Comparative investigation of coded cooperative communication systems

Author

Chen, L. ; Carrasco, R.A. ; Ganepola, V. ; Le Goff, S. ; Wassell, I.J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Electron. & Comput. Eng., Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne

fYear

2008

fDate

25-25 July 2008

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Cooperative communication uses multipath transmission to combat the effect of individual severe fading and path loss. So far, there are mainly three types of cooperative schemes: Amplify-and-Forward, Decode-and-Forward, and Coded Cooperation. This paper presents a convolutional coded system model and performance comparison between these three schemes. Also, this paper reveals two important parameters that determine the performance of different levels of Coded Cooperation schemes: percentage of cooperation and distributed effect for the transmitted symbols. They will be analysed and some contributing conclusions of our work will be drawn.

Keywords

convolutional codes; fading; multipath channels; radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; amplify-and-forward; coded cooperation; coded cooperative communication systems; convolutional coded system model; decode-and-forward; inter-user channel quality; multipath transmission; path loss; severe fading loss; transmission signal model; wireless network; Convolution; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Fading; Laboratories; Multiaccess communication; Propagation losses; Relays; Signal analysis; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, 2008. CNSDSP 2008. 6th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Graz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1875-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1876-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2008.4610729

Filename

4610729