2014/08/31 by Tao Li, Li, Tao, Pingyi Fan +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.0286
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Energy harvesting technique is a potential way for relay node energy supply in cooperative networks in terms of deployment flexibility and maintain charge reduction. Unlike traditional power source, relay node in this case may run out of energy with certain probability, which can degrade the benefit from relay-aided cooperative transmission. In this paper, we concentrate on the outage behavior of cooperative networks aided by energy harvesting relay node in slow fading channel, and attempt to derive the closed-form expression of outage probability of proposed cooperative protocol. Compared with traditional direct transmission protocol, two conclusions are derived: 1) the diversity gain cannot be increased excepting the extreme case that energy-exhausted probability is zero; 2) a multiplicative gain for improving system performance can be obtained in terms of minimizing outage probability.