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 …

Integration of D2D, network slicing, and MEC in 5G cellular networks: Survey and challenges

L Nadeem, MA Azam, Y Amin, MA Al-Ghamdi… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the tremendous demand for connectivity anywhere and anytime, existing network
architectures should be modified. To cope with the challenges that arise due to the …

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 …

When social networks meet D2D communications: A survey

M Nitti, GA Stelea, V Popescu, M Fadda - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last few years, one of the main characteristics of the current technological
development is the constantly increasing need for data exchange among various types of …

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 …

Buffer-aided non-orthogonal multiple access relaying systems in Rayleigh fading channels

Q Zhang, Z Liang, Q Li, J Qin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technology in future communication
systems. In this paper, we propose a buffer-aided NOMA relaying system, which consists of …

Buffer-aided relaying for the two-hop full-duplex relay channel with self-interference

MM Razlighi, N Zlatanov - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the fading two-hop full-duplex (FD) relay channel with self-
interference, which is comprised of a source, an FD relay impaired by self-interference, and …

Achieving optimal diversity gain in buffer-aided relay networks with small buffer size

P Xu, Z Ding, I Krikidis, X Dai - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the buffer-aided relay selection problem for a decode-and-forward
cooperative wireless network with K relays. We propose a new relay selection scheme that …

Bidirectional buffer-aided relay networks with fixed rate transmission—Part II: Delay-constrained case

V Jamali, N Zlatanov, R Schober - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This is the second part of a two-part paper considering bidirectional relay networks with half-
duplex nodes and block fading where the nodes transmit with a fixed transmission rate. In …