System Performance Analysis of Half-Duplex Relay Network over Rician Fading Channel

In this paper, the system performance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying network over Rician Fading Channel is proposed, analyzed and demonstrated. For details this analysis, the energy and information are transferred from the source to the relay nodes by two methods: 1) time switching protocol and 2) power splitting protocol. Firstly, due to the constraint of the wireless energy harvesting at the relay node, the analytical mathematical expressions of the achievable throughput and the outage probability of both schemes were proposed and demonstrated. After that, the effect of various system parameters on the system performance is rigorously studied with closed-form expressions for the system performance. Finally, the analytical results are also demonstrated by Monte-Carlo simulation in comparison with the closed-form expressions. The numerical results demonstrated the effect of various system parameters, such as energy harvesting time, power splitting ratio, source transmission to noise power, and the threshold value, on the system performance of AF wireless relay nodes. The results show that the analytical mathematical and simulated results match for all possible parameter values for both schemes

Performance analysis for multi-way relaying in rician fading channels

In this paper, the multi-way relaying scenario is considered with M users who want to exchange their information with each other with the help of N relays (N ≫ M) among them. There are no direct transmission channels between any two users. Particularly, all users transmit their signals to all relays in the first time slot and M - 1 relays are selected later to broadcast their mixture signals during the following M - 1 time slots to all users. Compared to the transmission with the help of single relay, the multi-way relaying scenario reduces the transmit time significantly from 2M to M time slots. Random and semiorthogonal relays selections are applied. Rician fading channels are considered between the users and relays, and analytical expressions for the outage probability and ergodic sum rate for the proposed relaying protocol are developed by first characterizing the statistical property of the effective channel gain based on random relays selection. Also, the approximation of ergodic sum rate at high signal-to-noise ratio regime is derived. In addition, the diversity order of the system is investigated for both random and semiorthogonal relay selections. Meanwhile, it is shown that when the relays are randomly separated into L groups of M - 1 relays, the group with maximum average channel gain can achieve the diversity order L, which will increase when more relays considered in the scheme. Furthermore, when semiorthogonal selection (SS) algorithm is applied to select the relays with semiorthogonal channels, it is shown that the system will guarantee that all the users can decode the others information successfully. Moreover, the maximum of channel gain after semiorthogonal relays selection is investigated by using extreme value theory, and tight lower and upper bounds are derived. Simulation results demonstrate that the derived expressions are accurate