Source and Channel Coding Techniques for Cooperative Communications

Abstract

This chapter provides a survey of practical cooperative coding schemes currently available in the literature, with focus on those schemes that achieve performance close to capacity or the best known achievable rates. To provide an insight into the construction of practical coding schemes for various cooperative communication scenarios, we first summarize the main design principles and tools that are used. We then present a survey of cooperative communication scenarios, and the progress on practical coding schemes for each of these scenarios is discussed in detail. Throughout the chapter, we demonstrate how the common design principles and tools are exploited to construct the existing practical coding schemes. We hope that the integrated view presented in this chapter can lead to further advances in this area.

Utilizing Spectrum Efficiently (USE)

“…The research activity investigated node cooperation by first compiling an extensive review of existing physical-layer coding techniques for some standard multi-terminal network models in [1]. Use was made of some of these basic physical-layer signaling components to support cooperative transmission of information from a source to a destination in a wireless network.…”