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IntroductionCooperative Communications

Research ProblemsSummary

Cooperative Wireless Communications

M. R. Avendi

Communication Theory Research Group (CTRG)University of Saskatchewan

Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Ha Nguyen

April, 2013

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Outline

1 Introduction

2 Cooperative Communications

3 Research Problems

4 Summary

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Wireless Communications

Bart Simpson

Base Station

wireless channel

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Wireless Fading Channel

Mobile Phone

Base Station

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Wireless Channel Model

transmitted Signal

Received Signalfilter, h

Fading Channel

Additive noise

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Diversity

Channel fading effect: severely degrades performance

Demand for higher date rate and better quality

Diversity: different replicas of signal

Diversity techniques: time, frequency, spatial, ...

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Spatial Diversity

Mobile PhoneBase Station

Multiple Antennas

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Spatial Diversity

Mobile PhoneBase Station

Multiple Antennas!!!

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Cooperative Communications

Users help each other

UserBase Station

Relay

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Challenges

Detection: data recovery from received signalsCoherent Detection

Channel estimation needed: training symbolsThere are more fading channels to estimateSpectral efficiency, overhead, mobility of users

UserBase Station

Relay

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Challenges

Non-Coherent detection

Differential modulation/demodulationNO channel estimation needed3 dB worse than coherent detectionUser’s mobility

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Performance

Performance of a cooperative system in different scenarios

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

10−6

10−5

10−4

10−3

10−2

10−1

100

Power(dB)

Error

Slow Fast

Very Fast

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Research Problems

Performance evaluation of cooperative networks

Improve performance of the current techniques

Finding new techniques to achieve better performance

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Published Papers

1- M.R.Avendi and Ha Nguyen, ”Selection Combining forDifferential Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Over Rayleigh-FadingChannels”, IEEE signal processing letter, March 20132- M.R.Avendi and Ha Nguyen, ”Differential Amplify-and-ForwardRelaying in Time-Varying Rayleigh Fading Channels”, IEEE WCNCApril 20133- M.R.Avendi and Ha Nguyen, ”Performance of DifferentialAmplify-and-Forward Relaying in Multi-Node WirelessCommunications ”, IEEE Trans. on Vehic. Tech., to appear

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Summary

Wireless channels, fading effects

Diversity, multiple antennas

Cooperative communications

Research problems and current investigations

Thank you!

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