D2D communication with energy harvesting relays for disaster management

In this paper, we consider a multi-hop device-to-device (D2D) communication, which enables communication from functional area (FA), where the D2D users are placed near to base station (BS) under its coverage to non-functional area (NFA). In our proposed model, random deployment as well as certain distance-dependent deployment of D2D node is considered in NFA. In case of FA, BS is transmitting information with fixed transmit power in multi-hop D2D network. In case of NFA, a D2D node harvests energy from its preceding node, and forwards the information to the successive node. Parallel best path selection (PBPS) and immediate best path selection (IBPS) strategies are considered for FA while several cases of deployment strategies based on inter-node distance is considered for NFA to reach the final destination node. A framework has been proposed for evaluating throughput, ergodic capacity and outage probability. Energy consumption in the system has been estimated via simulation. The throughput performance, ergodic capacity and the outage probability of end-to-end link (i.e. from BS to NFA) under different system parameters are evaluated.