Relay Selection in Two-Way Full-Duplex Energy-Harvesting Relay Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the optimization of the power splitting factor and the relay selection problem in two-way full-duplex (FD) relay networks, where the relays are wirelessly powered by harvesting a portion of the received signal power from the sources. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first time that the two-way FD relays with simultaneous wireless and information transfer (SWIPT) capabilities are investigated. For each relay, we prove the quasi- convexity of the power splitting (PS) factor optimization and obtain the optimal PS factor in terms of the outage probability by linear search. We propose two relay selection schemes that minimize the outage probability and maximize the sum capacity respectively. The performance improvement over the random selection scheme and the all- participate scheme is demonstrated by simulations.