Analysis of the energy harvesting non-orthogonal multiple access technique for defense applications over Rayleigh fading channel conditions

The energy harvesting (EH) technique has ignited a rising research interest due to its ability to enhance the battery power of user equipment by harvesting energy by using a simple radio frequency circuit. In this paper, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is investigated over Rayleigh fading channel conditions. EH NOMA improves the power efficiency, and it results in better throughput as compared to conventional NOMA techniques. In this paper, we investigate the achievable data rate and the outage probability performance of the near user, also called the relay user (RU), and the far user (FU). It can clearly be shown that the RU data rate is saturated and at 1 bits/s/Hz will become constant, while the FU data rate increases with an increase in transmitted power. It is seen by analysis that the RU data rate would saturate due to EH. It is further shown that with a transmitted power of 18 dBm, the net output of the FUs is readily shown to be based around a value of 2.80 bits/s/Hz. In comparison, it is shown that the FU’s instantaneous information rate dropped below the target data rate.