Abstract
User cooperation is a spatial diversity technique where multiple terminals form a virtual antenna array to combat fading. We incorporate source coding into the cooperation scenario and analyze cooperation protocols with respect to the average distortion they achieve. We first compare the amplify-and-forward (AF) protocol to direct transmission (DT) and show that it does not increase the performance in the average distortion sense. Then we propose two new cooperation protocols which achieve better performance by increasing the spectral efficiency while still providing diversity, yet maintaining the simple nature of the previous protocols.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Event | Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: Jun 27 2004 → Jul 2 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Modeling and Simulation
- Applied Mathematics