Song, X., Han, D., Shi, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-1200-8160 et al. (2 more authors) (2025) Energy efficiency maximization for a relay assisted parasitic symbiotic radio network. IET Communications, 19 (1). e70058. ISSN 1751-8628
Abstract
Relay-assisted symbiotic radio (SR) has been recently proposed to overcome the blocking of the direct link from the primary transmitter (PT) or backscatter node (BN) to the destination node (DN). However, the energy efficiency (EE), which is an important performance metric for SR networks, has been largely ignored in existing studies of the relay-assisted SR. To fill the gap, this work maximizes the EE of a relay-assisted parasitic SR network, which comprises a PT, a BN, a relay node (RN), and a DN. More specifically, we formulate a mixed-integer programming optimization problem that maximizes the system EE by jointly optimizing the transmit power of the PT, the power reflection coefficient of the BN, the transmit power and the power allocation ratio at the RN as well as the successive interference cancellation (SIC) decoding order at the DN. We decompose the formulated non-convex problem into two subproblems corresponding to the two different SIC decoding orders, respectively. For each subproblem, we convert its objective function from a fractional form into a subtractive form by using a Dinkelbach-based method, and then utilize the block coordinate descent (BCD) method to further decouple it into two subsubproblems that are proved to be convex. Based on the obtained solutions, we devise an iterative algorithm to solve each subproblem by solving its two subsubproblems alternately. The optimal solution to the subproblem with a higher system EE returns a near-optimal solution to the original problem. Simulation results demonstrate the rapid convergence of the proposed algorithms and validate the significant advantages of our proposed algorithms over the baseline schemes.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | energy harvesting; relays; resource allocation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2025 09:18 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2025 09:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1049/cmu2.70058 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:228623 |