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In this paper, we propose a decode-and-forward relaying scheme under the effects of hardware impairments. In this proposed scheme, a cooperative relay uses a power-splitting receiver to harvest energy from the radio-frequency signals of a source node and applies a decode-and-forward technique to process the arriving signals. The system performance of the proposed protocol is analyzed in terms of the exact outage probability. Monte Carlo simulation is used to verify the theoretical analysis. Performance evaluations show that the proposed protocol performs best at an optimal power splitting ratio, and outperforms a direct transmission scheme when the relay is far to the destination. The optimal power splitting ratio is obtained more precisely using the golden section search method. In addition, serious effects of hardware impairments robustly diminish the system performance of the proposed protocol and the direct transmission protocol. Finally, the outage probability expressions match the simulation values well.
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This research is funded by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) under grant number B2017-20-04.
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Appendix 1: Proof of Lemma 1
The CDF of the random variable \(X_i\) is expressed as
Hence, the pdf of \(X_i\) is inferred as
From (32) and (33), Lemma 1 is completely proven.
Appendix 2: Proof of Lemma 2
The joint CDF of the random variable Z and the condition \({g_1} \ge {\theta _1}\) is expressed as
From (34), when \(\left( {1 - {K^2}z} \right) \ge 0\) or \(z \ge {K^{ - 2}}\), then \({F_{Z,{g_i} \ge {\theta _1}}}\left( z \right) = 1\).
Considering \(z < {K^{ - 2}}\), \({F_{Z,{g_i} \ge {\theta _1}}}\left( z \right) \) in (34) is obtained as
where \(K_v(x)\) is a v-order modified Bessel function of the second kind [22, Eq. (8.432.6)].
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Son, P.N., Kong, H.Y. Energy-Harvesting Decode-and-Forward Relaying Under Hardware Impairments. Wireless Pers Commun 96, 6381–6395 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4483-x
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