Implementation of cooperative communications using software defined radios

Michael Knox, Elza Erkip

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Abstract

Cooperative communications leverages the spatial diversity available in a wireless network enabling multiple radio nodes work together to improve the overall system performance. When a destination receiver combines the signal from an originating source with the associated signals from relay nodes, significant improvements in the bit error rate performance can be achieved. This paper details the measured bit error rate performance of a three-node cooperative communication system operating in a software defined radio testbed. The measured performances of several types of cooperative physical layer protocols are compared to similar systems operating over a single wireless link. The measured results include cooperative systems operating with a maximum ratio combining technique and two cooperative coded systems using hard decision decoding.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Proceedings
Pages5618-5621
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Dallas, TX, United States
Duration: Mar 14 2010Mar 19 2010

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas, TX
Period3/14/103/19/10

Keywords

  • Cooperative coding
  • Cooperative communications
  • Software defined radio
  • WARP
  • WARPLAB

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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