Outage probability of NOMA system with wireless power transfer at source and full-duplex relay

Abstract In this paper, we analyze the performance of a novel communication scheme that combines three new techniques, namely energy harvesting (EH), full-duplex (FD) relay and cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In this scheme, both the source and the relay harvest energy from the power beacon (PB) at the first phase of the transmission block and then use the harvested energy to transmit messages during the remaining phase. In this proposed EH-FD-NOMA system, the FD relay employs the amplify-and-forward scheme. We consider two destinations, one of them is far from the FD relay and the other is near the FD relay. Based on the mathematical calculation, we derive the closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) of the two users of interest. The numerical results show that the performance at two destinations can be maintained at the same level with proper power allocation. Furthermore, for each value of the PB transmit power, there exists an optimal value for the EH time duration to improve the performance of both users. In addition, the impact of the residual self-interference (RSI) due to imperfect self-interference cancellation (SIC) at the FD relay is also considered. Finally, numerical results are demonstrated through Monte-Carlo simulations.