The Approximate Capacity of Half-Duplex Line Networks

Yahya H. Ezzeldin; Martina Cardone; Christina Fragouli; Daniela Tuninetti

doi:10.1109/TIT.2020.2998184

The Approximate Capacity of Half-Duplex Line Networks

Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Martina Cardone, Christina Fragouli, Daniela Tuninetti

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This paper investigates the problem of characterizing the capacity of Half-Duplex (HD) line networks, where a source node communicates to a destination node through a multi-hop path of N relays. If the relays operate in Full-Duplex (FD), it is well known that the capacity of the line network equals the minimum among the point-to-point link capacities in the path. In contrast, this paper considers a different case where the relays operate in HD. In the first part of the paper, it is shown that the approximate capacity (optimal up to a constant additive gap that only depends on the number of nodes in the network) of an HD N-relay line network equals half the minimum of the harmonic means of the point-to-point link capacities of each two consecutive links in the path. It is then proved that the N+1 listen/transmit states (out of the 2 N possible ones) sufficient to characterize the approximate capacity can be found in linear time. In the second part of the paper, it is shown that the problem of finding the path that has the largest HD approximate capacity in a network that can be represented as a graph is NP-hard. However, if the number of cycles in the network is polynomial in the number of nodes, then a polynomial-time algorithm can indeed be designed.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9103123
Pages (from-to)	4449-4467
Number of pages	19
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume	66
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2020.2998184
State	Published - Jul 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 22, 2017; revised February 18, 2020; accepted May 11, 2020. Date of publication May 28, 2020; date of current version June 18, 2020. This work was supported in part by the NSF under Award 1514531 and Award 1824568. The work of Martina Cardone was supported in part by the NSF at UCLA under Award 1314937. The work of Daniela Tuninetti was supported in part by the NSF under Award 1527059. This article was presented in part at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and in part at the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. (Corresponding author: Yahya H. Ezzeldin.) Yahya H. Ezzeldin and Christina Fragouli are with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA (e-mail: yahya.ezzeldin@ucla.edu; christina.fragouli@ucla.edu).

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Half-duplex (HD) line networks
NP-hardness
approximate capacity
efficient relays scheduling

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