Statistical QoS Provisioning Resource Allocation Over SWIPT Based Relay Networks

Abstract

Energy scarcity becomes a key factor restricting the development of the wireless communications network. Wireless power transfer, as it can provide a sustainable and reliable energy supply for wireless communications devices, has drawn a lot of interests in recent a few years. Thus, combining wireless power transfer to the wireless communications network can potentially extend the lifetime of wireless devices and thus prolong the operating-time of networks. In this paper, we consider the two-hop wireless networks, where the source node transmits information to the destination assisted by the relay node and the relay simultaneously harvests energy and receive information from the source node. In order to maximize the effective capacity (EC), which is the maximum constant arrival rate under specified quality of service (QoS) requirements, we investigate the statistical QoS supported resource allocation policies under full duplex transmission mode for wireless powered relay networks. Finally, numerical results are demonstrated to validate the theoretical derivations, which highlights the proposed scheme in terms of EC performance in comparison to the benchmark scheme.