Hybrid Active-and-Passive Relaying model for SWIPT-enabled 6G-IoT Greencom Networks

In order to support a massive number of resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices and machine-type devices, it is crucial to design future beyond 5G/6G wireless networks in an energy-efficient manner while incorporating the network extension methodologies. To this end, this letter proposes a novel two-hop hybrid active-and-passive relaying scheme to facilitate simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) considering both the Time-Switching (TS) and Power-Splitting (PS) receiver architectures, while dynamically modelling the involved dual-hop time-period (TP) metric. An optimization problem is formulated for the joint optimization of throughput, harvested energy, and transmit power of a SWIPT-enabled system

with the proposed hybrid scheme, and is solved using a nonlinear optimizer. Our numerical results in terms of weighted utility function show the superior performance of proposed hybrid scheme over passive repeater-only and active relay-only schemes, while also depicting their individual performance benefits over the corresponding benchmark SWIPT systems with the fixed-TP.