In the paper, we present a road-map towards a Nearcapacity Large-scale Multi-user Cooperative-communications (NLMC) system, where all the evolution paths converge to the construction of the NLMC system. More specifically, we will summarise all relevant schemes appearing on the road-map in the unified frame-work of forward error correction (FEC). Various Network Coding (NC) design paradigms are ...

In the present paper, a semi-blind receiver for a multiuser uplink DS-CDMA (Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple-Access) system based on relay aided cooperative communications is proposed. For the received signal, a quadrilinear Parallel Factor (PARAFAC) tensor decomposition is adopted, such that the proposed receiver can semi-blindly estimate the transmitted symbols, channel gains and spatia...

— Cooperative Multi-agent Systems frameworks do not include modules to test communications yet. The proposed framework incorporates robust analysis tools using IDKAnalysis2.0 to evaluate bullying effect in communications. The present work is based on ICARO-T. This platform follows the Adaptive Multi-agent Systems paradigm. Experimentation with ICARO-T includes two deployments: the equitative an...

This paper investigates the performance of cooperative receive diversity, for the wireless body area network (WBAN) radio channel, compliant with the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard, in the case of monitoring a sleeping person. Extensive WBAN measurements near the 2.4 GHz ISM band were used. Up to 7 dB and 20% improvement for two-hop communications with the use of relays are empirically demonstrated wit...

Throughput maximization is a key challenge for wireless applications in cognitive Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (CVANETs). As a potential solution, cooperative communications, which may increase link capacity by exploiting spatial diversity, has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, if link scheduling is considered, this transmission mode may perform worse than direct transmission ...

Introduction: Cooperative communications [1] create diversity gains for network users with a single antenna. The classical cooperative scheme consists of two orthogonal time slots (TS): a broadcasting TS for a source (S) to transmit its signal to the intended destination (D), and a relaying TS for a relay (R) to retransmit S’s signal to D. There are amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forwa...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems have been studied a lot in the last ten years. They have many promising features like array gain, diversity gain, spatial multiplexing gain, interference reduction, and improved capacity as compared to a single-input single-output (SISO) systems. However, the increasing demand of high data-rate in current wireless communicatio...

In the past decades, cooperative communications schemes have gained significant attention in wireless networks. The cooperative scheme leads to longer transmission time which can considerably degrade the system performance. We evaluate the saturation throughput and saturation delay of the Markov chain model with direct/cooperative schemes to support QoS in WLANs. Simulation results show that di...

Demand for high data rates is increasing rapidly for the future wireless generations, due to the requirement of ubiquitous coverage for wireless broadband services. More base stations are needed to deliver these services, in order to cope with the increased capacity demand and inherent unreliable nature of wireless medium. However, this would directly correspond to high infrastructure cost and ...