Buffer-aided relaying with mixed rate transmission

Zlatanov N, Schober R (2012)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2012

Pages Range: 13-18

Conference Proceedings Title: IWCMC 2012 - 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

Event location: Limassol CY

ISBN: 9781457713781

DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC.2012.6314170

Abstract

We investigate a simple three-node network consisting of a source, a half-duplex decode-and-forward relay with a buffer, and a destination. We assume that a direct source-destination link is not available and all links undergo fading. We consider the case where the source has no channel state information (CSI) and thus is forced to transmit with a fixed rate. On the other hand, the relay has full CSI and thus is able to adapt its rate to the underlaying channel. We propose a buffer-aided relaying protocol which allows the relay to choose its transmission and reception time slots adaptively and based on the quality of the source-relay and relay-destination links. For this system, we derive the maximum achievable throughput and the fraction of throughput lost due to outages. Our results reveal that compared to the conventional case when the relay always alternates between reception and transmission, a throughput gain of up to 100% is possible. © 2012 IEEE.

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APA:

Zlatanov, N., & Schober, R. (2012). Buffer-aided relaying with mixed rate transmission. In IWCMC 2012 - 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (pp. 13-18). Limassol, CY.

MLA:

Zlatanov, Nikola, and Robert Schober. "Buffer-aided relaying with mixed rate transmission." Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2012, Limassol 2012. 13-18.

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