The Scheme of Power Allocation for Decode-and-Forward Relay Channel in Energy Harvesting WSNs

Recently, the issue of excessive energy consumption in wireless communications has become increasing critical, and the energy harvesting as a renewable energy resource, has received extensive attractions. In this paper, a wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered, where the source-destination pair communicates via an energy harvesting relay links. We study the problem of the harvested energy distribution among the source, relay and destination nodes. An effective power allocation scheme is developed which exploits the decode-and-forward (DF) relaying strategy and channel state information. The outage probability is analyzed and simulation results show that the outage performance for two sub-channels is always performs well in the cases of different threshold target data rate. Moreover, the effect of the different radio of the optimal subchannel gain and Rayleigh channel gain on the outage performance is evaluated.