1st International ICST Workshop on Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition

Research Article

Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480095,
        author={Michael Katz and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)},
        title={Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={WNC\^{}3},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={Decoding  Degradation  Fading  Protocols  Quantization  Random variables  Relays  Transmitters  Uncertainty  Wireless networks},
        doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480095}
    }
    
  • Michael Katz
    Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
    Year: 2008
    Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters
    WNC^3
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480095
Michael Katz1,*, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)1,*
  • 1: Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion city, Haifa 32000, Israel
*Contact email: michaelk@techunix.technion.ac.il, sshlomo@ee.technion.ac.il

Abstract

We address a scenario where a source sends information to a remote destination and where a relay terminal is occasionally present in close proximity to the source, but without the source's knowledge. We assume independent block fading channels from the source and the occasional relay to the destination, while the channel between the source and the relay is assumed additive Gaussian, due to their mutual proximity. The focus is on cooperative schemes which make efficient use of the relay when it is present, and maintain single user optimality when it is absent. One such scheme is shown to be block Markov decode-and-forward involving correlated transmissions of the source and the relay. The optimal correlation for this scheme is found by optimizing the outage performance of a 2X1 multiple-input single-output (MISO) link under certain constraints. Finally, quantization schemes involving various levels of side information are discussed.