Effects of Hardware Impairment on the Cooperative NOMA EH Relaying Network Over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the performance of Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Energy harvesting relaying system in presence of hardware impairments at both the transmitter and receiver over a Nakagami-m fading channel. The proposed system with destinations are allocated different power levels in which the source node communicates with the destinations via an energy harvesting (EH) relay employing a power-splitting relaying architecture and a direct link to the near destination. Moreover, the amplify-and-forward protocol at the EH relay is investigated to evaluate the performance of system. Additionally, the expressions for outage probability are derived, and these analyses are verified by a Monte Carlo simulation. Furthermore, these results are also compared to an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) system. Finally, the effects of various parameters, such as power allocation levels, position of EH relay node, channel coefficients, and hardware impairment levels on the outage performance and throughput of proposed NOMA-EH system and OMA system are investigated. These results demonstrate the advantage of NOMA-EH system as user fairness since multiple destinations compared to the OMA-EH system.