On the Stability Region of a Relay-Assisted Multiple Access Scheme

Nikolaos Pappas (1) , Marios Kountouris (1) , A. Ephremides (2) , A. Traganitis (3)

1 E3S - Supélec Sciences des Systèmes
2 ECE - University of Maryland - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Univ. of Maryland]
3 UOC - University of Crete [Heraklion]

In this paper we study the impact of a relay node in a two-user network. We assume a random access collision channel model with erasures. In particular we obtain an inner and an outer bound for the stability region.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]; Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]

Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris, A. Ephremides, A. Traganitis. On the Stability Region of a Relay-Assisted Multiple Access Scheme. 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) , Sep 2013, Seville, Spain. ⟨10.1109/ITW.2013.6691337⟩. ⟨hal-00827518⟩