OFDM Based SWIPT for Two-Way AF Relaying Network

Abstract

We consider a three-node two-way relaying network, where an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay helps to forward the information of source nodes by using the energy harvested from the radio frequency signals transmitted from the two source nodes. The source and relay nodes work on half-duplex, which completes the transmission in two phases. Specifically, in the first transmission phase, two source nodes transmit their signals to relay. The received signals at relay will be divided into two subcarrier groups, to perform information decoding and energy harvesting separately. In the second transmission phase, after subcarrier pairing, relay amplifies the received signals then forwards them to the two source nodes with the harvested energy. An joint resource optimization problem, including subcarrier grouping, paring and power allocation, is formulated to maximize the sum transmission rate of source nodes with power constraints. Simulation analyses show that our proposed algorithm outperforms the other two benchmark algorithms and reveal the system performance influence of relay location and total transmission power.