Improving the throughput of wireless powered dual-hop systems with full duplex relaying

We consider a dual-hop full-duplex (FD) relaying system, where the energy constrained relay node is powered by radio frequency signals from the source using the time-switching architecture. Both the amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying protocols are studied. Specifically, we provide an analytical characterization of the achievable throughput of three different communication modes, namely, instantaneous transmission, delay-constrained transmission, and delay tolerant transmission. In addition, the optimal time split is studied for different transmission modes. Our results reveal that, when the time split is optimized, FD relaying could substantially boost the system throughput compared to the conventional half-duplex relaying architecture for all three transmission modes. In addition, it is shown that the instantaneous transmission mode has the highest throughput. However, compared to the delay tolerant transmission mode, the throughput gap is negligible. Unlike the instantaneous time split optimization which requires instantaneous channel state information, the optimal time split in the delay tolerant transmission mode depends only on the statistics of the channel, hence, is attractive for practical implementation.

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