Resource Allocation for Active Channels

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In the past decade, relay-assisted communications have been the center focus of intensive research studies. Numerous relying strategies, including amplify-and-forward, decode-and-forward, estimate-and-forward, have been proposed in the context of one-way or two-way relay-networks with the aim to enable communications between one or more pairs of source-destination or to enable information exchange between one or more pairs of transceivers. It turns out that the relay channel belongs to a larger class of channels, namely active channels, where the channel behavior can be adjusted, for optimal performance, somewhere between the two ends of the channel. Such channel adjustability does not exist in traditional channel models (which they are herein referred to as passive channels). Indeed in traditional models of wireless channels, the end-to-end channel is often given and there is no control on the channel behavior. To compensate the channel, one has to either resort to precoding at the transmitter and/or equalize the channel at the receiver.