Analog source exchange with the help of a relay

  • Authors:
  • Tùng T. Kim;H. Vincent Poor

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The problem of bidirectionally transmitting two analog sources over a fading channel with the help of a relay is studied. In the regime of high signal-to-noise ratios, upper and lower bounds on the exponent of the end-to-end expected distortion are derived. It is shown that simple two-way relaying protocols based on the separation of source and channel coding can provide significant improvements in the distortion exponent over their one-way counterparts. In particular, in the regime of low channel bandwidth to source bandwidth ratios, an amplify-and-forward scheme is shown to achieve good distortion performance, albeit at the cost of large feedback overhead. In the regime of high bandwidth ratio, even better performance is achieved by a novel adaptive decode-and-forward scheme that successfully exploits low-rate feedback from the relay to the source nodes.