A Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Cooperative Wireless Networks Powered by Energy Harvesting

A large wireless network with energy harvesting transmitters is considered, where a group of K transmitters form a cluster to cooperatively serve a desired user. Using stochastic geometry, simple closed-form expressions are derived to characterize the outage performance as a function of important parameters such as the energy harvesting rate, buffer size and cluster size for a given cluster geometry. The developed framework also allows the K in-cluster transmitters to have different energy harvesting capabilities. A comparison with simulation results reveals that the derived expressions closely model the signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio distribution at the receiver, particularly in the low-outage regime. Lastly, the developed framework is used to investigate the impact of different parameters such as cluster and buffer size on outage performance.