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Table 1 Comparison between the non-cooperative and cooperative WET and data transmission for each source-destination pair in a time block

From: Cooperative wireless energy harvesting and information transfer in stochastic networks

 

Non-cooperative

Cooperative

 

link

link

Which relay

No relay

Relay at a

is selected?

selection

particular location

Time fraction

Ï„

Ï„

for the WET

  

Wireless energy

Destination →source

Destination and

transfer

 

relay →source

Data transmission

\(\frac {1-\tau }{2}\)

\(\frac {1-\tau }{2}\)

duration

  

Data transmission

Source →destination

Source →destination

Data retransmission

\(\frac {1-\tau }{2}\)

\(\frac {1-\tau }{2}\)

duration

  

Data retransmission

Source →destination

Source or

  

relay →destination