  The impact of imperfect channel state (CSI) information in an energy
harvesting (EH) cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network,
consisting of a source, two users, and an EH relay is investigated in this
paper. The relay is not equipped with a fixed power source and acts as a
wireless powered node to help signal transmission to the users. Closed-form
expressions for the outage probability of both users are derived under
imperfect CSI for two different power allocation strategies namely fixed and
dynamic power allocation. Monte Carlo simulations are used to numerically
evaluate the effect of imperfect CSI. These results confirm the theoretical
outage analysis and show that NOMA can outperform orthogonal multiple access
even with imperfect CSI.
