Expanding the compute-and-forward framework: Unequal powers, signal levels, and multiple linear combinations

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4879-4909

  Nazer, Bobak ^a   Cadambe, Viveck R ^b   Ntranos, Vasilis ^c   Caire, Giuseppe ^c,d  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

compute and forward; Interference; nested lattice codes; successive decoding; unequal powers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION THEORY; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

COMPUTE AND FORWARDS; END-TO-END COMMUNICATION; GAUSSIAN NETWORKS; INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NESTED LATTICE CODES; SUCCESSIVE DECODING; UNEQUAL POWERS;

DECODING;

EID: 84983514839     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2016.2593633     Document Type: Article

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