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Graduates Relays in information theory
Sitemap Relays that receive and retransmit the signals between base stations and
Basic coverage
mobiles can be used to increase throughput extend information theory on relays results
of cellular
date
networks. Infrastucture relays do not need wired back to 1970s.
connection The capacity of the
to network
thereby offering savings in operators’ backhaulsetup
costs.below,
Mobilewhere
relaysthe
candestination
be is able to
hear both source
used to build local area networks between mobile users under the and relay remains
umbrella of the wide area cellular networks. unsolved in general case. Several upper and
lower bounds have been presented for the
general case, and capacity has been solved
in some special cases, e.g. on degraded
relay channel.

In recent years cooperative relay techniques

have received a lot of interest.. A typical link-
level setup is depicted below, in which a
group of relays help the communication
Amplify-and-forward (AF) relays retransmit between source and destination. The relays
the signal without decoding while decode– can then use a space-time code or the most
and-forward (DF) relays decode the reliable relay can be chosen to transmit the
received signal, encode the signal again, signal while the other relays suspend
and transmit. Furthermore, relays can transmission.
operate in half-duplex mode, i.e. they do not
transmit and receive simultaneously in the
same band, or in full-duplex mode. The
latter operation requires a spatial separation
between transmit and receive antennas to
reduce loop-back interference from the
transmit antennas to the receive antennas

From signal processing point of view AF

relays offer interesting challenges,
especially when the AF relay operates in
full-duplex mode: Adaptive algorithms are
required for loop-back interference
cancellation. Furthermore, the effect of
interference must be incorporated into
analytical performance studies. Spectral
shaping of the transmitted signal requires
advanced techniques for digital filter design. Practical issues of cooperative schemes like
The research benchmarks AF relays with signaling between relays and different
DF relays taking into account the propagation delays due to different locations
aforementioned issues. We cooperate with of relays are often overlooked. If the
High-frequency and microwave engineering difference in time of arrival between the
group to gain understanding of the actual direct path from source to destination and
propagation environment and loop-back the paths source-relay-destination is
interference with full-duplex relays constrained then relays must locate inside
the ellipsoid as depicted below. Thus, in

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practice, such a cooperative system shoiuld

be a narrow band one, or guard interval
Full-duplex infrastucture relays between transmitted symbols should be
used to avoid intersymbol interference due
to relays.
Since full-duplex relays require transmit
and receive antennas that are spatially
separated, such relays are more suitable
as infrastructure usage.

Subchannel assignment

When introducing relaying to a cellular

system it is necessary to specify which
functionalities and protocols should be
included in the RN, and whether RNs
should operate at the physical, link, or
network layer. . An AF relay inherently
operate on the physical layer, while
functionalities in a DF relay fall into data
link or higher layers. Thereby, the variety of
functionalities to design DF relaying
protocols is wide. In case of OFDMA,
subchannel assignment presented below is
one possible functionality in relay that can
be used to improve system performance.

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