Elements of information theory
Elements of information theory
Information Theory and Reliable Communication
Information Theory and Reliable Communication
Diversity and multiplexing: a fundamental tradeoff in multiple-antenna channels
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Distributed space-time-coded protocols for exploiting cooperative diversity in wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in multiple-access channels
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Multiple-antenna channel hardening and its implications for rate feedback and scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
On the achievable diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in half-duplex cooperative channels
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Fading relay channels: performance limits and space-time signal design
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A simple Cooperative diversity method based on network path selection
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Foundations and Trends® in Networking
On the broadcast capacity of wireless networks with cooperative relays
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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A framework is developed for analyzing capacity gains from user cooperation in slow-fading wireless networks when the number of nodes (network size) is large. The framework is illustrated for the case of a simple multipath-rich Rayleigh-fading channel model. Both unicasting (one source and one destination) and multicasting (one source and several destinations) scenarios are considered. We introduce a meaningful notion of Shannon capacity for such systems, evaluate this capacity as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and develop a simple two-phase cooperative network protocol that achieves it. We observe that the resulting capacity is the same for both unicasting and multicasting, but show that the network size required to achieve any target error probability is smaller for unicasting than for multicasting. Finally, we introduce the notion of a network "scaling exponent" to quantify the rate of decay of error probability with network size as a function of the targeted fraction of the capacity. This exponent provides additional insights to system designers by enabling a finer grain comparison of candidate cooperative transmission protocols in even moderately sized networks.