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Advances in base-station and mobile-station aided cooperative wireless communications: an overview

Advances in base-station and mobile-station aided cooperative wireless communications: an overview
Advances in base-station and mobile-station aided cooperative wireless communications: an overview
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of research interest in cooperative wireless communications in both academia and industry. This article presents a simple overview of the pivotal topics in both mobile station (MS)- and base station (BS)- assisted cooperation in the context of cellular radio systems. Owing to the ever-increasing amount of literature in this particular field, this article is by no means exhaustive, but is intended to serve as a roadmap by assembling a representative sample of recent results and to stimulate further research. The emphasis is initially on relay-base cooperation, relying on network coding, followed by the design of cross-layer cooperative protocols conceived for MS cooperation and the concept of coalition network element (CNE)-assisted BS cooperation. Then, a range of complexity and backhaul traffic reduction techniques that have been proposed for BS cooperation are reviewed. A more detailed discussion is provided in the context of MS cooperation concerning the pros and cons of dispensing with high-complexity, power-hungry channel estimation. Finally, generalized design guidelines, conceived for cooperative wireless communications, are presented.

1556-6072
57-69
Zhang, Rong
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Zhang, Rong
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Hanzo, Lajos
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Zhang, Rong and Hanzo, Lajos (2013) Advances in base-station and mobile-station aided cooperative wireless communications: an overview. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 8 (1), 57-69. (doi:10.1109/MVT.2012.2234254).

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In recent years, there has been an upsurge of research interest in cooperative wireless communications in both academia and industry. This article presents a simple overview of the pivotal topics in both mobile station (MS)- and base station (BS)- assisted cooperation in the context of cellular radio systems. Owing to the ever-increasing amount of literature in this particular field, this article is by no means exhaustive, but is intended to serve as a roadmap by assembling a representative sample of recent results and to stimulate further research. The emphasis is initially on relay-base cooperation, relying on network coding, followed by the design of cross-layer cooperative protocols conceived for MS cooperation and the concept of coalition network element (CNE)-assisted BS cooperation. Then, a range of complexity and backhaul traffic reduction techniques that have been proposed for BS cooperation are reviewed. A more detailed discussion is provided in the context of MS cooperation concerning the pros and cons of dispensing with high-complexity, power-hungry channel estimation. Finally, generalized design guidelines, conceived for cooperative wireless communications, are presented.

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Published date: March 2013
Organisations: Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 349392
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/349392
ISSN: 1556-6072
PURE UUID: 531b0a87-02ef-4799-8d41-f4617c05dacb
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214

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Date deposited: 04 Mar 2013 10:41
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 02:35

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Author: Rong Zhang
Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD

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