ABSRACT: The cost incurred on installation for broadband data for consumer has made the power line communication the technology to be considered for the provision. As appropriate as this medium is, the challenges inherent in it makes high-speed transmission unreliable, as signal propagated through it suffers attenuation, experiences multipath and bewitchment of noise. This causes depreciation o...

This paper demonstrates the significant gains that multi-access users can achieve from sharing a single amplify-forward relay in slow fading environments. The proposed protocol, namely the multiaccess relay amplify-forward, allows for a low-complexity relay and achieves the optimal diversitymultiplexing trade-off at high multiplexing gains. Analysis of the protocol reveals that it uniformly dom...