Cooperative Communications : Hardware, Channel and PHY

by Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain); Yonghui Li (The University of Sydney)

• ISBN13: 9780470740064
• ISBN10: 047074006X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Facilitating Cooperation for Wireless SystemsCooperative Communications: Hardware, Channel & PHY focuses on issues pertaining to the PHY layer of wireless communication networks, offering a rigorous taxonomy of this dispersed field, along with a range of application scenarios for cooperative and distributed schemes, demonstrating how these techniques can be employed. The authors discuss hardware, complexity and power consumption issues, which are vital for understanding what can be realized at the PHY layer, showing how wireless channel models differ from more traditional models, and highlighting the reliance of PHY algorithm performance on the underlying channel models. Numerous transparent and regenerative relaying protocols are described in detail for a variety of transparent and regenerative cooperative schemes. Key Features: Introduces background, concepts, applications, milestones and thorough taxonomy Identifies the potential in this emerging technology applied to e.g. LTE/WiMAX, WSN Discusses latest wireless channel models for transparent and regenerative protocols Addresses the fundamentals as well as latest emerging PHY protocols Introduces transparent distributed STBC, STTC, multiplexing and beamforming protocols Quantifies regenerative distributed space-time, channel and network coding protocols Explores system optimization, such as distributed power allocation and relay selection Introduces and compares analog and digital hardware architectures Quantifies complexity, memory and power consumption of 3G UMTS & 4G LTE/WiMAX relay Highlights future research challenges within the cooperative communications field This book is an invaluable guide for professionals and researchers in communications fields. It will also be of interest to graduates of communications and electronic engineering courses. It forms part of an entire series dedicated to cooperative wireless systems.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Functions

Symbols

Introduction

Book Structure

Quick Introduction

Application Scenarios

Pros and Cons of Cooperation

Cooperative Performance Bounds

Definitions and Terminology

Background and Milestones

Concluding Remarks

Wireless Relay Channel

Introductory Note

General Characteristics and Trends

Regenerative Relaying Channel

Transparent Relaying Channel

Distributed MIMO Channel

Concluding Remarks

Transparent Relaying Techniques

Introductory Note

Transparent Relaying Protocols

Transparent Space-Time Processing

Distributed System Optimization

Concluding Remarks

Regenerative Relaying Techniques

Introductory Note

Regenerative Relay Protocols

Distributed Space-Time Coding

Distributed Network Coding

Concluding Remarks

Hardware Issues

Introductory Note

Analog Hardware Transceivers

Digital Hardware Transceivers

Architectural Comparisons

Complexity of 3G UMTS Voice/HSDPA Relay

Complexity of LTE/WiMAX Relay

Hardware Demonstrators

Concluding Remarks

Conclusions and Outlook

Contributions

Real-World Impairments

Open Research Problems

Business Challenges

References

Index

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