The thalamus has long been seen as responsible for relaying information on the way to the cerebral cortex, but it has not been until the last decade or so that the functional nature of this relay has attracted significant attention. Whereas earlier views tended to relegate thalamic function to a simple, machine-like relay process, recent research, reviewed in this article, demonstrates complica...

In this paper, we investigate an opportunistic relay and jammer scheme along with relay selection algorithms based on the secrecy rate criterion in multiple-input multiple-output buffer-aided down link relay networks, which consist of one source, a number of relay nodes, legitimate users and eavesdroppers, with the constraints of physical layer security. The opportunistic relay and jammer schem...

This paper investigates the outage probability and the throughput of relay networks with wireless information and energy transfer where the relays harvest energy from the transmitted radio-frequency signal of the source. Considering different power consumption models, we derive the outage probability for both adaptive and non-adaptive power allocations at the relay. With a total energy consumpt...

Two-way relay is potentially an effective approach to spectrum sharing and aggregation by allowing simultaneous bidirectional transmissions between source-destinations pairs. This paper studies the two-way 2×2×2 relay network, a class of four-unicast networks, where there are four source/destination nodes and two relay nodes, with each source sending a message to its destination. We show that w...

In this article, we study the optimal structure of the source precoding matrix and the relay amplifying matrices for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication systems with parallel relay nodes. Two types of receivers are considered at the destination node: (1) The linear minimal mean-squared error (MMSE) receiver; (2) The nonlinear decision feedback equalizer based on the minima...

Abstract— In this paper, the Gaussian relay channel with linear time-invariant relay filtering is considered. Based on spectral theory for stationary processes, the maximum achievable rate of this subclass of Gaussian relay operation is obtained in finiteletter characterization. The maximum rate of this subclass can be achieved by dividing the overall frequency band (or the overall time interva...

Structural robustness of limit cycles in relay feedback systems is studied. Motivated by a recent discovery of a novel class of bifurcations in these systems, it is illustrated through numerical simulation that small relay perturbations may change the appearance of closed orbits dramatically. It is shown analytically that certain stable periodic solutions in relay feedback systems are robust to...

The problem of soft information optimization for memoryless relay networks is motivated and studied through AF relay networks, and in particular the AF relay multiple access (MAC) and broadcast (BC) channels. Relay optimization, capacity region characterization and optimal scheduling are addressed.

Cooperative communications is a new wireless communication technique which allows single antenna mobiles to share their antennas and to produce virtual multiple antenna system. We investigate the impact of relay location on the SER and system capacity for multi relay (amplify and forward) cooperative network in terms of distance and obtained the best relay location analytically. The impact of r...