Full-Duplex OFDM Relaying Systems with Energy Harvesting in Multipath Fading Channels

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of in-band full- duplex OFDM relaying systems with energy- harvesting and self-interference cancellation in the polarization domain is analyzed. Specifically, we use the time switching-based relaying protocol to implement energy harvesting. The harvested energy is used by the relay to forward the transmitted information from the source. To cancel the self-interference, the polarization-enabled digital self-interference cancellation scheme is deployed at the relay. Our simulation results show that the full-duplex OFDM energy harvesting relaying system almost doubles the throughput, while maintaining the same bit error performance by a modest increase in the signal-to-noise ratio compared to the half-duplex OFDM energy harvesting relaying system. It is also revealed that the optimal time splitting factor should be less than 0.3 to maximize the full-duplex system throughput.