In this work, the end-to-end performance of an amplify-and-forward multi-antenna infrastructure-based relay (fixed relay) system over flat Rayleigh fading channel is investigated. New closed form expressions for the statistics of the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are presented and applied for studying the outage probability and the average bit error rate of the digital receivers. The res...

In this paper, we derive a new achievable rate region for the user cooperation channel, which exceeds the best known result for this channel [Wil83]. Since the user cooperation channel includes many other known channels as a special case, the new rate region provides an improved achievable rates for many of the special cases (discussed later). The most notable example is that of the Gaussian re...

This paper aims at investigating the superiority of power allocation strategies, based on calculus of variations in a point-to-point two-way relay-assisted channel incorporating the amplify and forward strategy. Single and multilayer coding strategies for two cases of having and not having the channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters are studied, respectively. Using the notion of cal...

The Multiple-access Relay Channel (MARC) has been considered as a promising technique in next generation wireless communication networks. In this work, we study a Network Coding based Multiaccess Relay Channel (NC-MARC) where a decode-and-forward relaying and a static XOR network coding are considered for the one-way relaying system. The system consists of two transmitters communicating with a ...

Relaying (1–3) has been considered as a paradigm for improving the quality of service (i.e., bit-error-rate, data rate and coverage) in wireless networks. In this work, we study a two-hop relay channel in which each node can have multiple antennas. It is well-known that utilizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) links can significantly improve the transmission rate (see e.g. (4; 5) and ref...

In this paper, we derive a capacity region for Gaussian fading multiple access degraded relay channel with partial channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters (CSIT) and perfect CSI at the receiver (CSIR). The achievable rate region obtained by Kramer-Wijngaarden is a special case of our region. Keywords-Gaussian fading channel; channel state information (CSI); discrete multiple access ...

This paper investigates the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the L-cluster, K-user MIMO multi-way relay channel, where users in each cluster wish to exchange messages within the cluster, and they can only communicate through the relay. A novel DoF upper bound is derived by providing users with carefully designed genie information. Achievable DoF is identified using signal space alignment and multipl...

We consider a relay channel for which the following assumptions are made : 1. The source-destination and relay-destination channels are orthogonal (frequency division relay channel) ; 2. The relay implements the decode-and-forward protocol ; 3. The source and relay implement the same channel encoder namely a convolutional encoder ; 4. They can use arbitrary and possibly different modulations. I...

In this paper, we consider two-way orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) relay channels, where the direct link between the two terminal nodes is too weak to be used for data transmission. The widely known per-subcarrier decode-and-forward (DF) relay strategy, treats each subcarrier as a separate channel, and performs independent channel coding over each subcarrier. We show that this...

Wireless relay networks have been studied extensively in the recent literature. Amplify and forward (AF) is one of the most widely used type of relaying. Even though special cases such as channel-noise-assisted, channel-assisted and blind relay modes have been analyzed, a unified performance analysis seems to be not available. In this paper, we present unified performance analysis results for t...