Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for Buffer-Aided Cooperative Relaying Systems

This paper explored cooperative relaying in the presence of energy constrained relays with data storage facility. The relays depend only on the source signal to harvest energy and forward signal to the destination. The relay is selected according to the instantaneous strength of the wireless link. The strongest link among all links on both sides i.e., source-relay and relay-destination links is selected for relay to receive or transmit data, respectively. Two protocols are used for energy harvesting and information transfer namely: "power splitting based relaying" and "time switching based relaying". We evaluate the outage probability performance of the presented scheme using Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that TSR performs better than PSR protocol.