Throughput Optimal Control of Wireless Networks with Two-hop Cooperative Relaying

We consider cooperative relay networks with multiple stochastically varying end-to-end flows. For such networks, we study throughput optimal network control policies which stabilize the network\´s queues for any arrival rate in its stability region. In earlier work, we have developed such a policy for a simple four-node parallel relay network. In this paper, we show that this policy can be generalized to a much larger class of cooperative relay networks with various types of two-hop "cooperative links".