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Gaussian Half-Duplex Relay Networks: Improved Constant Gap and Connections with the Assignment Problem

Martina Cardone
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Raymond Knopp
Umer Salim
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Résumé

This paper considers a Gaussian relay network where a source transmits a message to a destination with the help of N half-duplex relays. The information theoretic cut-set upper bound to the capacity is shown to be achieved to within 1.96(N+2) bits by noisy network coding, thereby reducing the previously known gap. This gap is obtained as a special case of a more general constant gap result for Gaussian half-duplex multicast networks. It is then shown that the generalized Degrees-of-Freedom of this network is the solution of a linear program, where the coefficients of the linear inequality constraints are proved to be the solution of several linear programs referred as the assignment problem in graph theory, for which efficient numerical algorithms exist. The optimal schedule, that is, the optimal value of the 2N possible transmit-receive configuration states for the relays, is investigated and known results for diamond networks are extended to general relay networks. It is shown, for the case of N=2 relays, that only N+1=3 out of the 2^N=4 possible states have a strictly positive probability and suffice to characterize the capacity to within a constant gap. Extensive experimental results show that, for a general N-relay network with N<8, the optimal schedule has at most N+1 states with a strictly positive probability. As an extension of a conjecture presented for diamond networks, it is conjectured that this result holds for any HD relay network and any number of relays. Finally, a network with N=2 relays is studied in detail to illustrate the channel conditions under which selecting the best relay is not optimal, and to highlight the nature of the rate gain due to multiple relays.
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hal-00981999 , version 1 (23-04-2014)

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Martina Cardone, Daniela Tuninetti, Raymond Knopp, Umer Salim. Gaussian Half-Duplex Relay Networks: Improved Constant Gap and Connections with the Assignment Problem. 2014. ⟨hal-00981999⟩

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