Cooperative Communications: Hardware, Channel & PHY

Index

2G, 385

3G, 332, 385

4G, B3G, 352, 385

A posteriori probability (APP), 221, 285–6, 288–91, 299

A priori probability, 299

Access coordination, 25–32

Adaptive network coded cooperation (ANCC), 306–10

Adaptive relaying protocol (ARP), 238, 240, 243

Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), 13, 40, 56, 60, 167, 277

AF relay group, 239–41, 295, 297–301

Amplification factor

constant, 23, 61, 115, 144, 147

fixed, 23, 61, 112–13, 144

variable, 23, 60, 118, 150, 193, 323–4

Amplify and forward (AF), 22, 143, 147, 149, 151, 239, 322, 333, 349–50, 363

Amplitude, 181, see also Envelope

Antenna, 27, 40, 70, 79, 87, 129, 322, 324

Architectures

canonical, 5–6

cooperation, 5–6

distributed space-time processing, 5–6

relaying, 5–6

Asymptotic BER, 175, 198

Autocorrelation function, 51, 53–4, 72–3, 77, 99, 124–7

Average fade duration, 54, 79, 98

Azimuth, 89, 93

Bandpass filter, 322–3, 331

Belief propagation decoding, 318

Bhattacharyya parameter, 216, 238

Bipartite code graph, 304–5, 309–11, 314–15, 318

Bit error rate (BER), 35, 175, 198, 201, 261

Blind relays, see Amplification factor, fixed

Branch, 142

multi-branch dual-hop AF, 149–51

multi-branch multi-hop AF, 151–4

single-branch dual-hop AF, 142–7

single-branch multi-hop AF, 147–9

Breakpoint, 49, 64, 111, 138

Capacity, 1, 7, 12–17, 19, 23, 37

Cellular systems, 7, 40, 332, 354

Channel, 2–3, 43

ergodic, 14

estimation, 110, 133

fading, 52–56

non-ergodic, 17

simulation, 98–105, 133

Check node, 304, 306, 309, 315

Check sum, 309–10

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