Near-capacity cooperative space-time coding employing irregular design and successive relaying

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2232-2241

  Kong, Lingkun ^a   Ng, Soon Xin ^a   Maunder, Robert G ^a   Hanzo, Lajos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EXIT charts; irregular convolutional code; Irregular cooperative space time code; iterative detection

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL'S CAPACITY; CODING SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE SPACE-TIME CODING; DESTINATION NODES; EXIT-CHARTS; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER; HALF-DUPLEX; IRREGULAR CONVOLUTIONAL CODE; ITERATIVE DETECTION; JOINT SOURCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RELAY NODE; RELAYING PROTOCOLS; SPACE TIME CODE; SPACE TIME CODING; SUCCESSIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATIONS; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DEMODULATION; DESIGN; IRIDIUM; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME MEASUREMENT;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 77956197777     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.08.090646     Document Type: Article

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