中继网络信道分配与中继选择机制

Channel Allocation and Relay Selection Scheme in Relay-Based Networks

It has been demonstrated that either Channel Allocation (CA) or Relay Selection (RS) can improve the performance in relaying networks separately. However, there is little work concerning their combination in multi-cell uplink scenarios. In this paper, we investigate the issue which considers the CA and RS to optimize the system transmission rate in an uplink scenario, while maintaining the re-source distribution fairness among users. This is first formulated as an optimization problem for a linear cellular system, where the same frequency channels can be reused in different cells. Based on the link and co-channel inter-ference conditions, two low-complexity CA and RS schemes are then proposed with dif-ferent decomposition sequences. Finally, nu-merical results are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed CA and RS methods. Simulations results show that the proposed methods can yield significant im-provements in system performance in terms of average sum rate.