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Cooperative Communication Protocols : Diversity-Multiplexing Gain Tradeoff And Code Constructions

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Title Cooperative Communication Protocols : Diversity-Multiplexing Gain Tradeoff And Code Constructions
 
Creator Vinodh, K
 
Subject Coding Theory
Computer Communication Protocols
Orthogonal Amplify-And-Forward Protocol (OAF)
Selection Decode-And-Forward Protocol (SDF)
Cyclic Division Algebras
Cyclic Division Algebra Codes
Diversity-Mulplexing Gain Tradeoff (DMT)
Cooperative Communication Protocols
Communications Engineering
 
Description Cooperative relay communication is a promising means of wireless communication in which cooperation is used to create a virtual transmit array between the source and the destination, thereby providing spatial diversity for combating the fading channel.
In this thesis we develop cooperative communication protocols namely the orthogonal amplify-and-forward (OAF), non-orthogonal and orthogonal selection decode-and-forward (NSDF and OSDF) protocols.
The diversity-multiplexing gain tradeoff (DMT) of the three protocols is determined and DMT-optimal distributed space-time code constructions are provided. The code construction is based on Cyclic Division Algebras. The codes constructed are sphere decodable and in some instances incur minimum possible delay.
Included in our results is the perhaps surprising finding that the OAF and NAF protocols have identical DMT when the time durations of the broadcast and cooperative phases are optimally chosen to suit the respective protocol.
Two variants of the NSDF protocol are considered: fixed-NSDF and variable-NSDF protocol. In the variable-NSDF protocol, the fraction of time occupied by the broadcast phase is allowed to vary with multiplexing gain. In the two-relay case, the variable-NSDF protocol is shown to improve on the DMT of the best previously-known static protocol for higher values of multiplexing gain. Our results also establish that the fixed-NSDF protocol has a better DMT than the NAF protocol for any number of relays.
 
Contributor Kumar, P Vijay
 
Date 2009-05-19T10:08:14Z
2009-05-19T10:08:14Z
2009-05-19T10:08:14Z
2007-07
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/505
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G21664