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4.1 Introduction<br />

• Non-orthogonal transmission where all the relays transmit simultaneously over<br />

all the sub-carriers. In this work we consider this scheme of transmission.<br />

• The orthogonal transmission such that each relay transmits <strong>in</strong> exclusive time<br />

slot over all <strong>OFDM</strong> sub-carriers. This resource allocation under this scheme<br />

is also discussed <strong>in</strong> this chapter.<br />

The resource optimization <strong>in</strong> dual hop relay networks has been studied <strong>in</strong><br />

[56]–[62]. The authors <strong>in</strong> [56] <strong>in</strong>vestigated the power allocation problem <strong>in</strong> parallel<br />

relay networks such that each relay transmits <strong>in</strong> a pre-assigned time slot under<br />

AF protocol. Moreover, a relay selection scheme was also proposed <strong>in</strong> this work.<br />

The power optimization <strong>in</strong> multi-relay system where the source node and each<br />

relay station transmit over orthogonal channels was considered <strong>in</strong> [57]. In flat<br />

fad<strong>in</strong>g transmission, the beamform<strong>in</strong>g problem <strong>in</strong> AF multi-relay networks under<br />

an aggregate power constra<strong>in</strong>t has been studied <strong>in</strong> [58]. The optimal beamform<strong>in</strong>g<br />

coefficients under <strong>in</strong>dividual power constra<strong>in</strong>ts were derived <strong>in</strong> [59]. Distributed<br />

beamform<strong>in</strong>g strategies were developed <strong>in</strong> [60]. [61] considered the distributive<br />

beamform<strong>in</strong>g design <strong>in</strong> multi-relay network with multiple sources and multiple<br />

dest<strong>in</strong>ations. Further, [62] <strong>in</strong>vestigated the jo<strong>in</strong>t power load<strong>in</strong>g and bandwidth<br />

allocation strategies for orthogonal and non-orthogonal multi-relay systems.<br />

The relay networks with comb<strong>in</strong>ation of <strong>OFDM</strong> transmission have been<br />

proposed to further enhance the system performance [20]–[21]. The relay power<br />

allocation problem to maximize the system throughput <strong>in</strong> <strong>OFDM</strong> based parallel<br />

relay networks has been considered <strong>in</strong> [63]. Further, the authors also <strong>in</strong>vestigated<br />

the relay power allocation <strong>in</strong> the scenario where each relay transmits <strong>in</strong> preassigned<br />

time slot <strong>in</strong> [64] and [65]. However, [63]–[65] did not consider the power allocation<br />

at the source node. In multi-hop networks the channels over different hops vary<br />

<strong>in</strong>dependently. With this fact, the sub-carrier par<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> multi-relay systems has<br />

been considered <strong>in</strong> [16], [26], and [66]. However, all of these three works assumed<br />

an <strong>OFDM</strong>A based relay selection protocol where each sub-carrier can be assigned<br />

to maximum one relay station <strong>in</strong> each hop and each relay transmits over disjo<strong>in</strong>t set<br />

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