Cooperative Energy Harvesting Networks with Spatially Random Users

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a cooperative energy harvesting network with randomly located users, modeling cooperation as a coalitional game, and provides analytical and simulation results on outage probability and coalition stability.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of outage probability considering spatial randomness and models user cooperation as a coalitional game with proven grand coalition stability.

Findings

Analytical expressions for outage probability considering user spatial distribution

Coalitional game model demonstrating stable grand coalition formation

Simulation results validating analytical accuracy

Abstract

This paper considers a cooperative network with multiple source-destination pairs and one energy harvesting relay. The outage probability experienced by users in this network is characterized by taking the spatial randomness of user locations into consideration. In addition, the cooperation among users is modeled as a canonical coalitional game and the grand coalition is shown to be stable in the addressed scenario. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of the developed analytical results.