Fundamental Limits of Cooperative and Relay Network

Abstract

In this chapter, the fundamental limits of relay networks are introduced under different channel settings, including Gaussian channels and wireless fading channels. For each scenario, we will study the information-theoretic capacities, diversity-multiplexing tradeoffs, and scaling laws of large networks accordingly. In Section 5.1, we first examine the case of the single-relay Gaussian channel. When the relay is full-duplex, it can be shown that decode-and-forward (DF) and compress-and-forward (CF) schemes achieve capacity under certain scenarios; however, such results are not enjoyed in the more practical half-duplex relay network. In Section 5.2, we take the channel fading into consideration and discuss the fundamental limits under fast and slow fading scenarios.