We define partial cognitive relay channel as a two-transmitter, two-receiver interference channel with a relay node such that one of the transmitters is a cognitive transmitter. As a more feasible assumption we assume that the cognitive transmitter has non-causally access to a part of the other transmitter's encoded message. The cognitive radio transmitter transmits simultaneously over the same channel instead of waiting for an idle channel which is traditional for a cognitive radio. We calculate the achievable rate region for partial cognitive relay channel based on the combination of partial decode-compress and forward for the relay, rate-splitting and Gel'fand and Pinsker coding. Numerical evaluation of the region in the practical Gaussian case is performed. We show that by defining a proper cooperation strategy among the transmitters, equipping some of them with the cognition capability and exploiting the relay nodes, the effective bandwidth of each transmitter will enhance greatly.
Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Arnout Jan J Devos, Franco Maloberti