Buffer-aided cooperative communications: opportunities and challenges

N Zlatanov, A Ikhlef, T Islam… - IEEE Communications …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative communication can increase the throughput and/or extend the coverage of
wireless networks. However, in conventional cooperative networks, half-duplex relays …

A survey on buffer-aided relay selection

N Nomikos, T Charalambous, I Krikidis… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relays receive and retransmit signals between one or more sources and one or more
destinations. Cooperative relaying is a novel technique for wireless communications that …

Throughput maximization for UAV-enabled mobile relaying systems

Y Zeng, R Zhang, TJ Lim - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a novel mobile relaying technique, where the relay nodes are
mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and hence are capable of moving at high …

A wireless relay network based on unmanned aircraft system with rate optimization

F Ono, H Ochiai, R Miura - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a wireless relay network model for an unmanned aircraft (UA)
system, where an UA serves as a resilient moving relay among the ground stations with …

Max-ratio relay selection in secure buffer-aided cooperative wireless networks

G Chen, Z Tian, Y Gong, Z Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the security of transmission in buffer-aided decode-and-forward
cooperative wireless networks. An eavesdropper which can intercept the data transmission …

Throughput maximization of mixed FSO/RF UAV-aided mobile relaying with a buffer

JH Lee, KH Park, YC Ko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate a mobile relaying system assisted by an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) with a finite size of the buffer. Under the buffer size limit and delay constraints …

Buffer-aided relay selection with reduced packet delay in cooperative networks

Z Tian, Y Gong, G Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applying data buffers at relay nodes significantly improves the outage performance in relay
networks, but the performance gain is often at the price of long packet delays. In this paper, a …

Buffer state based relay selection for buffer-aided cooperative relaying systems

S Luo, KC Teh - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a buffer state based relay selection scheme for a finite buffer-aided
cooperative relaying system. Our proposed relay selection scheme selects a relay node …

Buffer-aided relaying with adaptive link selection—Fixed and mixed rate transmission

N Zlatanov, R Schober - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a simple network consisting of a source, a half-duplex decode-and-forward
relay with a buffer, and a destination. We assume that the direct source-destination link is not …

Buffer-aided max-link relay selection in amplify-and-forward cooperative networks

Z Tian, G Chen, Y Gong, Z Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the outage performance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay system
that exploits buffer-aided max-link relay selection. Both asymmetric and symmetric source-to …