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This paper investigates the simplification problem in Gaussian Half-Duplex (HD) diamond networks. The goal is to answer the following question: what is the minimum (worst-case) fraction of the total HD capacity that one can always achieve…
We consider the Gaussian N-relay diamond network, where a source wants to communicate to a destination node through a layer of N-relay nodes. We investigate the following question: what fraction of the capacity can we maintain by using only…
This paper considers a general Gaussian relay network where a source transmits a message to a destination with the help of N half-duplex relays. It proves that the information theoretic cut-set upper bound to the capacity can be achieved to…
This paper considers Gaussian half-duplex diamond $n$-relay networks, where a source communicates with a destination by hopping information through one layer of $n$ non-communicating relays that operate in half-duplex. The main focus…
In ISIT'12 Brahma, \"{O}zg\"{u}r and Fragouli conjectured that in a half-duplex diamond relay network (a Gaussian noise network without a direct source-destination link and with $N$ non-interfering relays) an approximately optimal relay…
The problem of operating a Gaussian Half-Duplex (HD) relay network optimally is challenging due to the exponential number of listen/transmit network states that need to be considered. Recent results have shown that, for the class of…
We consider an arbitrary layered Gaussian relay network with $L$ layers of $N$ relays each, from which we select subnetworks with $K$ relays per layer. We prove that: (i) For arbitrary $L, N$ and $K = 1$, there always exists a subnetwork…
This paper studies networks with N half-duplex relays assisting the communication between a source and a destination. In ISIT'12 Brahma, \"{O}zg\"{u}r and Fragouli conjectured that in Gaussian half-duplex diamond networks (i.e., without a…
Consider a wireless Gaussian network where a source wishes to communicate with a destination with the help of N full-duplex relay nodes. Most practical systems today route information from the source to the destination using the best path…
We consider a communication scenario where a source communicates with a destination over a directed layered relay network. Each relay performs analog network coding where it scales and forwards the signals received at its input. In this…
This paper considers Gaussian relay networks where a source transmits a message to a sink terminal with the help of one or more relay nodes. The relays work in half-duplex mode, in the sense that they can not transmit and receive at the…
We consider the N-relay Gaussian diamond network where a source node communicates to a destination node via N parallel relays through a cascade of a Gaussian broadcast (BC) and a multiple access (MAC) channel. Introduced in 2000 by Schein…
We consider the Gaussian "diamond" or parallel relay network, in which a source node transmits a message to a destination node with the help of N relays. Even for the symmetric setting, in which the channel gains to the relays are identical…
Computing the cut-set bound in half-duplex relay networks is a challenging optimization problem, since it requires finding the cut-set optimal half-duplex schedule. This subproblem in general involves an exponential number of variables,…
Routing is a widespread approach to transfer information from a source node to a destination node in many deployed wireless ad-hoc networks. Today's implemented routing algorithms seek to efficiently find the path/route with the largest…
The capacity or approximations to capacity of various single-source single-destination relay network models has been characterized in terms of the cut-set upper bound. In principle, a direct computation of this bound requires evaluating the…
Quantize-Map-and-Forward (QMF) relaying has been shown to achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing trade-off (DMT) for arbitrary slow fading full-duplex networks as well as for the single-relay half-duplex network. A key reason for this…
We consider single-source single-sink (ss-ss) multi-hop relay networks, with slow-fading links and single-antenna half-duplex relay nodes. In a companion paper, we established some basic results which laid the foundation for the results…
We consider a diamond-shaped dual-hop communication system consisting a source, two parallel half-duplex relays and a destination. In a single antenna configuration, it has been previously shown that a two-phase node-scheduling algorithm,…
This paper considers a diamond network with $n$ interconnected relays, namely a network where a source communicates with a destination by hopping information through $n$ communicating/interconnected relays. Specifically, the main focus of…