We consider a general multiple antenna network with multiple sources, multiple destinations and multiple relays in terms of the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT). We examine several subcases of this most general problem taking into account the processing capability of the relays (half-duplex or full-duplex), and the network geometry (clustered or non-clustered). We first study the multiple ...

Backbone wireless mesh networks have attracted much of attention due to their wide-range applications. The use of CSMA/CA based MAC protocols in mesh networks, however, leads to an inefficient resource utilization, and to high latency. Several alternative protocols including directional MAC, multichannel MAC only provide marginal improvement. Recently, a cross-layer design employing multiple an...

In this paper, a multi-hop (MH) decode-and-forward (DF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay network has been studied. To consider a more realistic scenario, Full-Duplex (FD) operation with Relay Self-Interference (RSI) is employed. Assuming that the MIMO channels are subject to Rayleigh fading, a simple and compact closed-form outage probability expression has been derived. The key assu...

We examine the extent to which Gaussian relay networks can be approximated by deterministic networks, and present two results, one negative and one positive. The gap between the capacities of a Gaussian relay network and a corresponding linear deterministic network can be unbounded. The key reasons are that the linear deterministic model fails to capture the phase of received signals, and there...

We consider a dual-hop single-relayed Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system containing a relay that enables a link among source and destination. For this system, we evaluate the bit error rate for three different combinations of spatial filtering at the source and relay. The goal of this work is to identify the best approach for a given system configuration and sig...

The research on distributed MIMO relay system has been attracting much attention. In this paper, a decode-and-forward scheme distributed MIMO relay system is examined. For upper bound of channel capacity, the distance between transceivers is optimized when the propagation loss is brought close to actuality. Additionally, the number of relay is optimized whether total antenna element is fixed or...

The paper focuses on the two-way relay channel (TWRC) and the multi-way wireless network with three terminals, where all three want to exchange or share data and have to do that with the help of a relay. This paper shows how it is possible to significantly decrease the number of time slots required to exchange messages between terminals in networks based on time-division multiple access (TDMA),...

This paper examines capacity scaling in dense wireless fading networks, where L single-antenna source-destination terminal pairs communicate concurrently through a common set of K single-antenna relay terminals using two-hop half-duplex relaying. In the perfectly synchronized case, assuming perfect channel state information (CSI) at the relays (coherent network), the network capacity is known t...

In a generic switching problem, a switching pattern consists of a one-to-one mapping from a set of inputs to a set of outputs (i.e., a permutation). We propose and investigate a wireless switching framework in which a multi-antenna relay is responsible for switching traffic among a set of N stations. We refer to such a relay as a MIMO switch. With beamforming and linear detection, the MIMO swit...