A novel coding strategy is proposed for a broadcast setting with two transmitter (TX) antennas and two single-antenna receivers (RX). The strategy consists of using space-time block coding to send a common message (to be decoded by both RXs) across …
Cooperative communication can effectively mitigate the effects of multipath propagation fading by using relay channels to provide spatial diversity. A relaying scheme suitable for half-duplex devices is the quantize-and-forward (QF) protocol, in …
Cooperative communication is used as an effective measure against fading in wireless communication systems. In a classical one-way cooperative system, the relay needs as many orthogonal channels as the number of terminal it assists, yielding a poor …
The quantize-and-forward (QF) cooperative protocol can effectively be used to combat fading in systems using half-duplex relay terminals. While the outage behavior of the QF protocol has been extensively investigated, few research has been performed …
Indoor off-body wireless MIMO links between a mobile user equipped with wearable textile patch antennas and a fixed base station exhibit specific channel behavior due to the near presence and movements of the human body. Therefore, they require a …
In wireless communications, the block fading (BF) channel is an important channel model. A key quality indicator in coded transmission is the word error rate (WER), which is the fraction of packets that cannot be decoded correctly at the receiver. We …
Cooperative communication systems can effectively be used to combat fading. A cooperative protocol that can be used with half-duplex terminals is the Quantize and Forward (QF) protocol, in which the relay quantizes the information received from the …
We study Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes with iterative decoding on block-fading (BF) Relay Channels. We consider two users that employ coded cooperation, a variant of decode-and-forward with a smaller outage probability than the latter. An …
Cooperative communication is a well known technique to yield transmit diversity and network coding can increase the spectral efficiency. These two techniques can be combined to achieve a double diversity order for a maximum coding rate Rc = 2/3 on …
In this contribution, we present a novel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection scheme for Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). The proposed method is based on the slowest descent (SD) method and is suitable for both iterative and …