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Advanced Distributed Wireless Communication Techniques – Theory and Practice

This Special Issue aims to capture the current state of the art of advanced distributed wireless communication techniques with special focus on physical-layer and implementation aspects.

Edited by: Christoph Mecklenbräuker, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Dirk Wuebben, Peter Rost, Jan Mietzner and Robert Schober

  1. In a switching problem, a one-to-one mapping from the inputs to the outputs is conducted according to a switch pattern, i.e., a permutation matrix. In this paper, we investigate a wireless switching problem, i...

    Authors: Miao Wang, Fanggang Wang and Zhangdui Zhong
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:130
  2. Within this article, the resource allocation problem for the multiple-access relay channel with orthogonal channel access is analysed. We propose a centralised optimisation framework that maximises the achieva...

    Authors: Stephan Schedler and Volker Kühn
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:120
  3. This paper studies the impact of quantized channel feedback on the performance of a (coherent) distributed beamforming (DBF) scheme. The analysis is done in the context of a wireless access network, and the goal ...

    Authors: Turo Halinen, Alexis A. Dowhuszko and Jyri Hämäläinen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:88
  4. This paper addresses distributed parameter coordination methods for wireless communication systems. This proposes a method based on a message-passing algorithm, namely min-sum algorithm, on factor graphs for t...

    Authors: Igor M. Guerreiro, Dennis Hui and Charles C. Cavalcante
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:83
  5. In this article, an efficient distributed and parallel algorithm is proposed to maximize the sum-rate and optimize the input distribution policy for the multi-user single input multiple output multiple access ...

    Authors: Peter He, Lian Zhao and Jianhua Lu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:80
  6. In this article, distributed interleave-division multiplexing space-time codes (dIDM-STCs) are applied for multi-user two-hop decode-and-forward (DF) relay networks. In case of decoding errors at the relays wh...

    Authors: Florian Lenkeit, Dirk Wübben and Armin Dekorsy
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:70
  7. Cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs) consist of autonomous nodes that operate in ad hoc mode and aim at efficient utilization of spectrum resources. Usually, the cognitive nodes in a CRAHN exploit a number...

    Authors: Sunil K Timalsina, Sangman Moh, Ilyong Chung and Moonsoo Kang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:69
  8. Relay, which enables coverage extension and throughput enhancement, is a very promising technique for future wireless communication systems. Among different types of relay, type II relay is one kind of inband ...

    Authors: Anxin Li, Satoshi Nagata, Atsushi Harada and Hirohito Suda
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:57
  9. This article investigates the performance of cellular networks employing distributed antennas in addition to the central antennas of the base station. Distributed antennas are likely to be implemented using re...

    Authors: Stefan Schwarz, Robert W Heath Jr and Markus Rupp
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:54
  10. This article considers uni- and bidirectional communication in the half-duplex Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay channel. Assuming perfect channel state information at all nodes and the use ...

    Authors: Lennart Gerdes, Maximilian Riemensberger and Wolfgang Utschick
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:43
  11. In conventional decode-and-forward (DF) one-way relay systems, a data block received at the relay node is discarded, if the information part is found to have errors after decoding. Such errors are referred to ...

    Authors: Meng Cheng, Khoirul Anwar and Tad Matsumoto
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:34
  12. In this article, we design, analyze and implement a network coding based scheme for the problem of transmitting multiple unicast streams from a single access point to multiple receivers. In particular, we cons...

    Authors: Asaf Cohen, Erez Biton, Joseph Kampeas and Omer Gurewitz
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:25
  13. We study the transmission problem in a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system consisting of several distributed transmitters and a common receiver. Assuming partial channel state information ...

    Authors: Chongbin Xu, Jianwen Zhang, Fuchun Zheng and Li Ping
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013 2013:22
  14. In this article, we present a practical coordinated multipoint (CoMP) system for LTE-Advanced. In this CoMP system, cooperation is enabled for cell-edge users via dynamic switching between the normal single-ce...

    Authors: Helka-Liina Määttänen, Kari Hämäläinen, Juha Venäläinen, Karol Schober, Mihai Enescu and Mikko Valkama
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2012 2012:247