Joint typicality analysis for half-duplex cooperative communication

Abstract

We propose a half-duplex cooperative scheme for a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) consisting of two users communicating with one destination. The half-duplex constraint is satisfied by performing the communication over 3 time slots with variable durations in each code block. Each user alternatively transmits and receives during the first 2 time slots, then both of them transmit during the last one. Different from [1], here we use joint typicality instead of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding to derive the rate region. The main contribution is in the joint decoding and proof techniques that concurrently combine code segments of different lengths.