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1396 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 10, NO. 5, MAY 2011 Transactions Papers Half-Duplex Relaying in Downlink Cellular Systems Chandrasekharan Raman, Gerard J. Foschini, Life Fellow, IEEE , Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Fellow, IEEE, Roy D. Yates, Fellow, IEEE, and Narayan B. Mandayam, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—We compare the performance of half-duplex relays reception at the destination terminals. Since they rely on air in downlink cellular system against a baseline system without interfaces, relays avoid the back-haul costs involving data relays. We simulate the performance of (i) a collaborative power aggregation and infrastructure costs associated with backbone addition scheme, where the relay boosts the received power (P- CPA) at the mobile locations, and (ii) a CPA scheme with power connectivity. Below, we present some open issues related to control (PC-CPA) at the base station and relays. Evaluations are relaying in cellular systems. done in the context of a 19-cell, 57-sector set-up in which each of 1) Throughput gains due to relay deployments. Relays pro- the served users must be delivered a message. The user messages vide power gains due to reduction of distance attenuation are taken to have the same size and 90% of users in the network in coverage limited scenarios [2]. These power gains, in must be served. Improvements over the baseline due to relay deployments are measured in terms of increase in common rate turn, could translate t