Feasibility of Providing High Data Rate Coverage in Cellular Fixed Relay Networks

Page 1 (8) 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.