Achievable Rates for the Fading Half-Duplex Single Relay Selection Network Using Buffer-Aided Relaying

Zlatanov N, Jamali Kooshkghazi V, Schober R (2015)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Book Volume: 14

Pages Range: 4494 - 4507

Journal Issue: 8

DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2421912

Abstract

In the half-duplex single relay selection network, comprised of a source, M half-duplex relays, and a destination, only one relay is active at any given time, i.e., only one relay receives or transmits, and the other relays are inactive, i.e., they do not receive nor transmit. The capacity of this network, when all links are affected by independent slow time-continuous fading and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) , is still unknown, and only achievable average rates have been reported in the literature so far. In this paper, we present new achievable average rates for this network, which are larger than the best known average rates. These new average rates are achieved with a buffer-aided relaying protocol. Since the developed buffer-aided protocol introduces unbounded delay, we also devise a buffer-aided protocol which limits the delay at the expense of a decrease in rate. Moreover, we discuss the practical implementation of the proposed buffer-aided relaying protocols and show that they do not require more resources for channel state information acquisition than the existing relay selection protocols.

Authors with CRIS profile

Vahid Jamali Kooshkghazi Lehrstuhl für Digitale Übertragung Robert Schober Lehrstuhl für Digitale Übertragung

Involved external institutions

Monash University

Australia (AU)

How to cite

APA:

Zlatanov, N., Jamali Kooshkghazi, V., & Schober, R. (2015). Achievable Rates for the Fading Half-Duplex Single Relay Selection Network Using Buffer-Aided Relaying. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 14(8), 4494 - 4507. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2015.2421912

MLA:

Zlatanov, Nikola, Vahid Jamali Kooshkghazi, and Robert Schober. "Achievable Rates for the Fading Half-Duplex Single Relay Selection Network Using Buffer-Aided Relaying." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 14.8 (2015): 4494 - 4507.

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