Relay selection based on energy harvesting in two-way full-duplex relay networks

Abstract

In this paper, the time switching (TS) relay protocol and the self-energy recycling (SER) relay protocol are integrated into a two-way full-duplex (FD) relay network. For the proposed TS FD relay protocol, the joint optimization of the TS factor and the relay selection (RS) problem is proposed, where the relay nodes switch between energy harvesting (EH) and FD information relaying in different phases. To remove the self-interference (SI) operation at the relay nodes, a novel FD transmission protocol suitable for the two-way relay system is proposed, in which the relay nodes can recycle the SI as part of energy. Then two relay selection schemes are proposed to improve the outage probability and the sum rate of the two-way relay networks. Besides, the proposed RS schemes and two FD relay protocols can improve the performance metrics and solve the power constraint of the relay node. Simulation results show that the proposed two RS schemes for two-way FD relay networks can improve the output performance than traditional schemes.