NOMA-Enabled Dual-IRS Relay Network Integrated with Ambient Backscatter Communication

TL;DR

This paper presents an analysis of a NOMA-enabled dual-IRS relay network integrated with ambient backscatter communication, deriving performance metrics and exploring trade-offs for energy-efficient IoT network design.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dual-IRS relay system with ambient backscatter, providing analytical expressions for outage probability and throughput, and analyzes system parameter impacts.

Findings

Closed-form outage probability expressions derived

Throughput analysis under various system parameters conducted

Monte Carlo simulations validate analytical results

Abstract

This paper analyzes a NOMA-enabled dual-Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) relay network integrated with Ambient Backscatter (BS) communication. The system comprises a source, an energy-constrained relay with energy harvesting (EH) and BS capabilities, two NOMA users, and a BS node. The relay adopts a time-switching relaying (TSR) protocol to harvest energy and forward information ,while simultaneously enabling BS-based communication. Two IRS are deployed to enhance the S to R and R to (D1, D2) links under blockage conditions. Closed-form expressions for the Outage Probability (OP) and Throughput of both the main communication links and the BS-assisted secondary links are derived. Furthermore, throughput is analyzed under varying system parameters, including power allocation factors, reflection efficiency, IRS elements, and transmission rate. Monte Carlo simulations validate the analytical results. numerical findings reveal critical trade-offs between the main and RS links. The proposed framework provides useful insights for designing reliable and energy-efficient NOMA-IRS-aided BS networks for future IoT applications.