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Analysis of a Cooperative Strategy for a Large Decentralized Wireless Network
This paper investigates the benefits of cooperation and proposes a relay
activation strategy for a large wireless network with multiple transmitters. In
this framework, some nodes cooperate with a nearby node that acts as a relay,
using the decode-and-forward protocol, and others use direct transmission. The
network is modeled as an independently marked Poisson point process and the
source nodes may choose their relays from the set of inactive nodes. Although
cooperation can potentially lead to significant improvements in the performance
of a communication pair, relaying causes additional interference in the
network, increasing the average noise that other nodes see. We investigate how
source nodes should balance cooperation vs. interference to obtain reliable
transmissions, and for this purpose we study and optimize a relay activation
strategy with respect to the outage probability. Surprisingly, in the high
reliability regime, the optimized strategy consists on the activation of all
the relays or none at all, depending on network parameters. We provide a simple
closed-form expression that indicates when the relays should be active, and we
introduce closed form expressions that quantify the performance gains of this
scheme with respect to a network that only uses direct transmission.Comment: Updated version. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Networkin
Beamforming Optimization for Full-Duplex Wireless-powered MIMO Systems
We propose techniques for optimizing transmit beamforming in a full-duplex
multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless-powered communication system,
which consists of two phases. In the first phase, the wireless-powered mobile
station (MS) harvests energy using signals from the base station (BS), whereas
in the second phase, both MS and BS communicate to each other in a full-duplex
mode. When complete instantaneous channel state information (CSI) is available,
the BS beamformer and the time-splitting (TS) parameter of energy harvesting
are jointly optimized in order to obtain the BS-MS rate region. The joint
optimization problem is non-convex, however, a computationally efficient
optimum technique, based upon semidefinite relaxation and line-search, is
proposed to solve the problem. A sub-optimum zero-forcing approach is also
proposed, in which a closed-form solution of TS parameter is obtained. When
only second-order statistics of transmit CSI is available, we propose to
maximize the ergodic information rate at the MS, while maintaining the outage
probability at the BS below a certain threshold. An upper bound for the outage
probability is also derived and an approximate convex optimization framework is
proposed for efficiently solving the underlying non-convex problem. Simulations
demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods over the sub-optimum and
half-duplex ones.Comment: 14 pages, accepte
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