Title
Degrees of freedom for a two-cell relay network with soft handoffs
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the degrees of freedom of a cellular relay network that consists of two base stations, two mobile stations and four decode-and-forward relays. The base stations and the mobile stations are equipped with M antennas each, whereas the relays are equipped with N antennas each. In addition, each base station has an independent message to each mobile station. The relays are used to forward the messages from the base stations to the mobile station as there is no direct link. We consider three different relaying architectures where the two relays associated with each base station simultaneously or alternately transmit their messages. We derive an upper bound on the degrees of freedom achievable by each relaying architecture as a function of the ratio between N and M. Furthermore, we propose an achievable scheme that uses interference alignment to achieve the upper bound on the DoF for all values of M and N except for 1 ≤ N/M ≤ 5/2.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037051
Global Communications Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
antennas,cellular radio,decode and forward communication,mobility management (mobile radio),relay networks (telecommunication),DoF,antenna,base station,decode-and-forward relay,degrees of freedom,interference alignment,message transmission,mobile station,soft handoff,two-cellular relay network
Base station,Base station identity code,Computer science,Upper and lower bounds,Mobile station,Computer network,Relay network,Cell relay,Interference alignment
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2334-0983
1
0.36
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed S. Zamzam110.36
El-Keyi, A.211.03
Mohamed Nafie325342.26
Yahya Mohasseb4639.48