This manuscript investigates the system performance of hybrid wireless and power line communication networks for indoor Internet of Things applications. Differentiating itself from the existing literature, the performance of the direct link and dual-hop energy harvesting relay-aided links is analyzed under the condition of indoor fading modeled by log-normal distribution. Moreover, the manuscript presents the analytical expressions of the successful transmission probability of the deployed opportunistic decode-and-forward and amplify-and-forward relay selection scheme, and validates them with Monte Carlo simulations. Moreover, the impact of different system parameters on the successful transmission probability is revealed. For the considered hybrid system, in general, the opportunistic decode-and-forward relaying scheme outperforms the opportunistic amplify-and-forward relaying scheme. As importantly, increasing the source to relay distance and power splitting ratio over certain limits significantly deteriorates the system performance, indicated by the decrease in the successful transmission probability.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VSB Technical University of Ostrava 17 Listopadu 2172 15 708 00 Ostrava Czech Republic

Faculty of Engineering and Technology Thu Dau Mot University Binh Duong 750000 Vietnam

Faculty of Information Technology Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Binh Duong University Binh Duong 750000 Vietnam

Faculty of Technology Dong Nai Technology University Dong Nai 760000 Vietnam

The Saigon International University Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

Van Hien University Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

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