Robust Communication via Decentralized Processing with Unreliable Backhaul Links
Tues., Nov 17, 2009
5:00 - 6:00 PM
380 Soda
A source communicates with a remote destination via a number of distributed relays. Communication from source to relays takes place over a (discrete or Gaussian) broadcast channel, while the relays are connected to the receiver via orthogonal finite-capacity links. Unbeknownst to the source and relays, link failures may take place between every relay and destination in a non-ergodic fashion. Upper bounds and lower bounds are derived on average achievable rates with respect to the prior distribution of the link failures, assuming the relays to be oblivious to the source codebook. The lower bounds are obtained by proposing strategies that combine the broadcast coding approach, previously investigated for quasi-static fading channels, and different robust distributed compression techniques. Numerical results show that lower and upper bounds are quite close over most operating region.
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Joint work with O. Simeone, O. Somekh, E. Erkip, and H. V. Poor
UC Berkeley Networking
Kristen Woyach and Pulkit Grover Last Modification Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009