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Relay cooperative communication reduces the transmitting power at the far-end node but leads to extra energy expenditure at the relay node. Fortunately, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is advocated in energy-constrained IoT networks to save energy consumption. However, early works all focus on energy harvesting (EH) from one source node or one dedicated power supply station. In this paper, we propose a time switching based wireless powered relay transmission model with uplink NOMA where our EH technique can harvest energy from two simultaneously transmitting nodes. More importantly, by optimizing relay position more energy is harvested from the near-end node at the relay and relay signal attenuation to the destination is reduced as well. Furthermore, the closed-form expressions of outage probability and overall system throughput are derived, and numerical results prove that NOMA in our EH scheme achieves better performance compared to the traditional EH scheme and OMA by optimizing the position of the relay node, time switching factor and so on.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21165467","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,13]],"date-time":"2021-08-13T09:22:38Z","timestamp":1628846558000},"page":"5467","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Time Switching Based Wireless Powered Relay Transmission with Uplink NOMA"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zhihua","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa 999078, Macau, China"},{"name":"College of Electronic and Information Science, Fujian Jiangxia University, Fuzhou 350108, China"}]},{"given":"Shihua","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"QianJiang College, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6768-1483","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianqing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa 999078, Macau, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2846","DOI":"10.1109\/JSAC.2017.2726242","article-title":"Achievable rate region of non-orthogonal multiple access systems with wireless powered decoder","volume":"35","author":"Gong","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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