Uplink Power Saving Potential of Cellular System with Fixed Relays

This paper presented a scheme of relayed cellular mobile telecommunication network, which only employs fixed digital relays and not more than two-hop relay routes. Power saving potential of the network is deeply studied under the assumption of not occupying additional frequency bands （i. e. relays share the same frequency bands as used by the base stations）. Theoretical analysis and simulation results have both shown that, with the same radio coverage requirement, the necessary effective transmission powers in such a relayed network have greatly decreased compared to conventional cellular network.     

Resource Partitioning and Routing Optimization in Relay Enhanced Cellular Network

A joint routing and resource partitioning scheme were proposed to improve cell capacity and user throughput of cellular network enhanced with two-hop fixed relay nodes (FRNs). Radio resources are partitioned under a reuse partitioning based framework, which guarantees effective and efficient inter-cell interference management. At the same time, each mobile terminal was assigned a channel-dependent route by the routing controller, which tries to maximize the cell capacity under the constraint imposed by reuse partitioning. Intensive computer simulations demonstrate the performance superiority of the FRN enhanced cellular network employing this scheme in comparison with conventional network, as well as the validity of the channel-dependent routing mechanism.