Mischa Dohler & Yonghui Li 
Cooperative Communications 
Hardware, Channel and PHY

Facilitating Cooperation for Wireless Systems



Cooperative 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/Wi MAX, 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/Wi MAX 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.

Inhoudsopgave

Preface.

Abbreviations.

Functions.

Symbols.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Book Structure.

1.2 Quick Introduction.

1.3 Application Scenarios.

1.4 Pros and Cons of Cooperation.

1.5 Cooperative Performance Bounds.

1.6 Definitions and Terminology.

1.7 Background and Milestones.

1.8 Concluding Remarks.

2 Wireless Relay Channel.

2.1 Introductory Note.

2.2 General Characteristics and Trends.

2.3 Regenerative Relaying Channel.

2.4 Transparent Relaying Channel.

2.5 Distributed MIMO Channel.

2.6 Concluding Remarks.

3 Transparent Relaying Techniques.

3.1 Introductory Note.

3.2 Transparent Relaying Protocols.

3.3 Transparent Space-Time Processing.

3.4 Distributed System Optimization.

3.5 Concluding Remarks.

4 Regenerative Relaying Techniques.

4.1 Introductory Note.

4.2 Regenerative Relay Protocols.

4.3 Distributed Space-Time Coding.

4.4 Distributed Network Coding.

4.5 Concluding Remarks.

5 Hardware Issues.

5.1 Introductory Note.

5.2 Analog Hardware Transceivers.

5.3 Digital Hardware Transceivers.

5.4 Architectural Comparisons.

5.5 Complexity of 3G UMTS Voice/HSDPA Relay.

5.6 Complexity of LTE/Wi MAX Relay.

5.7 Hardware Demonstrators.

5.8 Concluding Remarks.

6 Conclusions and Outlook.

6.1 Contributions.

6.2 Real-World Impairments.

6.3 Open Research Problems.

6.4 Business Challenges.

References.

Index.

Over de auteur

Dr. Mischa Dohler obtained his MSc degree in Telecommunications from King’s College London, UK, in 1999, his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2000, and his Ph D from King’s College London in 2003. He was lecturer at King’s College London, Centre for Telecommunications Research, until June 2005. He now works as a Senior Expert in the R&D department of France Telecom working on distributed/cooperative communication systems, sensor networks and cognitive radio. He has published over 90 technical journal and conference papers, holds several patents and has co-edited and contributed to several books.