Cooperative communications hardware, channel & 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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dohler, Mischa (-)
Otros Autores: Li, Yonghui, 1975-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley 2010.
Edición:1st edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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/WiMAX 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.