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Performance evaluation of multi-hop relaying over non-Gaussian PLC channels

  • Khaled M. Rabie
  • , Bamidele Adebisi
  • , Haris Gacanin
  • , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev
  • , Augustine Ikpehai

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Abstract

Relaying over power line communication (PLC) channels can considerably enhance the performance and reliability of PLC systems. This paper is dedicated to study and analyze the energy efficiency of multi-hop cooperative relaying PLC systems. Incremental decode-and-forward (IDF) relying is exploited to reduce the transmit power consumption. The PLC channel is assumed to experience log-normal fading with impulsive noise. The performances of single-hop and conventional DF relaying systems are also analyzed in terms of outage probability and energy efficiency for which analytical expressions are derived. Results show that using more relays can improve the outage probability performance; however, this is achieved at the expense of increased power consumption due to the increased static power of the relays, especially when the total source-to-destination distance is relatively small. Results also demonstrate that the IDF PLC system has better energy efficiency performance compared to the other schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8120251
Pages (from-to)531-538
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Communications and Networks
Volume19
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • Decode-and-forward (DF)
  • energy efficiency
  • impulsivenoise
  • incremental DF
  • log-normal fading
  • multi-hop relaying
  • outage probability
  • power line communication (PLC)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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