Stability Analysis for Network Coded Multicast Cell with Opportunistic Relay

In this paper, we propose an opportunistic relay with network coding for multicast cell. Specifically, we propose three strategies for the opportunistic relay. By analyzing the stability regions for the three proposed strategies, we find that the two strategies with network coding outperform that without network coding in terms of stability region. In addition, the strategy with opportunistic network coding outperforms that with relatively static network coding. Finally, simulation results validate our theoretical predictions.