TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyses of the Incomplete Low-Bit-Rate Hybrid PLC-Wireless Single-Relay Channel
AU - Fernandes, Victor
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
AU - Ribeiro, Moises V.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 11, 2017; revised December 24, 2017; accepted January 8, 2018. Date of publication January 15, 2018; date of current version April 10, 2018. This work was supported in part by CNPq, in part by CAPES, in part by FAPEMIG, in part by FINEP, in part by INERGE, and in part by Smarti9 Ltd. (Corresponding author: Victor Fernandes.) V. Fernandes is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-330, Brazil (e-mail: victor.fernandes@engenharia.ufjf.br).
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© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - This paper discusses the ergodic achievable data rate of the so-called incomplete hybrid power line-wireless single-relay channel (HSRC) model. Here, the term incomplete refers to the HSRC model, which jointly and in parallel uses power line and wireless single-relay channel (SRC) models, for low-bit-rate data transmission, without a data communication link or a node communication interface. In order to analyze the behavior of such kind of defective HSRC model under the relative location of the relay node in relation to the source and destination nodes, optimal power allocation is taken into account under a sum power constraint with an amplify-and-forward relaying protocol and maximal ratio combining applied at the relay node. Analytical and numerical results show that the incomplete HSRC model, which is a defective version of the HSRC model, can remarkably outperform power line and wireless SRCs for all considered positions of the relay node and the chosen cooperative protocols.
AB - This paper discusses the ergodic achievable data rate of the so-called incomplete hybrid power line-wireless single-relay channel (HSRC) model. Here, the term incomplete refers to the HSRC model, which jointly and in parallel uses power line and wireless single-relay channel (SRC) models, for low-bit-rate data transmission, without a data communication link or a node communication interface. In order to analyze the behavior of such kind of defective HSRC model under the relative location of the relay node in relation to the source and destination nodes, optimal power allocation is taken into account under a sum power constraint with an amplify-and-forward relaying protocol and maximal ratio combining applied at the relay node. Analytical and numerical results show that the incomplete HSRC model, which is a defective version of the HSRC model, can remarkably outperform power line and wireless SRCs for all considered positions of the relay node and the chosen cooperative protocols.
KW - Achievable data rate
KW - cooperative communication
KW - power line communication (PLC)
KW - wireless communication
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U2 - 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2794200
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2794200
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041637180
SN - 2327-4662
VL - 5
SP - 917
EP - 929
JO - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
JF - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IS - 2
ER -