Improving throughput in SWIPT-based wireless multirelay networks with relay selection and rateless codes

Abstract

This paper studies a dual-hop Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT)-based multi-relay network with a direct link. To achieve high throughput in the network, a novel protocol is first developed, in which the network can switch between a direct transmission mode and a Single-Relay-Selection-based Cooperative Transmission (SRS-CT) mode that employs dynamic decode-and-forward relaying accomplished with Rateless Codes (RCs). Then, under this protocol, an optimization problem is formulated to jointly optimize the network operation mode and the resource allocation in the SRS-CT mode. The formulated problem is difficult to solve because not only does the noncausal Channel State Information (CSI) cause the problem to be stochastic, but also the energy state evolution at each relay is complicated by network operation mode decision and resource allocation. Assuming that noncausal CSI is available, the stochastic optimization issue is first to be addressed by solving an involved deterministic optimization problem via dynamic programming, where the complicated energy state evolution issue is addressed by a layered optimization method. Then, based on a finite-state Markov channel model and assuming that CSI statistical properties are known, the stochastic optimization problem is solved by extending the result derived for the noncausal CSI case to the causal CSI case. Finally, a myopic strategy is proposed to achieve a tradeoff between complexity and performance without the knowledge of CSI statistical properties. The simulation results verify that our proposed SRS-and-RC-based design can achieve a maximum of approximately 40% throughput gain over a simple SRS-and-RC-based baseline scheme in SWIPT-based multi-relay networks.

Keywords

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer / Energy harvesting / Relay networks / Throughput maximization

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