Cooperative multiplexing in a half duplex relay network: Performance and constraints

Yijia Fan, H. Vincent Poor, John S. Thompson

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Abstract

Previous work on relay networks has concentrated primarily on the diversity benefits of such techniques. This paper explores the possibility of also obtaining multiplexing gain in a relay network, while retaining diversity gain. Specifically, consider a network in which a single source node is equipped with one antenna and a destination is equipped with two antennas. It is shown that, in certain scenarios, by adding a relay with two antennas and using a successive relaying protocol, the diversity multiplexing tradeoff performance of the network can be lower bounded by that of a 2 × 2 MIMO channel, when the decode-and-forward protocol is applied at the relay. A distributed D-BLAST architecture is developed, in which parallel channel coding is applied to achieve this tradeoff. A space-time coding strategy, which can bring a maximal multiplexing gain of more than one, is also derived for this scenario. As will be shown, while this space-time coding strategy exploits maximal diversity for a small multiplexing gain, the proposed successive relaying scheme offers a significant performance advantage for higher data rate transmission. In addition to the specific results shown here, these ideas open a new direction for exploiting the benefits of wireless relay networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
PublisherUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering
Pages375-380
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781605600864
StatePublished - Jan 1 2007
Event45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007 - Monticello, United States
Duration: Sep 26 2007Sep 28 2007

Publication series

Name45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
Volume1

Other

Other45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonticello
Period9/26/079/28/07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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