ECE461/ECE455 - SELECTED TOPICS IN

SIGNALS AND COMMUNICATION

SYSTEMS

LECTURE
Cooperative Communications

Dr. Fatma Newagy

Prof. of Communications Engineering
Fatma_newagy@eng.asu.edu.eg
Today’s Lecture
• Introduction.
• Cooperative Communications:
• cellular networks.
• relay channel.
• performance evaluation.

• Conclusions
Introduction
• Transmit diversity generally requires more than one antenna at the
transmitter.

• However, many wireless devices are limited by size, costs and

hardware complexity.

• By using cooperative communication, multiple virtual-antenna

• transmitter can be considered, e.g. in a cellular networks.

• • Distributed diversity can be implemented by the use of relaying.

• A relay channel is a three terminal network consisting of a source, a

relay, and a destination.
“Cooperative” Communications
Cellular Cooperative Communication
Systems
Relay Channels
Amplify and Forward Method
Detect and Forward Method
Coded Cooperation Method
Coded Cooperation Method
Performance Evaluation: scenario #1
Performance Evaluation: scenario #2
Cooperative Communication in Fading
Channel
Network Coding Protocols: achievable
rates
Outage Probability vs. Power
Conclusions
• Advantages of cooperative communications are Performance gain,
Balanced Quality of Services, Infrastructure less deployment,
Reduced costs etc..

• Disadvantages are complex scheduling, increased overhead,

increased interference, extra traffic etc.

• Performance improvements due to user cooperation have also been

shown.