Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.2017-0096

Performance Analysis of Nonlinear Energy-Harvesting DF Relay System in Interference-Limited Nakagami-m Fading Environment  

Cvetkovic, Aleksandra (Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis)
Blagojevic, Vesna (Department of Telecommunications, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade)
Ivanis, Predrag (Department of Telecommunications, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade)
Publication Information
ETRI Journal / v.39, no.6, 2017 , pp. 803-812 More about this Journal
Abstract
A decode-and-forward system with an energy-harvesting relay is analyzed for the case when an arbitrary number of independent interference signals affect the communication at both the relay and the destination nodes. The scenario in which the relay harvests energy from both the source and interference signals using a time switching scheme is analyzed. The analysis is performed for the interference-limited Nakagami-m fading environment, assuming a realistic nonlinearity for the electronic devices. The closed-form outage probability expression for the system with a nonlinear energy harvester is derived. An asymptotic expression valid for the case of a simpler linear harvesting model is also provided. The derived analytical results are corroborated by an independent simulation model. The impacts of the saturation threshold power, the energy-harvesting ratio, and the number and power of the interference signals on the system performance are analyzed.
Keywords
Decode-and-forward relay scheme; Interference-limited environment; Nakagami-m fading; Nonlinear energy harvesting; Outage probability;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 1  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 M. Dohler and Y. Li, Cooperative Communications: Hardware, Channel and PHY, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
2 M.-L. Ku et al., "Advances in Energy Harvesting Communications: Past, Present, and Future Challenges," IEEE Commun. Surv. Tuts., vol. 18, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1384-1412.   DOI
3 S. Ulukus et al., "Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications: A Review of Recent Advances," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 33, no. 3, Jan. 2015, pp. 360-381.   DOI
4 S. Kosunalp, "MAC Protocols for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks: Survey," ETRI J., vol. 37, no. 4, Aug. 2015, pp. 804-812.   DOI
5 C. Huang, R. Zhang, and S. Cui, "Throughput Maximization for the Gaussian Relay Channel with Energy Harvesting Constraints," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 31, no. 8, Aug. 2013, pp. 1469-1479.   DOI
6 A.A. Nasir et al., "Relaying Protocols for Wireless Energy Harvesting and Information Processing," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 12, no. 7, July 2013, pp. 3622-3636.   DOI
7 L. Tang et al., "Wireless Information and Energy Transfer in Fading Relay Channels," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 12, Sept. 2016, pp. 3632-3645.   DOI
8 C. Zhong, S. Jin, and K.-K. Wong, "Dual-hop Systems with Noisy Relay and Interference-Limited Destination," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 58, no. 3, Mar. 2010, pp. 764-768.   DOI
9 D.B. da Costa, H. Ding, and J. Ge, "Interference-Limited Relaying Transmissions in Dual-Hop Cooperative Networks over Nakagami-m Fading," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 15, no. 5, May 2011, pp. 503-505.   DOI
10 S. Ikki and S. Aissa, "Multi-hop Wireless Relaying Systems in the Presence of Co-channel Interferences: Performance Analysis and Design Optimization," IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., vol. 61, no. 2, Feb. 2012, pp. 566-573.   DOI
11 N. Zhao et al., "Exploiting Interference for Energy Harvesting: A Survey, Research Issues and Challenges," IEEE Access, vol. 5, May 2017, pp. 10403-10421.   DOI
12 R. Gupta, A.K. Chaturvedi, and R. Budhiraja, "Improved Rate-Energy Trade off for Energy Harvesting Interference Alignment Networks," IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., vol. 6, no. 3, June 2017, pp. 410-413.   DOI
13 L. Liu, R. Zhang, and K.-C. Chua, "Wireless Information Transfer with Opportunistic Energy Harvesting," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 12, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 288-300.   DOI
14 T.X. Doan et al., "Energy Harvesting-Based D2D Communications in the Presence of Interference and Ambient RF Sources," IEEE Access, vol. 5, Mar. 2017, pp. 5224-5234.   DOI
15 Z. Xie, Y. Chen, and Y. Gao, "Joint Iterative Interference Alignment and Energy Harvesting for Multi-user Networks," IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., vol. 4, no. 6, Dec. 2015, pp. 597-600.   DOI
16 H. Gao, W. Ejaz, and M. Jo, "Cooperative Wireless Energy Harvesting and Spectrum Sharing in 5G Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 4, July 2016, pp. 3647-3658.   DOI
17 C.R. Valenta and G.D. Durgin, "Harvesting Wireless Power: Survey of Energy-Harvester Conversion Efficiency in Far-Field, Wireless Power Transfer Systems," IEEE Microw. Mag., vol. 15, no. 4, June 2014, pp. 108-120.   DOI
18 Y. Gu and S. Aissa, "RF-Based Energy Harvesting in Decode-and-Forward Relaying Systems: Ergodic and Outage Capacities," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 14, no. 11, Nov. 2015, pp. 6425-6434.   DOI
19 Y. Chen, "Energy-Harvesting AF Relaying in the Presence of Interference and Nakagami-m Fading," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 15, no. 2, Sept. 2016, pp. 1008-1017.   DOI
20 E. Boshkovska et al., "Practical Non-linear Energy Harvesting Model and Resource Allocation for SWIPT Systems," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 19, no.12, Sept. 2015, pp. 2082-2085.   DOI
21 Y. Dong, M.J. Hossain, and J. Cheng, "Performance of Wireless Powered Amplify and Forward Relaying over Nakagami-m Fading Channels with Nonlinear Energy Harvester," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 20, no. 4, Apr. 2016, pp. 672-675.   DOI
22 Wolfram Research, Accessed 2017. http://functions.wolfram.com/
23 J. Zhang and G. Pan, "Outage Analysis of Wireless-Powered Relaying MIMO Systems with Non-linear Energy Harvesters and Imperfect CSI," IEEE Access, vol. 4, Oct. 2016, pp. 7046-7053.   DOI
24 A.J. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
25 I.S. Gradshteyn and I.M. Ryzhik, Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, London, UK: Academic Press, 2007.
26 A. Papoulis, Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1991.