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Optimization of a Power Splitting Protocol for Two-Way Multiple Energy Harvesting Relay System
Energy harvesting (EH) combined with cooperative communications constitutes a
promising solution for future wireless technologies. They enable additional
efficiency and increased lifetime to wireless networks. This paper investigates
a multiple-relay selection scheme for an EH-based two-way relaying (TWR)
system. All relays are considered as EH nodes that harvest energy from
renewable energy and radio frequency (RF) sources. Some of them are selected to
forward data to the destinations. The power splitting (PS) protocol, by which
the EH node splits the input RF signal into two components for EH and
information transmission, is adopted at the relay nodes. The objective is to
jointly optimize i) the set of selected relays, ii) their PS ratios, and iii)
their transmit power levels in order to maximize data rate-based utilities over
multiple coherent time slots. A joint-optimization solution based on geometric
programming (GP) and binary particle swarm optimization is proposed to solve
non-convex problems for two utility functions reflecting the level of fairness
in the TWR transmission. Numerical results illustrate the system's behavior
versus various parameters and show that the performance of the proposed scheme
is very close to that of the optimal branch-and-bound method and that GP
outperforms the dual problem-based method
Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks with RF Energy Harvesting and Transfer
Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting and transfer techniques have recently
become alternative methods to power the next generation of wireless networks.
As this emerging technology enables proactive replenishment of wireless
devices, it is advantageous in supporting applications with quality-of-service
(QoS) requirement. This article focuses on the resource allocation issues in
wireless networks with RF energy harvesting capability, referred to as RF
energy harvesting networks (RF-EHNs). First, we present an overview of the
RF-EHNs, followed by a review of a variety of issues regarding resource
allocation. Then, we present a case study of designing in the receiver
operation policy, which is of paramount importance in the RF-EHNs. We focus on
QoS support and service differentiation, which have not been addressed by
previous literatures. Furthermore, we outline some open research directions.Comment: To appear in IEEE Networ
Wireless Information and Energy Transfer for Two-Hop Non-Regenerative MIMO-OFDM Relay Networks
This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and energy
transfer for the non-regenerative multipleinput multiple-output orthogonal
frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) relaying system. By considering two
practical receiver architectures, we present two protocols, time switchingbased
relaying (TSR) and power splitting-based relaying (PSR). To explore the system
performance limit, we formulate two optimization problems to maximize the
end-to-end achievable information rate with the full channel state information
(CSI) assumption. Since both problems are non-convex and have no known solution
method, we firstly derive some explicit results by theoretical analysis and
then design effective algorithms for them. Numerical results show that the
performances of both protocols are greatly affected by the relay position.
Specifically, PSR and TSR show very different behaviors to the variation of
relay position. The achievable information rate of PSR monotonically decreases
when the relay moves from the source towards the destination, but for TSR, the
performance is relatively worse when the relay is placed in the middle of the
source and the destination. This is the first time to observe such a
phenomenon. In addition, it is also shown that PSR always outperforms TSR in
such a MIMO-OFDM relaying system. Moreover, the effect of the number of
antennas and the number of subcarriers are also discussed.Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, to appear in IEEE Selected Areas in
Communication
Multi-source in DF cooperative networks with the PSR protocol based full-duplex energy harvesting over a Rayleigh fading channel: performance analysis
Due to the tremendous energy consumption growth with ever-increasing connected devices, alternative wireless information and power transfer techniques are important not only for theoretical research but also for saving operational costs and for a sustainable growth of wireless communications. In this paper, we investigate the multi-source in decode-and-forward cooperative networks with the power splitting protocol based full-duplex energy harvesting relaying network over a Rayleigh fading channel. In this system model, the multi-source and the destination communicate with each other by both the direct link and an intermediate helping relay. First, we investigate source selection for the best system performance. Then, the closed-form expression of the outage probability and the symbol error ratio are derived. Finally, the Monte Carlo simulation is used for validating the analytical expressions in connection with all main possible system parameters. The research results show that the analytical and simulation results matched well with each other.Web of Science68327526
Dynamic Power Splitting Policies for AF Relay Networks with Wireless Energy Harvesting
Wireless energy harvesting (WEH) provides an exciting way to supply energy
for relay nodes to forward information for the source-destination pairs. In
this paper, we investigate the problem on how the relay node dynamically
adjusts the power splitting ratio of information transmission (IT) and energy
harvesting (EH) in order to achieve the optimal outage performance. According
to the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) at the relay, optimal
dynamic power splitting policy with full CSI and partial CSI are both provided.
Finally, through simulations, the proposed power splitting policies can improve
the outage performances and the policy with full CSI achieves the best
performance. It is also shown that the policy with partial CSI can approach the
policy with full CSI closely and incurs far less system overhead.Comment: accepted by IEEE ICC 2015 - Workshop on Green Communications and
Networks with Energy Harvesting, Smart Grids, and Renewable Energie
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