TY - GEN
T1 - Randomized space-time coding for distributed cooperative communication
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006
AU - Mergen, Birsen Sirkeci
AU - Scaglione, Anna
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We study the problem of designing distributed space-time codes for cooperative communication. A major challenge in distributed cooperative transmissions is to find a way to coordinate the relay transmissions without requiring extra control information overhead. Most of the previous works on the subject assume each node emulates a predetermined antenna of a multiple-antenna system. However, this requires a centralized "antenna allocation" procedure. Here, we introduce randomized strategies that decentralize the transmission of a space time code from a set of distributed relays. The simple idea we propose is to let each node transmit a random linear combination of the codewords that would be transmitted by all the antennas in a centralized space time coding scheme. We provide different code designs that achieve the diversity order (min(N, L)) when number of nodes N is different than the number of virtual antennas L. In this paper, we focus on the case when N = L and we show that under certain designs the achieved diversity order is fractional.
AB - We study the problem of designing distributed space-time codes for cooperative communication. A major challenge in distributed cooperative transmissions is to find a way to coordinate the relay transmissions without requiring extra control information overhead. Most of the previous works on the subject assume each node emulates a predetermined antenna of a multiple-antenna system. However, this requires a centralized "antenna allocation" procedure. Here, we introduce randomized strategies that decentralize the transmission of a space time code from a set of distributed relays. The simple idea we propose is to let each node transmit a random linear combination of the codewords that would be transmitted by all the antennas in a centralized space time coding scheme. We provide different code designs that achieve the diversity order (min(N, L)) when number of nodes N is different than the number of virtual antennas L. In this paper, we focus on the case when N = L and we show that under certain designs the achieved diversity order is fractional.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33947677533
SN - 142440469X
SN - 9781424404698
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - IV677-IV680
BT - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Y2 - 14 May 2006 through 19 May 2006
ER -