Power Switching Protocol for Two-way Relaying Network under Hardware Impairments

In this paper, we analyze the impact of hardware impairments at relay node and source node (i.e. imperfect nodes) on network performance by evaluating outage probability based on the effective signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR). Especially, we propose energy harvesting protocol at the relay and source nodes, namely, power switching imperfect relay (PSIR) and power switching imperfect source (PSIS). Aiming to determine the performance of energy constrained network, we first derive closed-form expressions of the outage probability and then the throughput can be maximized in delay-limited transmission mode. The simulation results provide practical insights into the impacts of hardware impairments and power switching factors of the energy harvesting protocol on the performance of energy harvesting enabled two-way relaying network

Full-Duplex Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks with Wireless Energy Harvesting

This paper proposes and analyzes a new full-duplex (FD) cooperative cognitive radio network with wireless energy harvesting (EH). We consider that the secondary receiver is equipped with a FD radio and acts as a FD hybrid access point (HAP), which aims to collect information from its associated EH secondary transmitter (ST) and relay the signals. The ST is assumed to be equipped with an EH unit and a rechargeable battery such that it can harvest and accumulate energy from radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by the primary transmitter (PT) and the HAP. We develop a novel cooperative spectrum sharing (CSS) protocol for the considered system. In the proposed protocol, thanks to its FD capability, the HAP can receive the PT's signals and transmit energy-bearing signals to charge the ST simultaneously, or forward the PT's signals and receive the ST's signals at the same time. We derive analytical expressions for the achievable throughput of both primary and secondary links by characterizing the dynamic charging/discharging behaviors of the ST battery as a finite-state Markov chain. We present numerical results to validate our theoretical analysis and demonstrate the merits of the proposed protocol over its non-cooperative counterpart.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, conferenc

Impact of primary networks on the performance of energy harvesting cognitive radio networks

In this paper, we investigate the effect of of the primary network on the secondary network when harvesting energy in cognitive radio in the presence of multiple power beacons and multiple secondary transmitters. In particular, the influence of the primary transmitter’s transmit power on the energy harvesting secondary network is examined by studying two scenarios of primary transmitter’s location, i.e., the primary transmitter’s location is near to the secondary network and the primary transmitter’s location is far from the secondary network. In the scenario where the primary transmitter locates near to the secondary network, although secondary transmitter can be benefit from the harvested energy from the primary transmitter, the interference caused by the primary transmitter suppresses the secondary network performance. Meanwhile, in both scenarios, despite the fact that the transmit power of the secondary transmitter can be improved by the support of powerful power beacons, the peak interference constraint at the primary receiver limits this advantage. In addition, the deployment of multiple power beacons and multiple secondary transmitters can improve the performance of the secondary network. The analytical expressions of the outage probability of the secondary network in the two scenarios are also provided and verified by numerical simulations