We consider wireless-powered amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying in cooperative communications, where an energy constrained relay node first harvests energy through the received radio-frequency signal from the source and then uses the harvested energy to forward the source information to the destination node. We propose time-switching based energy harvesting (EH) and information transmission (IT) protocols with two modes of EH at the relay. For continuous time EH, the EH time can be any percentage of the total transmission block time. For discrete time EH, the whole transmission block is either used for EH or IT. The proposed protocols are attractive because they do not require channel state information at the transmitter side and enable relay transmission with preset fixed transmission power. We derive analytical expressions of the achievable throughput for the proposed protocols. The derived expressions are verified by comparison with simulations and allow the system performance to be determined as a function of the system parameters. Finally, we show that the proposed protocols outperform the existing fixed time duration EH protocols in the literature, since they intelligently track the level of the harvested energy to switch between EH and IT in an online fashion, allowing efficient use of resources.
Recently, considering AF relaying, the throughput performance of a single-way relaying network @cite_12 and outage probability and ergodic capacity of two-way relaying network @cite_28 under energy harvesting constraints were studied. The outage performance and relay selection criteria in a large scale network with wireless energy harvesting and DF relaying was studied in @cite_48 . Finally, for a decode-and-forward (DF) relaying network, the power allocation strategies and outage performance under energy harvesting constraints was studied in @cite_43 . However, @cite_28 , @cite_32 , @cite_48 , and @cite_43 do not investigate analytical expressions for the achievable throughput at the destination node. In addition, @cite_12 considers energy harvesting time to have fixed duration and similar to @cite_28 , @cite_48 , and @cite_43 , does not allow energy accumulation at the relay node. .
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An emerging solution for prolonging the lifetime of energy constrained relay nodes in wireless networks is to avail the ambient radio-frequency (RF) signal and to simultaneously harvest energy and process information. In this paper, an amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying network is considered, where an energy constrained relay node harvests energy from the received RF signal and uses that harvested energy to forward the source information to the destination. Based on the time switching and power splitting receiver architectures, two relaying protocols, namely, i) time switching-based relaying (TSR) protocol and ii) power splitting-based relaying (PSR) protocol are proposed to enable energy harvesting and information processing at the relay. In order to determine the throughput, analytical expressions for the outage probability and the ergodic capacity are derived for delay-limited and delay-tolerant transmission modes, respectively. The numerical analysis provides practical insights into the effect of various system parameters, such as energy harvesting time, power splitting ratio, source transmission rate, source to relay distance, noise power, and energy harvesting efficiency, on the performance of wireless energy harvesting and information processing using AF relay nodes. In particular, the TSR protocol outperforms the PSR protocol in terms of throughput at relatively low signal-to-noise-ratios and high transmission rates. The performance analysis of optimal decode-and-forward (DF) relay selection for the full-duplex (FD) mode in underlay cognitive radio (CR) networks is studied, with the impact of critical parameters such as the residual self-interference, the distributions of the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the outage probability, being analyzed. Different from the conventional relay selection schemes with half-duplex (HD) mode, the FD relay suffers from the impact of residual self-interference due to its simultaneous transmission and reception using the same channel. Furthermore, the exact closed-form expressions for the outage probabilities of the proposed FD relay-selection scheme over both independent Nakagami- @math and Rayleigh fading channels are derived, with the validity of the proposed analysis being proven by using simulation. Numerical results show that, in the presence of multiple candidate relays, an optimum relay-selection solution in terms of outage probability can always be achievable within the SNR range of (10 dB, 15 dB). The performance of secondary user in underlay cognitive networks is analyzed by considering opportunistic selection of two-way full-duplex (FD)-based amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. The closed-form expressions for the distribution of end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are first derived, with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels assumed in each wireless link. After that, the theoretical closed-form expressions for various performance metrics, including the outage probability of each link, lower bounds of both the derived outage probability and the symbol error probability (SEP), and upper bound of the average outage channel capacity, are derived. Numerical results show that the performance of the secondary users can be substantially influenced by parameters such as the number of relays, the average SNR, the primary user’s tolerable interference threshold @math , and the power of residual self-interference in the FD relays after performance self-interference cancellation, etc. Furthermore, in the presence of multiple candidate relays, an optimum relay selection in terms of the outage probability, the SEP, the average channel capacity, and or the outage capacity can always be attained as long as the average SNR of each relaying link approaches @math . This paper investigates the use of full duplex relaying (FDR) in cognitive radio systems. Cognitive full duplex relay networks (CogFRNs) offer the advantage not only of increasing spectral efficiency by spectrum sharing but also of extending coverage through the use of relays. Concurrent transmissions at the source and relay in CogFRNs can overcome a loss of resource efficiency in a way that conventional half duplex relay (HDR) systems cannot. However, in CogFRNs, the primary user experiences interference from the secondary source and relay simultaneously due to the effects of full duplexing. Satisfying the interference constraint by simply reducing transmission power results in performance degradation for the secondary user. What is therefore needed is a way to optimize the transmission powers at the secondary source and relay. To address this need, we propose an optimal power allocation scheme based on minimizing the outage probability in CogFRNs. We then analyze the outage probability of the secondary user in the noise-limited and interference-limited environments. In addition, we also propose an outage-constrained power allocation scheme which does not require the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) for the link between the primary and secondary users. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes achieve performance improvement in terms of outage probability.