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On the Performance of the Relay-ARQ Networks
This paper investigates the performance of relay networks in the presence of
hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) feedback and adaptive power allocation.
The throughput and the outage probability of different hybrid ARQ protocols are
studied for independent and spatially-correlated fading channels. The results
are obtained for the cases where there is a sum power constraint on the source
and the relay or when each of the source and the relay are power-limited
individually. With adaptive power allocation, the results demonstrate the
efficiency of relay-ARQ techniques in different conditions.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. 201
Green Communication via Power-optimized HARQ Protocols
Recently, efficient use of energy has become an essential research topic for
green communication. This paper studies the effect of optimal power controllers
on the performance of delay-sensitive communication setups utilizing hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ). The results are obtained for repetition time
diversity (RTD) and incremental redundancy (INR) HARQ protocols. In all cases,
the optimal power allocation, minimizing the outage-limited average
transmission power, is obtained under both continuous and bursting
communication models. Also, we investigate the system throughput in different
conditions. The results indicate that the power efficiency is increased
substantially, if adaptive power allocation is utilized. For instance, assume
Rayleigh-fading channel, a maximum of two (re)transmission rounds with rates
nats-per-channel-use and an outage probability constraint
. Then, compared to uniform power allocation, optimal power
allocation in RTD reduces the average power by 9 and 11 dB in the bursting and
continuous communication models, respectively. In INR, these values are
obtained to be 8 and 9 dB, respectively.Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
Joint Source-Channel Coding with Time-Varying Channel and Side-Information
Transmission of a Gaussian source over a time-varying Gaussian channel is
studied in the presence of time-varying correlated side information at the
receiver. A block fading model is considered for both the channel and the side
information, whose states are assumed to be known only at the receiver. The
optimality of separate source and channel coding in terms of average end-to-end
distortion is shown when the channel is static while the side information state
follows a discrete or a continuous and quasiconcave distribution. When both the
channel and side information states are time-varying, separate source and
channel coding is suboptimal in general. A partially informed encoder lower
bound is studied by providing the channel state information to the encoder.
Several achievable transmission schemes are proposed based on uncoded
transmission, separate source and channel coding, joint decoding as well as
hybrid digital-analog transmission. Uncoded transmission is shown to be optimal
for a class of continuous and quasiconcave side information state
distributions, while the channel gain may have an arbitrary distribution. To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first example in which the uncoded
transmission achieves the optimal performance thanks to the time-varying nature
of the states, while it is suboptimal in the static version of the same
problem. Then, the optimal \emph{distortion exponent}, that quantifies the
exponential decay rate of the expected distortion in the high SNR regime, is
characterized for Nakagami distributed channel and side information states, and
it is shown to be achieved by hybrid digital-analog and joint decoding schemes
in certain cases, illustrating the suboptimality of pure digital or analog
transmission in general.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
On the Outage Probability of the Full-Duplex Interference-Limited Relay Channel
In this paper, we study the performance, in terms of the asymptotic error
probability, of a user which communicates with a destination with the aid of a
full-duplex in-band relay. We consider that the network is
interference-limited, and interfering users are distributed as a Poisson point
process. In this case, the asymptotic error probability is upper bounded by the
outage probability (OP). We investigate the outage behavior for well-known
cooperative schemes, namely, decode-and-forward (DF) and compress-and-forward
(CF) considering fading and path loss. For DF we determine the exact OP and
develop upper bounds which are tight in typical operating conditions. Also, we
find the correlation coefficient between source and relay signals which
minimizes the OP when the density of interferers is small. For CF, the
achievable rates are determined by the spatial correlation of the
interferences, and a straightforward analysis isn't possible. To handle this
issue, we show the rate with correlated noises is at most one bit worse than
with uncorrelated noises, and thus find an upper bound on the performance of
CF. These results are useful to evaluate the performance and to optimize
relaying schemes in the context of full-duplex wireless networks.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figures. Final version. To appear in IEEE JSAC Special
Issue on Full-duplex Wireless Communications and Networks, 201
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