To meet the requirements of high energy efficiency (EE) and large system capacity for the fifth-generation (5G) Internet of Things (IoT), the use of massive multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) technology has been launched in the massive IoT (mIoT) network, where a large number of devices are connected and scheduled simultaneously. This paper considers the energyefficient design of a multi-pair decode-and-forward relay-based IoT network, in which multiple sources simultaneously transmit their information to the corresponding destinations via a relay equipped with a large array. In order to obtain an accurate yet tractable expression of the EE, firstly, a closed-form expression of the EE is derived under an idealized simplifying assumption, in which the location of each device is known by the network. Then, an exact integral-based expression of the EE is derived under the assumption that the devices are randomly scattered following a uniform distribution and transmit power of the relay is equally shared among the destination devices. Furthermore, a simple yet efficient lower bound of the EE is obtained. Based on this, finally, a low-complexity energy-efficient resource allocation strategy of the mIoT network is proposed under the specific qualityof-service (QoS) constraint. The proposed strategy determines the near-optimal number of relay antennas, the near-optimal transmit power at the relay and near-optimal density of active mIoT device pairs in a given coverage area. Numerical results demonstrate the accuracy of the performance analysis and the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.Index Terms-Energy efficiency, resource allocation, massive MIMO, decode-and-forward relay, green mIoT.
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