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Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Half-Duplex Relay Systems Melda Yuksel and Elza Erkip Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Polytechnic University Brooklyn, New York 11201-3840 Contact e-mail: myukse01@ Abstract— We study the multiple antenna half-duplex relay of the frame. In [7], the authors do not assume feedback, channel from the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) per- but to improve the AF and DF schemes of [2] they allow spective. We find performance upper bounds and show that the source to transmit simultaneously with the relay. This compress-and-forward (CF) protocol achieves the upper bound. We argue that although it is hard to find the exact DMT idea is also used in [6] to study the non-orthogonal amplify- expressions for decode-and-forward (DF) type protocols, they and-forward (NAF) and dynamic decode-and-forward (DDF) would be suboptimal in the multiple antenna case. We also study protocols in terms of DMT. Both of these new schemes allow the multiple-access relay channel (MARC), and evaluate how the source to transmit for the whole frame. Similar to AF, in CF works in this system. Our results show that CF is a robust NAF the relay listens to the source during the first half of the strategy, which performs well in different relay networks and multiple antenna scenarios. frame and transmits during the second. The DDF protocol is an incremen