Cellular systems with non-regenerative relaying and cooperative base stations

Oren Somekh, Osvaldo Simeone, H. Vincent Poor, Shlomo Shamai

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Abstract

In this paper, the performance of cellular networks with joint multicell processing and dedicated relay terminals is investigated. It is assumed that each relay terminal is capable of full-duplex operation and receives the transmission of relay terminals in adjacent cells. Focusing on intra-cell time division multiple access and non-fading channels, a simplified relay-aided uplink cellular model is considered. Addressing the achievable per-cell sum-rate, two non-regenerative relaying schemes are considered. Interpreting the received signal at the base stations as the outcome of a two-dimensional linear time invariant system, the multicell processing rate of an amplify-and-forward scheme is derived and shown to decrease with the inter-relay interference level. A novel form of distributed compress-and-forward scheme with decoder side information is then proposed. The corresponding multicell processing rate, which is given as a solution of a simple fixed-point equation, reveals that the compress-and-forward scheme is able to completely eliminate the inter-relay interference, and it approaches a "cut-set-like" upper bound for strong relay terminal transmission power. The benefits of base-station cooperation via multicell processing over the conventional single site processing approach is also demonstrated for both protocols.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5494779
Pages (from-to)2654-2663
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume9
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2010

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

Keywords

  • Non-regenerative relaying
  • amplify and forward
  • compress and forward
  • multicell processing

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