Optimal Time Allocation in Relay Assisted Backscatter Communication Systems

In this paper, we introduce a full-duplex backscatter-assisted wireless powered communication network (FDBA-WPCN) with a full-duplex access point (FAP) and multiple energy harvesting wireless devices (WDs). The communication mode is a combination of backscatter communication (BC) and harvest-then-transmit (HTT). The entire time period of network is divided into energy harvesting/backscattering (EHB) period and information transmission (IT) period. In the EHB period, each WD either reflects information to the FAP by backscatter or harvests energy to prepare for the IT period. In the IT period, the WDs use their harvested energy to transmit information to FAP in time division multiple access (TDMA). However, under the setting, WDs with different distances from FAP will encounter unfairness in throughput due to the round-trip path loss in backscatter and the doubly near-far problem in HTT. To overcome the drawback, an optimization problem is considered to maximize the sum throughput under the condition of ensuring throughput fairness. By using convex optimization techniques, we obtain the optimal time allocation and the maximum same throughput of each WD. Comparing to the other two benchmark schemes, the simulation results prove the superiority of our proposed method.

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Joint Position and Time Allocation Optimization of UAV-Aided Wireless Powered Relay Communication Systems

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2021/5537517 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Xiaofei Di ◽

Yang Chen

Keyword(s):

Energy Source ◽

Time Allocation ◽

Communication Systems ◽

Optimal Time ◽

Wireless Devices ◽

Optimal Position ◽

System A ◽

Relay Communication ◽

Aerial Vehicle ◽

The Internet Of Things

The Internet of things (IoT) has emerged as a platform for connecting massive physical devices to collect and analyze data for decision-making. Wireless devices in IoT are usually energy-constrained and thus need to be powered by a stable and reliable energy source in order to maintain a long network lifetime. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an energy source is a proper and applicable way to supply energy to wireless devices in IoT, due to its flexibility and potential of providing line-of-sight (LOS) links for wireless air-to-ground channels. In this paper, a UAV-aided wireless powered relay communication system is presented, where a UAV firstly emits energy to a source and a relay, and then, the source and relay cooperatively transmit information to their destination. To explore the performance limit of the system, a problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the position of the UAV and time allocation to maximize the achievable information rate of the system. By deriving the explicit expressions of the optimal position of UAV and optimal time fraction, the nonconvex optimization problem is efficiently solved. Simulation results show that our proposed method significantly outperforms the benchmark methods.

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