Opportunistic communications in an orthogonal multiaccess relay channel

Lalitha Sankar, Yingbin Liang, H. Vincent Poor, Narayan Mandayam

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Abstract

The problem of resource allocation is studied for a two-user fading orthogonal multiaccess relay channel (MARC) where both users (sources) communicate with a destination in the presence of a relay. A half-duplex relay is considered that transmits on a channel orthogonal to that used by the sources. The instantaneous fading state between every transmit-receive pair in this network is assumed to be known at both the transmitter and receiver. Under an average power constraint at each source and the relay, the sum-rate for the achievable strategy of decode-and-forward (DF) is maximized over all power allocations (policies) at the sources and relay. It is shown that the sum-rate maximizing policy exploits the multiuser fading diversity to reveal the optimality of opportunistic channel use by each user. A geometric interpretation of the optimal power policy is also presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007
Pages1261-1265
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007 - Nice, France
Duration: Jun 24 2007Jun 29 2007

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8101

Other

Other2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2007
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period6/24/076/29/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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