96 research outputs found
Cooperative Relay Broadcast Channels
The capacity regions are investigated for two relay broadcast channels
(RBCs), where relay links are incorporated into standard two-user broadcast
channels to support user cooperation. In the first channel, the Partially
Cooperative Relay Broadcast Channel, only one user in the system can act as a
relay and transmit to the other user through a relay link. An achievable rate
region is derived based on the relay using the decode-and-forward scheme. An
outer bound on the capacity region is derived and is shown to be tighter than
the cut-set bound. For the special case where the Partially Cooperative RBC is
degraded, the achievable rate region is shown to be tight and provides the
capacity region. Gaussian Partially Cooperative RBCs and Partially Cooperative
RBCs with feedback are further studied. In the second channel model being
studied in the paper, the Fully Cooperative Relay Broadcast Channel, both users
can act as relay nodes and transmit to each other through relay links. This is
a more general model than the Partially Cooperative RBC. All the results for
Partially Cooperative RBCs are correspondingly generalized to the Fully
Cooperative RBCs. It is further shown that the AWGN Fully Cooperative RBC has a
larger achievable rate region than the AWGN Partially Cooperative RBC. The
results illustrate that relaying and user cooperation are powerful techniques
in improving the capacity of broadcast channels.Comment: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 200
State-Dependent Relay Channel with Private Messages with Partial Causal and Non-Causal Channel State Information
In this paper, we introduce a discrete memoryless State-Dependent Relay
Channel with Private Messages (SD-RCPM) as a generalization of the
state-dependent relay channel. We investigate two main cases: SD-RCPM with
non-causal Channel State Information (CSI), and SD-RCPM with causal CSI. In
each case, it is assumed that partial CSI is available at the source and relay.
For non-causal case, we establish an achievable rate region using
Gel'fand-Pinsker type coding scheme at the nodes informed of CSI, and
Compress-and-Forward (CF) scheme at the relay. Using Shannon's strategy and CF
scheme, an achievable rate region for causal case is obtained. As an example,
the Gaussian version of SD-RCPM is considered, and an achievable rate region
for Gaussian SD-RCPM with non-causal perfect CSI only at the source, is
derived. Providing numerical examples, we illustrate the comparison between
achievable rate regions derived using CF and Decode-and-Forward (DF) schemes.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, to be presented at the IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010), Austin, Texas, June 201
Gaussian Broadcast Channels with an Orthogonal and Bidirectional Cooperation Link
This paper considers a system where one transmitter broadcasts a single
common message to two receivers linked by a bidirectional cooperation channel,
which is assumed to be orthogonal to the downlink channel. Assuming a
simplified setup where, in particular, scalar relaying protocols are used and
channel coding is not exploited, we want to provide elements of response to
several questions of practical interest. Here are the main underlying issues:
1. The way of recombining the signals at the receivers; 2. The optimal number
of cooperation rounds; 3. The way of cooperating (symmetrically or
asymmetrically; which receiver should start cooperating in the latter case); 4.
The influence of spectral resources. These issues are considered by studying
the performance of the assumed system through analytical results when they are
derivable and through simulation results. For the particular choices we made,
the results sometimes do not coincide with those available for the discrete
counterpart of the studied channel
Secrecy in the 2-User Symmetric Deterministic Interference Channel with Transmitter Cooperation
This work presents novel achievable schemes for the 2-user symmetric linear
deterministic interference channel with limited-rate transmitter cooperation
and perfect secrecy constraints at the receivers. The proposed achievable
scheme consists of a combination of interference cancelation, relaying of the
other user's data bits, time sharing, and transmission of random bits,
depending on the rate of the cooperative link and the relative strengths of the
signal and the interference. The results show, for example, that the proposed
scheme achieves the same rate as the capacity without the secrecy constraints,
in the initial part of the weak interference regime. Also, sharing random bits
through the cooperative link can achieve a higher secrecy rate compared to
sharing data bits, in the very high interference regime. The results highlight
the importance of limited transmitter cooperation in facilitating secure
communications over 2-user interference channels.Comment: 5 pages, submitted to SPAWC 201
Cooperative Multi-Cell Networks: Impact of Limited-Capacity Backhaul and Inter-Users Links
Cooperative technology is expected to have a great impact on the performance
of cellular or, more generally, infrastructure networks. Both multicell
processing (cooperation among base stations) and relaying (cooperation at the
user level) are currently being investigated. In this presentation, recent
results regarding the performance of multicell processing and user cooperation
under the assumption of limited-capacity interbase station and inter-user
links, respectively, are reviewed. The survey focuses on related results
derived for non-fading uplink and downlink channels of simple cellular system
models. The analytical treatment, facilitated by these simple setups, enhances
the insight into the limitations imposed by limited-capacity constraints on the
gains achievable by cooperative techniques
Capacity of a Class of Broadcast Relay Channels
Consider the broadcast relay channel (BRC) which consists of a source sending
information over a two user broadcast
channel in presence of two relay nodes that help the transmission to the
destinations. Clearly, this network with
five nodes involves all the problems encountered in relay and broadcast
channels. New inner bounds on the capacity
region of this class of channels are derived. These results can be seen as a
generalization and hence unification of
previous work in this topic. Our bounds are based on the idea of
recombination of message bits and various effective
coding strategies for relay and broadcast channels. Capacity result is
obtained for the semi-degraded BRC-CR, where
one relay channel is degraded while the other one is reversely degraded. An
inner and upper bound is also presented
for the degraded BRC with common relay (BRC-CR), where both the relay and
broadcast channel are degraded which is
the capacity for the Gaussian case. Application of these results arise in the
context of opportunistic cooperation
of cellular networks.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in proc. IEEE ISIT, June 201
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