Abstract

In this chapter, we investigate the performance of the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) relaying network with radio-frequency (RF) power transfer. Specifically, this considered system consists of one RF power supply station, one source, one energy-constrained relay, and multiple energy-constrained NOMA users. The better user and relay can help the source to forward the message to worse user by using the energy harvested from the power station. The triple-phase harvest-transmit-forward transmission protocol is proposed for this considered system. The exact closed-form expressions of outage probability and throughput for each link and whole system are derived by using the statistical characteristics of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of transmission links. In order to understand more detail about the behavior of this considered system, the numerical results are provided according to the system key parameters, such as the transmit power, number of users, time switching ratio, and power allocation coefficients. The simulation results are also provided to confirm the correctness of our analysis.

Keywords: outage probability, non-orthogonal multiple access, relaying, radio frequency, wireless energy harvesting
