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On the Benefits of Network-Level Cooperation in Millimeter-Wave Communications
Relaying techniques for millimeter-wave wireless networks represent a
powerful solution for improving the transmission performance. In this work, we
quantify the benefits in terms of delay and throughput for a random-access
multi-user millimeter-wave wireless network, assisted by a full-duplex network
cooperative relay. The relay is equipped with a queue for which we analyze the
performance characteristics (e.g., arrival rate, service rate, average size,
and stability condition). Moreover, we study two possible transmission schemes:
fully directional and broadcast. In the former, the source nodes transmit a
packet either to the relay or to the destination by using narrow beams,
whereas, in the latter, the nodes transmit to both the destination and the
relay in the same timeslot by using a wider beam, but with lower beamforming
gain. In our analysis, we also take into account the beam alignment phase that
occurs every time a transmitter node changes the destination node. We show how
the beam alignment duration, as well as position and number of transmitting
nodes, significantly affect the network performance. Moreover, we illustrate
the optimal transmission scheme (i.e., broadcast or fully directional) for
several system parameters and show that a fully directional transmission is not
always beneficial, but, in some scenarios, broadcasting and relaying can
improve the performance in terms of throughput and delay.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1804.0945
Relay-assisted Multiple Access with Full-duplex Multi-Packet Reception
The effect of full-duplex cooperative relaying in a random access multiuser
network is investigated here. First, we model the self-interference incurred
due to full-duplex operation, assuming multi-packet reception capabilities for
both the relay and the destination node. Traffic at the source nodes is
considered saturated and the cooperative relay, which does not have packets of
its own, stores a source packet that it receives successfully in its queue when
the transmission to the destination has failed. We obtain analytical
expressions for key performance metrics at the relay, such as arrival and
service rates, stability conditions, and average queue length, as functions of
the transmission probabilities, the self interference coefficient, and the
links' outage probabilities. Furthermore, we study the impact of the relay node
and the self-interference coefficient on the per-user and aggregate throughput,
and the average delay per packet. We show that perfect self-interference
cancelation plays a crucial role when the SINR threshold is small, since it may
result to worse performance in throughput and delay comparing with the
half-duplex case. This is because perfect self-interference cancelation can
cause an unstable queue at the relay under some conditions.Comment: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
Network-Level Performance Evaluation of a Two-Relay Cooperative Random Access Wireless System
In wireless networks relay nodes can be used to assist the users'
transmissions to reach their destination. Work on relay cooperation, from a
physical layer perspective, has up to now yielded well-known results. This
paper takes a different stance focusing on network-level cooperation. Extending
previous results for a single relay, we investigate here the benefits from the
deployment of a second one. We assume that the two relays do not generate
packets of their own and the system employs random access to the medium; we
further consider slotted time and that the users have saturated queues. We
obtain analytical expressions for the arrival and service rates of the queues
of the two relays and the stability conditions. We investigate a model of the
system, in which the users are divided into clusters, each being served by one
relay, and show its advantages in terms of aggregate and throughput per user.
We quantify the above, analytically for the case of the collision channel and
through simulations for the case of Multi-Packet Reception (MPR), and we
provide insight on when the deployment of a second relay in the system can
yield significant advantages.Comment: Submitted for journal publicatio
Energy-Efficient Cooperative Cognitive Relaying Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks
We investigate a cognitive radio network in which a primary user (PU) may
cooperate with a cognitive radio user (i.e., a secondary user (SU)) for
transmissions of its data packets. The PU is assumed to be a buffered node
operating in a time-slotted fashion where the time is partitioned into
equal-length slots. We develop two schemes which involve cooperation between
primary and secondary users. To satisfy certain quality of service (QoS)
requirements, users share time slot duration and channel frequency bandwidth.
Moreover, the SU may leverage the primary feedback message to further increase
both its data rate and satisfy the PU QoS requirements. The proposed
cooperative schemes are designed such that the SU data rate is maximized under
the constraint that the PU average queueing delay is maintained less than the
average queueing delay in case of non-cooperative PU. In addition, the proposed
schemes guarantee the stability of the PU queue and maintain the average energy
emitted by the SU below a certain value. The proposed schemes also provide more
robust and potentially continuous service for SUs compared to the conventional
practice in cognitive networks where SUs transmit in the spectrum holes and
silence sessions of the PUs. We include primary source burstiness, sensing
errors, and feedback decoding errors to the analysis of our proposed
cooperative schemes. The optimization problems are solved offline and require a
simple 2-dimensional grid-based search over the optimization variables.
Numerical results show the beneficial gains of the cooperative schemes in terms
of SU data rate and PU throughput, average PU queueing delay, and average PU
energy savings
Energy-aware cooperative wireless networks with multiple cognitive users
In this paper, we study and analyze cooperative cognitive radio networks with arbitrary number of secondary users (SUs). Each SU is considered a prospective relay for the primary user (PU) besides having its own data transmission demand. We consider a multi-packet transmission framework that allows multiple SUs to transmit simultaneously because of dirty-paper coding. We propose power allocation and scheduling policies that optimize the throughput for both PU and SU with minimum energy expenditure. The performance of the system is evaluated in terms of throughput and delay under different opportunistic relay selection policies. Toward this objective, we present a mathematical framework for deriving stability conditions for all queues in the system. Consequently, the throughput of both primary and secondary links is quantified. Furthermore, a moment generating function approach is employed to derive a closed-form expression for the average delay encountered by the PU packets. Results reveal that we achieve better performance in terms of throughput and delay at lower energy cost as compared with equal power allocation schemes proposed earlier in the literature. Extensive simulations are conducted to validate our theoretical findings
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