Research Group Communications Engineering - Project Description
Mutual Information based ARQ- Concepts in Relay Networks
Relay networks have received much attention in the research community during the last 10 years. In combination with Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) concepts adaptive relay protocols are established. Conventional ARQ schemes only acknowledge a successful or unsuccessful reception of a packet, i.e. they feedback 1 bit to the transmitter. If additional information like the link SNR or the missing mutual information for successful decoding are fed back as well, substantial improvements can be achieved.
In this project, the received mutual information shall be fed back in order to adapt the transmission to current channel conditions. The goal is to develop strategies to minimize the resource consumption while providing exactly as much information as necessary for a successful decoding at the destination. The resulting optimization problem has to be solved for simple repetition coding at the relay as well as for incremental redundancy.
Funding
German National Science Foundation (DFG), 2010 - 2013
Publications
Performance Comparison of different Protocols for a Two-hop Multiple Relay Network. International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'12), pp. 20-27, Dresden, Germany, 2012
Analysis of Power Optimization in a 2-hop Multiple Relay Network. International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'12), pp. 230-237, Dresden, Germany, 2012
Rate Optimization for Incremental Redundancy and Repetition Coding in Relay Networks. Proceedings of the 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2010), Barcelona, Spain, 2011
Power Optimization in Adaptive Relay Networks. Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, USA, 2010
Power Versus Relay Selection in Adaptive Relay Networks. 7th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS'10), York, UK, 2010
Optimizing ARQ Strategies in Relay Networks. 8th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'10, WNC3), Avignon, France, 2010
On the Performance of Adaptive Relaying with ARQ. International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas 2010, Bremen, Germany, 2010
Mutual Information Based Resource Allocation in Relay Networks. Proc. 8th ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding (SCC'10), Siegen, Germany, 2010
Information Combining Based ARQ in Relay Networks. 15th European Wireless Conference (EW 2009), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009