Distributed Beamforming with Wirelessly Powered Relay Nodes

Iqbal, M. O., Mahmood, A., Rahman, M. M. U. and Abbasi, Q. H. (2017) Distributed Beamforming with Wirelessly Powered Relay Nodes. In: IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2017-Spring, Sydney, Australia, 4-7 June 2017, ISBN 9781509059324 (doi: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108316)

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Abstract

This paper studies a system where a set of N relay nodes harvest energy from the signal received from a source to later utilize it when forwarding the source's data to a destination node via distributed beamforming. To this end, we derive (approximate) analytical expressions for the mean SNR at destination node when relays employ: i) time-switching based energy harvesting policy, ii) power- splitting based energy harvesting policy. The obtained results facilitate the study of the interplay between the energy harvesting parameters and the synchronization error, and their combined impact on mean SNR. Simulation results indicate that i) the derived approximate expressions are very accurate even for small N (e.g., N=15), ii) time-switching policy by the relays outperforms power-splitting policy by at least 3 dB.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Abbasi, Professor Qammer
Authors: Iqbal, M. O., Mahmood, A., Rahman, M. M. U., and Abbasi, Q. H.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
ISBN:9781509059324
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2017 IEEE
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher

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