IMPACT OF NONLINEARITY ON RF ENERGY HARVESTER IN IOT RELAY SYSTEMS

Authors

  • Aleksandra Cvetković University of Niš, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Niš, Serbia
  • Vesna Blagojević University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering
  • Maša Milošević University of Niš, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Niš, Serbia
  • Jelena Manojlović University of Niš, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Niš, Serbia

Keywords:

IoT relaying system, Nonlinear harvester, Outage performance, RF Energy harvesting, Time switching protocol

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of the scenario where a relay node is used to enable communication between a source and an Internet of Things (IoT) edge node. The position of the relay is set to provide line-of-sight communication between the source and the relay node while communication in the relay-IoT edge link is still jeopardized by obstacles. As the relay node is energy limited, it is powered by RF energy from the source based on a time-switching protocol. Assuming that the energy harvester is a nonlinear device, the impact of nonlinearity, channel and system parameters on outage system performance is investigated and discussed.

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Published

2022-12-31

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2022)

Section

Articles