Cooperative relay design for energy efficient cell capacity improvements

The effect of relaying in terms of energy efficiency is an important and interesting issue in cellular communications. In this paper, two relaying schemes for uplink are analyzed and compared in the context of cellular systems: Simple relaying (SR), where a user is served either by a relay node or the base station, and Cooperative Relaying (CR), where a user is served by the relay node, the base station or both in a cooperative manner. For the...