부산대학교 도서관

This letter studies the performance of power beacon (PB) assisted downlink cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with realistic non-linear energy harvesting (EH) model. This letter proposes an analytical methodology for improving performance at blocked user at the edge of network via an intermediate node (IN). IN deployed in the coverage area of the base station (BS), acts as decode-and-forward relay to perform cooperative transmission. IN assists the BS in communicating with the blocked Internet of Things (IoT) device after harvesting energy from PB mounted on the BS. IN employs NOMA to serve IoT devices with heterogeneous quality of service requirements in order to achieve higher spectral and energy efficiency. A practical non-linear EH model is employed at IN to power the cooperative transmission to the IoT devices. The performance of the proposed scheme is compared with the system employing orthogonal multiple access and it is shown that the proposed scheme attains improved performance in terms of outage probability, system throughput, and energy efficiency.