Title :
A survey of implementation efforts and experimental design for cooperative communications
Author :
Bradford, Glenn J. ; Laneman, J. Nicholas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Abstract :
Design and analysis of cooperative communication schemes based upon modeling and simulation exist in large quantities in the research literature. Despite this fact, there have been relatively few efforts directed toward implementing and experimentally evaluating such schemes. Cooperative protocols have many components that make them challenging to implement in real-world radio architectures, and their expected gains are highly dependent on the network topology and RF environment in which they operate. As such, experimental work will be crucial in the transition of such schemes from conceptual proposals to next-generation wireless standards. This paper motivates such practical work, surveys existing efforts in the area, and offers future direction for architectural and experimental design.
Keywords :
protocols; radiocommunication; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication standards; architectural design; cooperative communication schemes; network topology; next-generation wireless standards; real-world radio architectures; research literature; Design for experiments; Diversity methods; Fading; Network topology; Performance gain; Physical layer; Protocols; Radio frequency; Relays; Shadow mapping; cooperative diversity; experimentation; implementation;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4295-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495248