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4.6 Summary<br />

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Figure 4.4: Rate versus SNR with orthogonal transmission.<br />

4.6 Summary<br />

In this chapter, a dual hop communication was considered where the multiple relay<br />

nodes receive and transmit <strong>in</strong>formation over a common frequency band. First a<br />

non-orthogonal transmission was assumed where all the relays transmit over all<br />

the <strong>OFDM</strong> sub-carriers to maximize the system throughput. Different variables<br />

were optimized to develop a jo<strong>in</strong>t resource allocation algorithm, i.e., the power<br />

allocation over different sub-carriers at SN, the beamform<strong>in</strong>g coefficients at RNs,<br />

and the sub-carrier pair<strong>in</strong>g at the relays. The complexity of the jo<strong>in</strong>t resource<br />

allocation scheme <strong>in</strong>creases with <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g the number of relay nodes. To reduce<br />

the computation burden, a suboptimal algorithm was then designed. Secondly,<br />

an orthogonal parallel transmission was studied where the relay nodes transmit <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>dependent time slots. In this scenario, the power allocation at the source/relay<br />

nodes and the sub-carrier pair<strong>in</strong>g was optimized to enhance the system throughput.<br />

However, this scheme provides much lower performance than the non-orthogonal<br />

scheme because of the N + 1 time slots required for a complete transmission. The<br />

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