Optimization of a Relay-Assisted Link With Buffer State Information at the Source

Autor: Mohammad Galal Khafagy, Ahmed Sultan, Ahmed El Shafie
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: IEEE Communications Letters. 18:2149-2152
ISSN: 1089-7798
DOI: 10.1109/lcomm.2014.2363115
Popis: This letter proposes a random-access scheme em- ployed by a source in a three-node network composed of a source, a relay and a destination. The source knows the exact number of packets at the finite buffer of the relay. Based on this knowledge, the source probabilistically accesses the channel. We consider a fixed-rate transmission and study the cases with and without channel outage state information at the transmitting nodes. We maximize the throughput in both cases and provide numerical results to illustrate and verify the ideas presented in this work. Index Terms—Buffer-aided relay, BSI, CSI, linear-fractional program, Markov chain, queuing theory. I. INTRODUCTION
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