Design and analysis of cooperative-diversity wireless networks

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There is a growing demand for efficient techniques for next generation wireless systems. Hence, it is timely to address new technologies that can revolutionize wireless communication systems in terms of transmission rates and quality of service. Cooperative diversity is a very promising technology which is expected to be one of the underlying technologies for future wireless systems. The main concept of cooperative diversity is that intermediate nodes between the source and destination nodes can forward the source signal to obtain multiple copies of the same signal at the destination. Combining these multiple copies can bring many benefits such as better signal quality, improved coverage and higher capacity. However, cooperative diversity also brings some challenges and complexities. The main issues to be addressed in this program of research are the following: