We show that the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of a half-duplex single-relay channel with identically distributed Rayleigh fading channel gains meets the 2 by 1 MISO bound. We generalize the result to the case when there are N non-interfering relays and show that the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff is equal to the N + 1 by 1 MISO bound.
A hybrid-duplex aeronautical communication system (HBD-ACS) consisting of a full-duplex (FD) enabled ground station (GS), and two half-duplex (HD) air-stations (ASs) is proposed as a direct solution to the spectrum crunch faced by the aviation industry. Closed-form outage probability and finite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) diversity gain expressions in aeronautical communications over Rician fading channels are derived for a successive interference cancellation (SIC) detector. Similar expressions are also presented for an interference ignorant (II) detector and HD-equivalent modes at GS and ASs. Through outage and finite SNR diversity gain analysis conducted at the nodes, and system level, residual SI and inter-AS interference are found to be the primary limiting factors in the proposed HBD-ACS. Additional analysis also revealed that the II and SIC detectors in the proposed HBD-ACS are suitable for weak and strong interference scenarios, respectively. When compared to HD-ACS, the proposed HBD-ACS achieves lower outage probability and higher diversity gains at higher multiplexing gains when operating at low SNRs. Finite SNR analysis also showed the possibility of the proposed HBD-ACS being able to attain interference-free diversity gains through proper management of residual SI. Hence, the proposed HBD-ACS is more reliable and can provide better throughput compared to existing HD-ACS at low-to-moderate SNRs.
The hybrid half-duplex/full-duplex (HD/FD) relaying scheme is an effective paradigm to overcome the negative effects of the self-interference incurred by the full-duplex (FD) mode. However, traditional hybrid HD/FD scheme does not consider the diversity gain incurred by the multiple antennas of the FD node when the system works in the HD mode, leading to the waste of the system resources. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid HD/FD relaying scheme, which utilizes both the antennas of the FD relay node for reception and transmission when the system works in the HD mode. With multiple antennas, the maximum ratio combining/maximum ratio transmission is adopted to process the signals at the relay node. Based on this scheme, we derive the exact closed-form system outage probability and conduct various numerical simulations. The results show that the proposed scheme remarkably improves the system outage performance over the traditional scheme, and demonstrate that the proposed scheme can more effectively alleviate the adverse effects of the residual self-interference.
Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources and channels. Then the Gaussian relay channel where the source and the side information are jointly Gaussian is analyzed. For this Gaussian model, several new source-channel cooperation schemes are introduced and analyzed in terms of the squared-error distortion at the destination. A comparison of the proposed upper bounds with the cut-set lower bound is given, and it is seen that joint source-channel cooperation improves the reconstruction quality significantly. Moreover, the performance of the joint code is close to the lower bound on distortion for a wide range of source and channel parameters.
The relay broadcast channel (RBC) is considered, in which a transmitter communicates with two receivers with the assistance of a relay. Based on different degradation orders among the relay and the receivers outputs, three types of physically degraded RBCs (PDRBCs) are introduced. Inner bounds and outer bounds are derived on the capacity region of the presented three types. The bounds are tight for two types of PDRBCs: 1) one receivers output is a degraded form of the other receivers output, and the relays output is a degraded form of the weaker receivers output; 2) one receivers output is a degraded form of the relays output, and the other receivers output is a degraded form of the relays output. For the Gaussian PDRBC, the bounds match, i.e., establish its capacity region.
This paper proposes a virtual harvest-transmit model and a harvest-transmit-store model for amplify-and-forward full-duplex relay (FDR) networks with power splitting-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. The relay node employs a battery group consisting of two rechargeable batteries. By switching periodically between two batteries for charging and discharging in two consecutive time slots of each transmission block, all the harvested energy in each block has been applied for full duplex transmission in the virtual harvest-transmit model. By employing energy scheduling, the relay node switches among the harvesting, relaying, harvesting-relaying, and idle behaviors at a block level, so that a part of the harvested energy in a block can be scheduled for future usage in the harvest-transmit-store model. A greedy switching policy is designed to implement the harvest-transmit-store model, where the FDR node transmits when its residual energy ensures decoding at the destination. Numerical results verify the outage performance of the proposed schemes.