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Implications Of The Half-Duplex Constraint On Relay-Aided Cooperation Using Rateless Codes Rahul Meshram Neelesh B. Mehta, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—The half-duplex constraint, which mandates that a Unlike conventional codes, in which a finite number of cooperative relay cannot transmit and receive simultaneously, parity bits are transmitted along with information bits, rateless considerably simplifies the demands made on the hardware codes generate a potentially unbounded number of coded and signal processing capabilities of a relay. However, the very inability of a relay to transmit and receive simultaneously leads parity bits for each packet of information bits. The source to a potential under-utilization of time and bandwidth resources transmits these coded bits until it receives an acknowledgment available to the system. We analyze the impact of the half-duplex from one of the relays that it has successfully decoded the constraint on the throughput of a cooperative relay system that packet. The relay, which is of the decode-and-forward type, uses rateless codes to harness spatial diversity and efficiently then transmits the packet to the destination using a rateless transmit information from a source to a destination. We derive closed-form expressions for the throughput of the system, and code again, and does so until it receives an acknowledgment show that as the number of relays increases, the throughput ap- from the destination. proaches that of a system that uses more sophisticated full-duplex Even though it is impossible to generate universal codes nodes. Thus, half-duplex nodes are well su