Throughput optimization for backscatter-and-NOMA-enabled wireless powered cognitive radio network

Yuzhe Chen (), Yanjun Li (), Meihui Gao (), Xianzhong Tian () and Kaikai Chi ()
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Yuzhe Chen: Zhejiang University of Technoloy
Yanjun Li: Zhejiang University of Technoloy
Meihui Gao: Zhejiang University of Technoloy
Xianzhong Tian: Zhejiang University of Technoloy
Kaikai Chi: Zhejiang University of Technoloy

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, 2023, vol. 83, issue 2, No 3, 135-146

Abstract: Abstract In a typical wireless powered cognitive radio network, secondary transmitters (STs) perform energy harvesting when the channel is busy and perform active transmission using the harvested energy when the channel is idle. In order to further enhance the throughput of the network, we enable time-division-multiple-access-based backscatter communication (BackCom) when the channel is busy and non-orthogonal-multiple-access (NOMA)-based active transmission when the channel is idle. We aim to maximize the longterm average sum-throughput of all the STs by allocating each ST’s BackCom time, energy harvesting time and transmit power for the NOMA-based active transmission. With consideration of limited battery capacity and time-varying channel, we formulate the problem as a Markov decision process. Both Q-learning and deep Q-learning (DQL) algorithms are proposed to solve the problem to obtain fully online policies. Simulation results show that the proposed DQL algorithm not only efficiently deals with the dynamics of the environment but also improves the average throughput up to 27.5% compared with Q-learning and up to 4 times compared with random policy.

Keywords: Backscatter communication; Wireless powered cognitive radio network; Nonorthogonal multiple access; Throughput; Deep Q-learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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