Throughput of two-hop wireless networks with relay cooperation

Bo Niu, Alexander M. Haimovich, Oren Somekh

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the throughput problem of a wireless fading network with two-hop relaying, where n single antenna source-destination pairs communicate through a set of single antenna relays using amplify-and-forward strategy Two different cooperation schemes at the relay nodes are considered, where the relays share either channel state information (CSI) or both CSI and received signals. The high level of cooperation is justified for a case where the relaying role is fulfilled by infrastructure nodes that can communicate through a wired backbone without an overhead on the wireless channel. We show that in the first case, at least n2 relays are needed to achieve linear scaling of the system throughput versus n. In the second case, exchanging the received signals at the relays can reduce the needed number of relays to n in order to achieve linear scaling. It is also shown that the second cooperation scheme achieves a strictly positive per node throughput, where the total number of nodes accounted for includes the relays.

Original languageAmerican English
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
Pages206-211
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781605600864
StatePublished - 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

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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