Performance of Energy Harvesting Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward Relay Network with TAS/MRC

Abstract

In this work, we examine an energy harvesting full-duplex (FD) amplify-and-forward relaying network with transmit antenna selection (TAS) at the source and maximal-ratio combining at the destination. The dual hop network with a direct path consists of the source with Ns antennas and the destination with ND antennas besides the FD relay is equipped with a single transmit and receive antenna. TAS is applied between the source and the relay and the same antenna selected with TAS scheme is used for both relaying and direct paths. The rake receiver is used for signals received from both paths at the destination with selection combining scheme. The system model is developed and outage probability is examined in Rayleigh fading channels supported by Monte Carlo simulations.