Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff of Asynchronous Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks
Shuangqing Wei

TL;DR
This paper introduces asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes in wireless networks that achieve the same or better diversity-multiplexing tradeoff as synchronous schemes, even without perfect synchronization, thus enhancing performance and robustness.
Contribution
The paper proposes two asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes that match or surpass synchronous schemes in diversity-multiplexing performance without requiring symbol-level synchronization.
Findings
Asynchronous schemes achieve the same diversity order as synchronous ones.
Asynchronous space-time coding can outperform synchronous schemes at finite SNR.
Asynchronous systems can achieve higher mutual information with proper waveforms.
Abstract
Synchronization of relay nodes is an important and critical issue in exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks. In this paper, two asynchronous cooperative diversity schemes are proposed, namely, distributed delay diversity and asynchronous space-time coded cooperative diversity schemes. In terms of the overall diversity-multiplexing (DM) tradeoff function, we show that the proposed independent coding based distributed delay diversity and asynchronous space-time coded cooperative diversity schemes achieve the same performance as the synchronous space-time coded approach which requires an accurate symbol-level timing synchronization to ensure signals arriving at the destination from different relay nodes are perfectly synchronized. This demonstrates diversity order is maintained even at the presence of asynchronism between relay node. Moreover, when all relay nodes succeed in…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCooperative Communication and Network Coding · Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
