Advanced cooperative techniques in wireless networks
- Reference number
- SM08-0047
- Start and end dates
- 090101-090630
- Amount granted
- 607 000 SEK
- Administrative organization
- Ericsson AB
- Research area
- Information, Communication and Systems Technology
Summary
The motivation for this work is to seek methods in wireless communication that, improve performance, provide more cost-efftive solutions, and offer a resource and energy efficient system design. This is adressed by wireless cooperative methods that will include different network topologies, like relaying and multihopping etc., which are jointly designed with radio realistic and adapted Network coding (NC) and dirty paper coding (DPC) methods. Information theoretical tools are used and based on this novel and improved communication schemes are devised. My objective is to: • Study information theory and coding. - 1 month • Perform literature studies on Network coding and Dirty paper coding. - 1 month • Apply knowledge in the area of information theory, NC, DPC to, develop new schemes for, and analyze relaying, bi-directional relaying, Hybrid-ARQ, and multihop networks etc under realistic radio channel modeling. performance, cost, as well as resource and energy efficient system design are adressed. - 2 months • Work and write a set of papers jointly with other researchers. - 2 months Expected results are: • An improved understanding of NC (and DPC) in the context of wireless in general and in particular with information theoretical tools. • A set of joint papers written and submitted to relevant conferences. • Industry view and practical problems and ideas brought to the university. • State of the art ideas and knowledge in academia brought back to home org.
Popular science description
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