Time Power Switching Based Relaying Protocol in Energy Harvesting Mobile Node: Optimal Throughput Analysis

We propose a new protocol for energy harvesting at relay mobile node in wireless communications called energy harvesting cooperative networks (EHCN). In particular, we investigate how the harvested power at relay mobile node affects outage probability and throughput performance. Specifically, we develop outage and throughput performance characterizations in terms of time and power factors in the proposed time power switching based relaying (TPSR) protocol. A simple, highly accurate closed-form formula of outage probability is also derived. It is shown that the optimal throughput of the EHCN is critically dependent on time switching and power splitting factor of the TPSR protocol. In addition, we extend the proposed protocol performance in ideal case of receiver. The tightness of our proposed protocol is determined through Monte Carlo simulation results. Finally, our results provide useful guidelines for the design of the energy harvesting enabled relay mobile node in the EHCN.