Resource Allocation via Linear Programming for Fractional Cooperation

In this letter, resource allocation is considered for large multi-source, multi-relay networks employing fractional cooperation, in which each potential relay only allocates a fraction of its resources to relaying. Using a Gaussian approximation, it is shown that the optimization can be posed as a linear program, where the relays use a demodulate-and-forward (DemF) strategy, and where the transmissions are protected by low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. This is useful since existing optimization schemes for this problem are nonconvex.