Performance analysis of power-splitting relaying protocol in SWIPT based cooperative NOMA systems

Huu Q Tran,Ca V Phan,Quoc-Tuan Vien

doi:10.1186/s13638-021-01981-9

Abstract

This paper investigates a relay assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for downlink in cellular systems. Cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) is employed along with power splitting protocol to enable both energy harvesting (EH) and information processing (IP). A downlink model consists of a base station (BS) and two users is considered, in which the near user (NU) is selected as a relay to forward the received signal from the BS to the far user (FU). Maximum ratio combining is then employed at the FU to combine both the signals received from the BS and NU. Closed form expressions of outage propability, throughput, ergodic rate and energy efficiency (EE) are firstly derived for the SWIPT based C-NOMA considering both scenarios of with and without direct link between the BS and FU. The impacts of EH time, EH efficiency, power-splitting ratio, source data rate and distance between different nodes on the performance are then investigated. The simulation results show that the C-NOMA with direct link achieves an outperformed performance over C-NOMA without direct link. Moreover, the performance of C-NOMA with direct link is also higher than that for OMA. Specifically, (1) the outage probability for C-NOMA in both direct and relaying link cases is always lower than that for OMA. (2) the outage probability, throughput and ergodic rate vary according to beta, (3) the EE of both users can obtain in SNR range of from -10 to 5 dB and it decreases linearly as SNR increases. Numerical results are provided to verify the findings.

Highlights

IntroductionOne of the critical features of Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques is that multiple users are permitted to use the same resources in time, frequency and/or code domain [4]
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently been shown as one of the potential candidates for 5G and beyond based wireless networks to overcome the limitations of the current technologies such as energy efficiency, latency and user fairness [1,2,3].One of the critical features of NOMA techniques is that multiple users are permitted to use the same resources in time, frequency and/or code domain [4]
2 Methods we investigate the combination of the cooperative NOMA (C-NOMA) based system model and Power-splitting relaying (PSR) based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technique

Summary

Introduction

One of the critical features of NOMA techniques is that multiple users are permitted to use the same resources in time, frequency and/or code domain [4]. It means that a strong user, i.e. a NU, is given a lower power allocation factor than a weak user, i.e. a FU, to ensure user fairness [1, 5,6,7]. As an extended version of NOMA, cooperative NOMA (C-NOMA) [8, 9] exploits a user with better channel conditions, namely a relaying user, to assist to forward the information to another user with poor channel conditions It can increase the coverage region of BS and improve the performance of NOMA systems

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