Network-coded cooperation in wireless networks : theoretical analysis and performance evaluation / Dereje Hailemariam Woldegebreal. 2010
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Review of Cooperative Transmission Protocols
- Network-Coded Cooperation
- Thesis Motivation and Contributions
- Organization of the Thesis
- Introduction to Network Coding
- Network Coding in Error-Free Networks
- Linear Network Coding
- Network Coding and Channel Coding
- Summary
- Wireless Channels and Networks
- System Model of the Point-to-Point Transmission
- Wireless Channel Models
- Information Theory – Fading Channel Capacity
- Capacity of Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel
- Capacity of flat and slow fading channels
- Channel state information and channel capacity
- Ergodic fading channels
- Non-ergodic fading channels and outage probability
- Capacity vs. combining schemes
- Network-Coded Cooperation
- Cross-Layer Design in Cooperative Wireless Network
- Existing wireless network architecture
- Cooperative wireless network architecture
- Destination node receiver
- Partner node receiver
- Summary
- Outage Behavior of Network-Coded Cooperation
- System model
- Outage Probability Computation
- Numerical Results and Discussion
- Basic assumptions and parameters
- List of investigated protocols
- Numerical results
- Conclusion and remarks
- Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff
- Coverage Area Analysis
- Summary
- Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Introduction
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Energy Consumption of Point-to-Point Transmission
- General Assumptions in Network-Coded Cooperation
- Energy Consumption in Network-Coded Cooperation
- Good inter-user channel
- Bad inter-user channel
- Average energy consumption
- Average outage probability
- Numerical results
- Formulation as an optimization problem
- Energy Efficiency Formulation
- Summary
- Incremental Redundancy Network-Coded Cooperation
- System Model, Joint Network-Channel Coding
- Outage Behavior of Incremental Redundancy Network-Coded Cooperation
- Result and Discussion
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Contribution of the Thesis
- Conventional network-coded cooperation
- Energy consumption of network-coded cooperation
- Incremental redundancy network-coded cooperation
- Recommendations for Future Research
- Outage Probability Approximation