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2.5 Simulation Results<br />

• OptSol/JntSol: OptSol is the jo<strong>in</strong>t optimal solution proposed <strong>in</strong> subsection<br />

2.3.2 and JntSol denote the jo<strong>in</strong>t optimal solution proposed <strong>in</strong> subsection 2.4.1.<br />

• SubOpt: The suboptimal solution presented <strong>in</strong> subsection 2.3.3 or subsection<br />

2.4.2.<br />

• EP-ECarr: A solution without optimization where equal amount of<br />

sub-carriers are allocated among users and the available power is equally<br />

divided among the allocated sub-carriers<br />

• EP-RndCarr: In this case each user is randomly assigned an amount of<br />

sub-carriers and equal power distribution among the allocated sub-carriers<br />

is assumed.<br />

We first present numerical results for upl<strong>in</strong>k transmission with s<strong>in</strong>gle relay<br />

capability. The noise variances are set as σm,k 2 = σ2 j , ∀ m, k, j. The performance<br />

throughput of four different methods versus SNR for a system with M = 10 users<br />

are shown <strong>in</strong> the Fig. 2.3. We also display the objective of the dual problem at the<br />

solution po<strong>in</strong>ts <strong>in</strong> the same figure. We first observe that the duality gap between the<br />

dual objective and OptSol is close to zero at all SNR region, which demonstrate the<br />

optimality of the proposed algorithm. This is consistent with the result presented<br />

from [35]. Moreover, it can be seen that OptSol exhibits best performance at all<br />

SNR values, e.g., it yields 1.1 dB and 2.6 dB ga<strong>in</strong>s over EP-ECarr and EP-RndCarr<br />

solutions, respectively, at the rate equal to 1 bits/s/Hz. In comparison, the rate<br />

loss of the proposed suboptimal solution is only 0.3 dB but it requires much less<br />

computational complexity.<br />

Next we exam<strong>in</strong>e the performance of the end-to-end rate versus the number of<br />

MUs for a s<strong>in</strong>gle relay system. The correspond<strong>in</strong>g curves at SNR= 10 dB are shown<br />

<strong>in</strong> Fig. 2.4. It can be seen that OptSol always yields the best performance, while<br />

a significant ga<strong>in</strong> over EP-ECarr and EP-RndCarr is observed when the number<br />

of the users <strong>in</strong>creases. This is basically due to two facts: i) the performance loss<br />

without optimization will become significant; ii) no multi-user diversity is exploited.<br />

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