Outage Analysis in SWIPT Enabled Cooperative AF/DF Relay Assisted Two-Way Spectrum Sharing Communication

This paper reports a relative performance analysis of decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying in a multi-antenna cooperative cognitive radio network (CCRN) that supports device-to-device (D2D) communications using spectrum sharing technique in cellular network. The system model considers cellular system as primary users (PUs) while Internet of Things Devices (IoDs), involved in D2D communications, as secondary system. The devices access the licensed spectrum by means of the cooperation in two-way primary communications. Furthermore, IoDs are energized through energy harvesting (EH) of PU radio frequency (RF) signals, using simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) protocol. Closed form expressions of the outage probability for both cellular and D2D communications are derived and the impact of various design parameters for both AF and DF relaying techniques are studied. Based on the simulation results, it is found that the proposed spectrum sharing protocol outperforms by 209% and 49% for DF relaying and AF relaying schemes, respectively. It is also observed that DF relaying performs better in term of peak energy efficiency (EE) at low transmit power while AF relaying at high transmit power.