Outage Analysis of Energy Efficiency in a Finite-Element-IRS Aided Communication System

In this paper, we study the performance of an energy efficient wireless communication system, assisted by a finite-element-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). With no instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, we characterize the system performance in terms of the outage probability (OP) of energy efficiency (EE). Depending upon the availability of line-of-sight (LOS) paths, we analyze the system for two different channel models, viz. Rician and Rayleigh. For an arbitrary number of IRS elements $(N)$, we derive the approximate closed-form solutions for the OP of EE, using Laguerre series and moment matching methods. The analytical results are validated using the Monte-Carlo simulations. Moreover, we also quantify the rate of convergence of the derived expressions to the central limit theorem (CLT) approximations using the \textit{Berry-Esseen} inequality. Further, we prove that the OP of EE is a strict pseudo-convex function of the transmit power and hence, has a unique global minimum. To obtain the optimal transmit power, we solve the OP of EE as a constrained optimization problem. To the best of our knowledge, the OP of EE as a performance metric, has never been previously studied in IRS-assisted wireless communication systems.

Secure Energy Efficiency: Power Allocation and Outage Analysis for SWIPT-in-DAS based IoT

In this paper we study secure energy efficiency (SEE) for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a distributed antenna system (DAS) based IoT network. We consider a system in which both legitimate users (Bobs) and eavesdroppers (Eves) have power splitting (PS) receivers to simultaneously decode information and harvest energy from the received signal. When the channel state information (CSI) is known at the transmitter, we analyze the effect of an energy harvesting eavesdropper (EHE) over the maximization of SEE of the system. Next, considering the fact that perfect CSI is hard to achieve in practice, we characterize the system performance in terms of the outage probability of SEE. For the given SWIPT-in-DAS setup, we derive the closed form expression for the outage probability of SEE and with the help of numerical results, we study the effect of transmit power levels, number of distributed antenna (DA) ports and the PS ratio of devices. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to define the outage probability of SEE for SWIPT-in-DAS.