\mathop \sigma \nolimits _{SmRn}^2 }}\). Thus, the cumulative density function (CDF) of \({{\left| {\mathrm{{ }}{h_{S\mathop m\nolimits ^* \mathop R\nolimits _n }}} \right| ^2}}\) can be expressed as
Therefore, the PDF of \({{\left| {\mathop h\nolimits _{Sm\mathrm{{*}}Rn} } \right| ^2}}\) can be obtained as
Denoting \({X={\left| {\mathrm{{ }}{h_{S\mathop m\nolimits ^* \mathop R\nolimits _n }}} \right| ^2}}\),the \({\mathop P\nolimits _{out,1}^{\mathrm{{TPS - JSRS}}} }\) can be rewritten as
where \({a = \frac{{\mathop 2\nolimits ^{2R} - 1}}{{(1 - \mathop \rho \nolimits _n )\gamma }}}\). The term \({\prod \limits _{m = 1,m \ne i}^M {[1 - \exp ( - \frac{x}{{\mathop \sigma \nolimits _{SmRn}^2 }})]}}\) can be expanded as
where \({\mathop D\nolimits _k }\) represents the k-th nonempty subset of M sources, \({\left| {\mathop D\nolimits _k } \right| }\) represents the number of elements in set \({\mathop D\nolimits _k }\). Thus, the \({\mathop P\nolimits _{out,1}^{\mathrm{{TPS - JSRS}}} }\) can be rewritten as
where
and
Using the Maclaurin series expansion, we have
Substituting (45) into (43),we can obtain the \({\mathop \Phi \nolimits _1 }\) as (46) at the top of following page, where \({Ei(x) = \int _x^\infty {\frac{{\mathop e\nolimits ^t }}{t}} dt}\)
and
Similarly, substituting (45) into (44), we can obtain the \({\mathop \Phi \nolimits _2 }\) as
where \({b = \frac{1}{{\mathop \sigma \nolimits _{SiRn}^2 }} + \sum \limits _{Sm \in \mathop D\nolimits _k } {\frac{1}{{\mathop \sigma \nolimits _{SmRn}^2 }}} }\) and
Substituting (46) and (48) into (42), \({\mathop P\nolimits _{out,1}^{\mathrm{{TPS - JSRS}}} }\) can be obtained as (14).
Derivation of (30)
Denoting \({Y = {\left| {\mathrm{{ }}{h_{RnD}}} \right| ^2}}\), the \({\mathop P\nolimits _{out}^{\mathrm{{OPS - JSRS}}} }\) can be rewritten as
The term \({\prod \limits _{m = 1}^M {[1 - \exp ( - \frac{\alpha }{{\sigma _{SmRn}^2y}} - \frac{{\alpha \eta }}{{\sigma _{SmRn}^2}})]}}\) can be expanded as
where \({\mathop A\nolimits _j }\) represents the j-th nonempty subset of M sources, \({\left| {\mathop A\nolimits _j } \right| }\) represents the number of elements in set \({\mathop A\nolimits _j }\). Substituting (51) into (50), we can obtain the outage probability of OPS-JSRS scheme \({\mathop P\nolimits _{out}^{\mathrm{{OPS - JSRS}}} }\) as (30).
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Jiang, X., Li, P. & Wang, R. Power Splitting and Source-Relay Selection in Energy Harvesting Wireless Network. Wireless Pers Commun 124, 2141–2160 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09449-1
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