Near-Capacity Irregular Convolutional Coded Cooperative Differential Linear Dispersion Codes Using Multiple-Symbol Differential Detection

We propose a novel near-capacity Multiple-Symbol Differential Decoding (MSDD) aided cooperative Differential Linear Dispersion Code (DLDC) scheme, which exhibits a high grade of system design flexibility in terms of the choice of activated relays and the DLDC´s rate allocation. More specifically, the system has the freedom to activate a range of DLDCs depending on both the number of relays available in the network, as well as on their position, throughput and complexity considerations.