Outage Capacity of the Fading Relay Channel in the Low-SNR Regime
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Publication:3548898
DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.892773zbMATH Open1310.94101arXivcs/0602050OpenAlexW2154056004MaRDI QIDQ3548898FDOQ3548898
Authors: A. Salman Avestimehr, David N. C. Tse 
Publication date: 21 December 2008
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In slow fading scenarios, cooperation between nodes can increase the amount of diversity for communication. We study the performance limit in such scenarios by analyzing the outage capacity of slow fading relay channels. Our focus is on the low SNR and low outage probability regime, where the adverse impact of fading is greatest but so are the potential gains from cooperation. We showed that while the standard Amplify-Forward protocol performs very poorly in this regime, a modified version we called the Bursty Amplify-Forward protocol is optimal and achieves the outage capacity of the network. Moreover, this performance can be achieved without a priori channel knowledge at the receivers. In contrast, the Decode-Forward protocol is strictly sub-optimal in this regime. Our results directly yield the outage capacity per unit energy of fading relay channels.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0602050
Communication theory (94A05) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)
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