Although extensively investigated, the capacity of the two-hop half-duplex (HD) relay channel is not fully understood. In particular, a capacity expression which can be evaluated straightforwardly is not available and an explicit coding scheme which achieves the capacity is not known either. In this paper, we derive a new expression for the capacity of the two-hop HD relay channel based on a si...

In this paper, we study the performance of dual hop relaying in which the best relay selected by partial relay selection will help the source-destination link to overcome the channel impairment. Specifically, closed-form expressions for outage probability, symbol error probability and achievable diversity gain are derived using the statistical characteristic of the signal-to-noise ratio. Numeri...

We consider the application of wireless network coding to a “butterfly” wireless network, comprising two sources and two destinations sharing a single relay. We obtain upper bounds on the end to end capacity of the network in terms of the codebook cardinalities, allowing the use of an extended rather than a minimal hierarchical mapping at the relay and assuming that partial complementary side i...

This paper presents an outage performance of multiple access relay channel (MARC) for decode-and-forward (DF) relay and amplify-and-forward (AF) relay selection. We consider the multiple-access relay channel with two source nodes, one relay node and one destination node. In MARC, multiple sources transmit to a common destination simultaneously with the assistance of a single relay. In a relayin...

This paper investigates the Diversity Multiplexing Tradeoff (DMT) of the generalized quantizeand-forward (GQF) relaying scheme over the slow fading half-duplex multiple-access relay channel (HD-MARC). The compress-and-forward (CF) scheme has been shown to achieve the optimal DMT when the channel state information (CSI) of the relay-destination link is available at the relay. However, having the...

Enabling cooperation among nodes of a wireless network can significantly reduce the required transmit power as well as the induced intra-network interference. Due to the practical half-duplexity constraint of the cooperating nodes, they are prohibited to simultaneously transmit and receive data at the same time-frequency resource. The purpose of this dissertation is to illustrate the value of c...

Manuscript Received 8-August-2012 and revised 5-October-2012 ISSN: 2322-3936 Accepted on 1November-2012 Abstract— This paper concerns two-hop communication over relayassisted Block fading channel. It is assumed there is not a direct link between the transmitter and the affiliated destination and the communication occurs in two hops through the use of a relay, where the amplify and forward (AF) ...

Cooperative diversity is a transmission technique where multiple users pool their resources to form a virtual antenna array that realizes spatial diversity gain in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we examine space-time signal design for a simple amplify-and-forward relay channel. We show that the code design criteria for the relay case consist of the traditional rank and determinant criter...

To simulate a new economical architecture for PEM fuel cell and investigate the effectiveness of the introduced structure on the performance, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code is used to solve the equations for a single domain of the cell namely: the flow field, the mass conservation, the energy conservation, the species transport, and the electric/ionic fields under the assumptions of st...

We consider a state-dependent full-duplex relay channel with the channel states available non-causally at only the source, i.e., neither at the relay nor at the destination. For the discrete memoryless (DM) case, we establish lower and upper bounds on the channel capacity. The lower bound is obtained by a coding scheme at the source that uses a Gel’fand-Pinsker like binning scheme at the source...