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MIMO Relays for Cooperative Wireless Networks

Edited by: Ioannis Krikidis, Himal A. Suraweera, Zhiguo Ding and Sheng Yang

  1. Seaweb is an acoustic communication technology that enables communication between sensor nodes. Seaweb technology utilizes the commercially available telesonar modems that has developed link and network layer ...

    Authors: Mohammed Aquil Mirza, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir and Mohamed-Slim Alouini
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013 2013:122
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  2. In this paper, we consider the joint design of source precoding matrix and the relay precoding matrix in a two-hop multiple-input multiple-output relay network. The goal is to find a pair of matrices in order ...

    Authors: Jafar Mohammadi, Feifei Gao, Yue Rong and Wen Chen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013 2013:108
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  3. With the objective of improving the spectral efficiency and coverage homogeneity of wireless cellular systems in the downlink, we investigate how to take advantage of two promising transmission technologies en...

    Authors: Sandra Lagen, Adrian Agustin and Josep Vidal
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013 2013:13
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  4. This article proposes a novel scheme, based on unequal error protected rateless codes, for broadcasting layered multimedia over cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). By taking advantage of both co...

    Authors: Zhao Chen, Liuguo Yin, Mai Xu and Jianhua Lu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:327
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  5. Relaying is a convenient way to provide full coverage in cellular networks. In particular, small relay cells can be used as a cost-effective solution for indoor coverage in MIMO–OFDM systems. The small relay c...

    Authors: Venkatkumar Venkatasubramanian and Thomas Haustein
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:309
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  6. In this article, an orthogonal projection signal alignment (OP-SI) scheme is proposed for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems, and the user performance is studied with and without perfect c...

    Authors: Zhongyuan Zhao, Zhiguo Ding, Bin Han, Wenbo Wang and Mugen Peng
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:308
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  7. In this article, a relay on-off threshold (ROT) based on symbol error rate is derived for the cooperative communication networks with multiple antennas, where the non-orthogonal decode-and-forward (NDF) protoc...

    Authors: Dong-Sup Jin, Xianglan Jin, Jong-Seon No and Dong-Joon Shin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:305
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  8. In this study, we seek to characterise the behaviour of Spatial modulation (SM) in the multiple access scenario. By only activating a single transmit antenna for any transmission, SM entirely avoids inter-chan...

    Authors: Nikola Serafimovski, Sinan Sinanović, Marco Di Renzo and Harald Haas
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:299
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  10. Cooperative communication achieves diversity through spatially separated cooperating nodes, which are battery powered in most applications. Therefore the energy consumption must be minimized without compromisi...

    Authors: Sarmad Sohaib and Daniel KC So
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:291
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  11. Antenna correlation is generally viewed as an obstacle to realize the desired performance of a wireless system. In this article, we investigate the performance of partial relay selection in the presence of ant...

    Authors: Nuwan S Ferdinand, Upul Jayasinghe, Nandana Rajatheva and Matti Latva-aho
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:261
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