Broadband analog network coding (ANC) has been recently introduced to further increase the network capacity by exploiting the broadcasting nature of the wireless channel. However, channel state information (CSI) knowledge is required for self-information removal and signal detection. Recently, a pilot-assisted channel estimation (PACE) scheme has been presented for broadband ANC; however, feedb...

A two-way relay-interference channel describes a system of four communicating transceivers with two interjacent parallel relays arranged in a bidirectional 2 × 2 × 2 relayinterference network. Two pairs of transceivers are each communicating bidirectionally with the aid of both relays. All transceivers and relays are assumed to operate in full-duplex mode. Since Interference Neutralization is k...

We present a coding paradigm that provides a new achievable rate for the primitive relay channel by combining compress-and-forward and decode-and-forward with a chaining construction. In the primitive relay channel model, the source broadcasts a message to the relay and to the destination; and the relay facilitates this communication by sending an additional message to the destination through a...

In this paper, we analyze the four-node relay wiretap channel, where the relay performs amplify-and-forward. There is no direct link between transmitter and receiver available. The transmitter has multiple antennas, which assist in securing the transmission over both phases. In case of full channel state information (CSI), the transmitter can apply information leakage neutralization in order to...

We investigate a scheduling scheme incorporating network coding and channel varying information for the twoway relay networks. Our scheduler aims at minimizing the time span needed to send all the data of each source of the network. We consider three channel models, time invariant channels, time varying channels with finite states and time varying Rayleigh fading channels. We formulate the prob...

This paper presents a new approach for the channel capacity calculation of a multi-relay multi-hop communication system. For the channel model based on Markov chains theory, the exact formula for the channel capacity, which is expressed as a function of packet error rate and number of relays, is derived. The expression of the overall packet error rate is derived in its closed form. The presente...

Driven by the fast-growing demand on wireless applications, cooperative relaying has recently received much attention. In this dissertation, cooperative relaying in MIMO systems and sensor networks is studied extensively, with focus on capacity bounds and scaling laws. The first thrust is on the capacity bounds of MIMO relay channels. First, a Gaussian MIMO relay channel model with fixed channe...

Extended Abstract: Cooperative communication is now widely known as a promising technique for realizing distributed spatial diversity in modern wireless networks. To achieve various performance advantages benefiting from user cooperation, knowledge of the system parameters at the relay and destination terminals is typically required. For example, to implement the distributed beamforming/precodi...

In this paper, we present a coding strategy for wireless relay networks, where we assume no channel knowledge. More precisely, the relays operate without knowing the channel that affected their received signal, and the receiver decodes knowing none of the channel paths. The coding scheme is inspired by noncoherent differential space-time coding, and is shown to yield a diversity linear in the n...

In this paper, we study the emergence of topological interference alignment and the characterizing features of a multi-user broadcast interference relay channel. We propose an alternative transmission strategy named the relay space-time interference alignment (R-STIA) technique, in which a K -user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel has massive antennas at the transmitter...