Physical-layer network coding for wireless cooperative networks (Editorial)
Date
2010-10-28
Authors
Chen, Wen
Dong, Xiaodai
Fan, Pingyi
Hausl, Christoph
Li, Tiffany Jing
Popovski, Petar
Tao, Meixia
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Abstract
Cooperative communication is an intriguing topic that has
aroused a frenzy of heat in the wireless networking research.
The notion of cooperative communication is to enable transmit
and receive cooperation at the user level by exploiting
the broadcast nature of wireless radio waveform so that
the overall system performance including power efficiency
and communication reliability can be significantly improved.
However, due to the half-duplex constraint in practical
wireless relay systems, cooperative communication generally
suffers from loss in spectral efficiency. The inception of network
coding provides a powerful remedy for improving the
spectral efficiency and opens new possibilities for achieving
the end-to-end throughput optimality by allowing intermediate
network nodes to mix, demix, and remix the signals
received from multiple links for subsequent transmissions.
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BioMed Central
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Chen et al. Physical-layer network coding for wireless cooperative network. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Volume 2010, Article ID 693158