Harvest-Then-Cooperate: Wireless-Powered Cooperative Communications
Harvest-Then-Cooperate: Wireless-Powered Cooperative Communications
In this paper, we consider a wireless-powered cooperative communication network consisting of one hybrid access-point (AP), one source, and one relay. In contrast to conventional cooperative networks, the source and relay in the considered network have no embedded energy supply. They need to rely on the energy harvested from the …