Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer

In this article, we investigate a two-hop decode-and-forward (DF) multicasting multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless relay communication system. Different to conventional systems, the radio frequency (RF) energy from the source node is harvested at the relay node and used for forwarding sig...

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Main Authors: Wang, S., He, Z., Rong, Yue
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88929
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author Wang, S.
He, Z.
Rong, Yue
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He, Z.
Rong, Yue
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description In this article, we investigate a two-hop decode-and-forward (DF) multicasting multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless relay communication system. Different to conventional systems, the radio frequency (RF) energy from the source node is harvested at the relay node and used for forwarding signals to a group of receivers. Considering the structure of the energy harvesting (EH) relay node, we present a power splitting (PS) based protocol and a novel time switching (TS) based protocol by introducing two additional TS factors. For both protocols, we maximize the system mutual information (MI) of the multicasting MIMO relay system by jointly optimizing the source and relay covariance matrices under the constraints of the source energy and the relay harvested energy. In addition, a practical nonlinear EH model is adopted, where the energy harvested by the relay node is bounded as the incident RF signal power increases, and the harvested power is zero when the input power is below the minimum power for harvesting. For the TS based protocol, we also consider peak transmission power constraints at both the source and relay nodes. The performance of the proposed algorithms is verified via numerical simulations. The results demonstrate that the novel TS based protocol achieves a larger MI than the conventional TS protocol. The PS and TS based protocols achieve tradeoffs at different source power levels. In particular, compared with the PS based protocol, the proposed novel TS based protocol can reach a higher system MI when the EH bound is not reached, while the former protocol reaches a higher MI when the EH circuit is saturated. We show that the peak harvested energy constraint plays an important role in selecting the optimal location of the relay node.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-889292022-08-05T05:16:38Z Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer Wang, S. He, Z. Rong, Yue Science & Technology Technology Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Telecommunications Engineering Decode-and-forward MIMO-relay multicasting power-splitting simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) time-switching ENERGY-TRANSFER DESIGN SWIPT In this article, we investigate a two-hop decode-and-forward (DF) multicasting multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless relay communication system. Different to conventional systems, the radio frequency (RF) energy from the source node is harvested at the relay node and used for forwarding signals to a group of receivers. Considering the structure of the energy harvesting (EH) relay node, we present a power splitting (PS) based protocol and a novel time switching (TS) based protocol by introducing two additional TS factors. For both protocols, we maximize the system mutual information (MI) of the multicasting MIMO relay system by jointly optimizing the source and relay covariance matrices under the constraints of the source energy and the relay harvested energy. In addition, a practical nonlinear EH model is adopted, where the energy harvested by the relay node is bounded as the incident RF signal power increases, and the harvested power is zero when the input power is below the minimum power for harvesting. For the TS based protocol, we also consider peak transmission power constraints at both the source and relay nodes. The performance of the proposed algorithms is verified via numerical simulations. The results demonstrate that the novel TS based protocol achieves a larger MI than the conventional TS protocol. The PS and TS based protocols achieve tradeoffs at different source power levels. In particular, compared with the PS based protocol, the proposed novel TS based protocol can reach a higher system MI when the EH bound is not reached, while the former protocol reaches a higher MI when the EH circuit is saturated. We show that the peak harvested energy constraint plays an important role in selecting the optimal location of the relay node. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88929 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3072728 English IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Decode-and-forward
MIMO-relay
multicasting
power-splitting
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)
time-switching
ENERGY-TRANSFER
DESIGN
SWIPT
Wang, S.
He, Z.
Rong, Yue
Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title_full Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title_fullStr Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title_full_unstemmed Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title_short Joint Transceiver Optimization for DF Multicasting MIMO Relay Systems with Wireless Information and Power Transfer
title_sort joint transceiver optimization for df multicasting mimo relay systems with wireless information and power transfer
topic Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Decode-and-forward
MIMO-relay
multicasting
power-splitting
simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)
time-switching
ENERGY-TRANSFER
DESIGN
SWIPT
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88929