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A virtual MIMO path-time code for cognitive ad hoc networks

  • I. Wei Lai*
  • , Chia Han Lee
  • , Kwang Cheng Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) consisting of opportunistic links greatly elevate the networking throughput per bandwidth in future wireless communications. In this letter, we show that by encoding a data packet into several coded packets and transmitting in various time slots, the ene-to-end transmission in the CRN can be equivalently formulated as a physical-layer multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication problem. Two coding schemes are proposed in such a virtual MIMO scenario to enhance the end-to-end communication reliability by exploiting the path diversity. The closed-form expression of the theoretical error rate analysis validates that the proposed path-time codes can significantly improve the error rate performance.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6362128
Pages (from-to)4-7
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Communications Letters
Volume17
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
  • ad hoc network
  • cognitive radio network (CRN)
  • path-time code
  • space-time code

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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