Rematch-and-Forward: Joint Source-Channel Coding for Parallel Relaying With Spectral Mismatch
The Gaussian parallel relay network, introduced by Schein and Gallager, consists of a concatenation of a Gaussian additive broadcast channel from a single encoder to a layer of relays followed by a Gaussian multiple-access channel from the relays to the final destination (decoder), where all noises...
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| Vydáno v: | IEEE transactions on information theory Ročník 60; číslo 1; s. 605 - 622 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York, NY
IEEE
01.01.2014
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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| ISSN: | 0018-9448, 1557-9654 |
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| Shrnutí: | The Gaussian parallel relay network, introduced by Schein and Gallager, consists of a concatenation of a Gaussian additive broadcast channel from a single encoder to a layer of relays followed by a Gaussian multiple-access channel from the relays to the final destination (decoder), where all noises are independent. This setup exhibits an inherent conflict between digital and analog relaying; while analog relaying [known as amplify-and-forward (A&F)] suffers from noise accumulation, digital relaying (known as decode-and-forward) looses the potential coherence gain in combining the relay noises at the decoder. For a large number of relays, the coherence gain is large, and thus analog relaying has better performance; however, it is limited to white channels of equal bandwidth. In this paper, we present a generalization of the analog approach to the case of bandwidth mismatch. Our strategy, coined rematch and forward (R&F), is based upon applying joint source-channel coding techniques that belong to a certain class of maximally analog schemes. Using such techniques, R&F converts the bandwidth of the broadcast section to that of the multiple-access section, creating an equivalent matched-bandwidth network over which A&F is applied. It is shown that this strategy exploits the full bandwidth of the individual channels, without sacrificing the coherence gain offered by A&F. Specifically, for given individual-link capacities, R&F remains within a constant gap from the network capacity for any number of relays and any bandwidth ratio between the sections. Finally, the approach is extended to the case of colored channels. |
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| Bibliografie: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 0018-9448 1557-9654 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TIT.2013.2287722 |