On the diversity of cooperative systems

Author

Anghel, Paul A. ; Kaveh, Mostafa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

17-21 May 2004

Abstract

The paper addresses some of the opportunities and the challenges that could arise in the design and analysis of multi-hop systems that utilize cooperation among several intermediate regenerative relays to provide reliable high-quality communication between a source and a destination. This mode of communication can be viewed as a network-embedded distributed, or extended MIMO system. Using the infrastructure provided by the uplink cellular system, we develop and analyze a distributed space-time coding (DSTC) system based on the Alamouti design. We show that with limited feedback from the base station, a DSTC system with two relays, which act as tetherless antennae, is able to induce and collect diversity in a distributed MIMO setup.

Keywords

MIMO systems; cellular radio; diversity reception; radio repeaters; space-time codes; Alamouti design; cooperative system diversity; distributed STC; distributed space-time coding; extended MIMO system; multi-hop systems; network-embedded distributed system; regenerative relays; tetherless antennae; uplink cellular system; Antenna feeds; Base stations; Cooperative systems; Feedback; MIMO; Quality of service; Relays; Shadow mapping; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8484-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326892

Filename

1326892