Abstract
Although extensively investigated, the capacity of the two-hop half-duplex (HD) relay channel is not fully understood. In particular, a capacity expression which can be evaluated straightforwardly is not available and an explicit coding scheme which achieves the capacity is not known either. In this paper, we derive a new expression for the capacity of the two-hop HD relay channel based on a simplified converse. Compared to previous results, this capacity expression can be easily evaluated. Moreover, we propose an explicit coding scheme which achieves the capacity. To achieve the capacity, the relay does not only send information to the destination by transmitting information-carrying symbols but also with the zero symbols resulting from the relay's silence during reception. As examples, we compute the capacities of the two-hop HD relay channel for the cases when the source-relay and relay-destination links are both binary-symmetric channels (BSCs) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, respectively, and numerically compare the capacities with the rates achieved by conventional relaying where the relay receives and transmits in a codeword-by-codeword fashion and switches between reception and transmission in a strictly alternating manner. Our numerical results show that the capacities of the two-hop HD relay channel for BSC and AWGN links are significantly larger than the rates achieved with conventional relaying.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015) |
| Editors | Ramesh Rao |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway NJ USA |
| Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Pages | 3956-3962 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479959525 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781479959518, 9781467395267 |
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| Publication status | Published - 23 Feb 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2015 - San Diego, United States of America Duration: 6 Dec 2015 → 10 Dec 2015 http://globecom2015.ieee-globecom.org/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7414714/proceeding (Proceedings) |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2015 |
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| Abbreviated title | IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 |
| Country | United States of America |
| City | San Diego |
| Period | 6/12/15 → 10/12/15 |
| Other | IEEE GLOBECOM is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), together with IEEE ICC. Each year the conference attracts about 3000 submitted scientific papers and dozens of proposals for industry events. A technical program committee of more than 1,500 experts provides more than 10,000 reviews, and from this a small fraction of the submitted papers are accepted for publication and presentation at the conference. The conference meets once a year in North America and attracts roughly 2000 leading scientists, researchers and industry practitioners from all around the world. IEEE GLOBECOM is therefore one of the most significant scientific events of the networking and communications community, a must-attend event for scientists, researchers and networking practitioners from industry and academia. |
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