Analysis of Wireless Energy Harvesting Relay Throughput in Rician Channel

Abstract EN

Cooperative communication uses idle nodes to achieve performance gains.

Energy harvesting allows cooperative communication to be less dependent on batteries.

In this paper, the performance of energy harvesting (EH) amplify-and-forward relaying is analyzed for Rician fading channels, in contrast to previous works that focused on Rayleigh fading channels.

Continuous time EH protocol and discrete time EH protocol are considered.

Analytical expressions for the average throughput are derived.

Numerical results are presented to show the good performance of the system in Rician fading channels by examining various system parameters using the analytical expressions.