Wireless World Research Forum
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine · 2018
Abstract In this contribution the feasibility of providing high data rate coverage through fixed relay stations (RSs) in cellular networks is studied, under the (somewhat conservative) constraint that all the hops in a composite multi-hop link use orthogonal channels. Spectral efficiency is used as the performance metric. It is shown that, high data rate coverage is obtained by relatively high number of relays; on the contrary high number of hops is not required since that results in loss of available channels.