New aspects arise when generalizing two-way relay network with one relay to two-way relay network with multiple relays. To study the essential features of the two-way multiple-relay network, we focus on the case of two relays in our work. The problem of how two terminals, equipped with multiple antennas, exchange messages with the help of two relays is studied. Five transmission strategies, nam...

Cooperative communication achieves diversity through spatially separated cooperating nodes, which are battery powered in most applications. Therefore the energy consumption must be minimized without compromising the quality of service. In this context, we present a novel energy allocation scheme for multiple relay nodes that results in efficient cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)...

In this paper, the capacity analysis of cooperative amplify-and-forward multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system is investigated. The paper presents a comparative view of varies proposed link scenarios to study the effect relay location and coverage on the system performance under different power allocation techniques. In the presented model, a modified realistic Spatial Channel Model...

This paper studies optimal power allocation to minimize symbol error rate (SER) of amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity networks. First, we analytically solve optimal power allocation problem to minimize SER for three different scenarios, namely, multi-branch single-relay, single-branch multi-relay and multi-branch multi-relay cooperative diversity networks, all subject to a given total re...

This article proposes and analyzes a distributed probabilistic selection protocol in which several nodes perform a random access competition on a shared slotted channel. Nodes that are better suited according to some metric are preferred in the random access and are thus selected with high likelihood. Analytical performance studies are made in terms of reliability, message complexity, and delay...

In this paper, we propose new cooperation protocols for coherent flat-fading channels consisting of two (half-duplex) partners and one cell site. In our work, we differentiate between the multiple access (up-link) and broadcast (downlink) channels. For the cooperative multiple access channel, we upper-bound the achievable diversityvs-multiplexing tradeoff by that of a point-to-point system with...

We explore a full-duplex technique in wireless communication particularly for relay networks. We consider the relay to operate in full-duplex, which occurs when transmission and reception are conducted in the same channel. We investigate potential benefits of full-duplex technique in relay networks, which uses multiple antennas for transmission and reception combined with the Amplify-Forward (A...

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward cooperative wireless network in which network nodes use multiple input multiple output (MIMO) spatial division multiplexing (SDM) to communicate with one another. We examine the problem of distributed cooperative relay selection and signal combining at the destination. First, we propose three distributed relay selection algorithms based on the m...