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Outage performance analysis of non-orthogonal multiple access systems with RF energy harvesting

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2021

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has drawn enormous attention from the research community as a promising technology for future wireless communications with increasing demands of capacity and throughput. Especially, in the light of fifth-generation (5G) communication where multiple internet-of-things (IoT) devices are connected, the application of NOMA to indoor wireless networks has become more interesting to study. In view of this, we investigate the NOMA technique in energy harvesting (EH) half-duplex (HD) decode-and-forward (DF) power-splitting relaying (PSR) networks over indoor scenarios which are characterized by log-normal fading channels. The system performance of such networks is evaluated in terms of outage probability (OP) and total throughput for delay-limited transmission mode whose expressions are derived herein. In general, we can see in details how different system parameters affect such networks thanks to the results from Monte Carlo simulations. For illustrating the accuracy of our analytical results, we plot them along with the theoretical ones for comparison.

Outage probability for a multiuser NOMA-based network using energy harvesting relays

Nonlinear Engineering

This article evaluates the energy-harvesting capabilities of a multiuser non-orthogonal multiple access-based system, where energy harvesting relays utilise the power splitting relaying protocol to harvest energy and amplify-and-forward protocol to forward the signals to the connected users. The expressions for each user’s energy harvesting outage probability are calculated and compared to the same system model without energy harvesting. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the energy-harvesting relay nodes and the improved outage probability of each user.

Enhancing the Performance of Downlink NOMA Relaying Networks by RF Energy Harvesting and Data Buffering at Relay

2020

Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a promising candidate for next-generation mobile communications because it can significantly improve the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate a novel solution to enhance the reliability and the supply stability of a downlink NOMA relaying networks, in which we integrate two techniques: (i) simultaneous wireless information and power transfer, i.e. the relay node can harvest the energy from source signals and use this energy to help forward information from source node to two user nodes; and (ii) data buffer aid at relay node, i.e. the data packets received from the source can be stored in a buffer and then be re-transmitted to the destination nodes only when the channel condition is good. The performance of the proposed system is analyzed rigorously to derive the system outage probability and the average packet delay. Furthermore, a power allocation optimization problem to minim...

Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power

In this paper, the application of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks in which users are spatially randomly located is investigated. A new cooperative SWIPT NOMA protocol is proposed, in which near NOMA users that are close to the source act as energy harvesting relays to help far NOMA users. Since the locations of users have a significant impact on the performance, three user selection schemes based on the user distances from the base station are proposed. To characterize the performance of the proposed selection schemes, closed-form expressions for the outage probability and system throughput are derived. These analytical results demonstrate that the use of SWIPT will not jeopardize the diversity gain compared to the conventional NOMA. The proposed results confirm that the opportunistic use of node locations for user selection can achieve low outage probability and deliver superior throughput in comparison to the random selection scheme.

Joint impacts of relaying scheme and wireless power transfer in multiple access of cellular networks

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2021

This paper considers ergodic capacity of energy harvesting (EH) based cellular networks. Such a network employs non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) together with relaying scheme to serve two far users. In this system model, relay is facilitated power splitting (PS) protocol to implement energy harvesting (EH). To examine capacity, expressions of signal to noise ratio (SNR) need be computed to achieve capacity. Power allocation factors are different for two users in such system and hence performance gap happens to distinguish requirements for separated users. It can be confirmed that the proposed paradigm exhibits maximal achievable capacity in some scenarios of setting parameters. To confirm exactness of the analytical expressions and show advantages of the proposed EH-NOMA, simulation results are performed in terms of ergodic capacity. This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.

Exploiting user grouping and energy harvesting in downlink cellular system

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 2022

A mobile communication system combining energy harvesting with a cooperative nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is presented in this research. In the proposed scheme, the relay is assumed to have a limited power source, and it will harvest radio energy from the base station (BS) to serve the near and far users. In this scenario, we consider two possible situations during information transmission in the NOMA application system: perfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) and imperfect successive interference cancellation. The system performance is assessed primarily based on closed-form outage probability expressions. Numerical simulations are conducted to examine the outage probability of the proposed scheme and to verify the derived formulas. The study results have proved that the system performance is still good under the imperfect SIC condition, and several optimal parameters to improve the system performance have been found. Moreover, our research results have shown the superior performance of the proposed model compared with current orthogonal multiple access (OMA) networks.

Throughput analysis of non-orthogonal multiple access and orthogonal multiple access assisted wireless energy harvesting K-hop relaying networks

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2023

This study introduces the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique into the wireless energy harvesting K-hop relay network to increase throughput. The relays have no dedicated energy source and thus depend on energy harvested by wireless from a power beacon (PB). Recently, NOMA has been promoted as a technology with the potential to enhance connectivity, reduce latency, increase fairness amongst users, and raise spectral effectiveness compared to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) technology. For performance considerations, we derive exact throughput expressions for NOMA and OMA-assisted multi-hop relaying and compare the performance between the two. The obtained results are validated via Monte Carlo simulations.

Performance of a Multiuser Cooperative IoT NOMA Network with Battery-Assisted Energy Harvesting

This paper investigates a cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (Co-NM) based network consisting of a multiantenna source, a full-duplex energy harvesting (EH) near user (NU) internet-of-things (IoT) node and multiple distant user (DU) IoT nodes. The source shares a direct link to the NU, while the NU augments the harvested energy by a limited amount of its battery energy to relay the information to the selected DU. Considering time-switching (TS) or power-splitting (PS) protocol, practical nonlinear EH, successive interference cancellation error, and opportunistic Co-NM/OMA (OM) switching, closed-form expressions are derived for the outage probability and throughput of both DU and NU. We demonstrate that the proposed opportunistic Co-NM/OM switching can ensure a performance similar to OM at the NU without loss in DU throughput. Also, a joint optimal choice of battery energy and PS/TS parameter helps in attaining a maximum energy efficiency (EE). Moreover, Co-NM/OM switching e...

NOMA Throughput and Energy Efficiency in Energy Harvesting Enabled Networks

Energy harvesting (EH) enabled networks provide an opportunity to deliver not only information but also energy to users, who are deployed close to the base stations (near-by users). However, the wireless energy delivery via radio-frequency radiation in such networks requires much more transmit power than normal information delivery, which makes it very challenging to provide the quality of the wireless information and power delivery to nearby users and of the wireless information delivery to cell-edge users. Thus, it is of practical interest to employ non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to improve the throughput of all network users, while fulfilling the EH requirements of the nearby users. To realize both EH and information decoding, we consider a transmit time-switching (transmit-TS) protocol. We formulate two important transmit beamforming problems of users' max-min throughput optimization and energy efficiency maximization under power constraint and EH thresholds at the nearly-located users, which are non-convex in beamforming vectors. Thus, we develop efficient path-following algorithms to solve them. In addition, we also consider conventional power splitting (PS)-based EH receiver. Our numerical results confirm that the proposed transmit-TS based algorithms clearly outperform PS-based algorithms in terms of both, throughput and energy efficiency.). 2 Wireless power delivery, energy harvesting, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), nonconvex optimization , throughput, energy efficiency, quality-of-service (QoS).