Approximately universal, explicit DMT-optimal constructions for the dynamic-decode-and-forward cooperative wireless relay network

Cooperative relay communication is a promising means of wireless communication in which cooperation is used to create a virtual transmit array between the source and the destination, thereby providing the much-needed diversity to combat the fading channel. Consider a communication system in which there are a total of N + 1 nodes that cooperate in the communication between source node S and destination node D. The remaining (N − 1) nodes thus act as relays. We follow the literature in making the assumptions listed below concerning the channel. Our description is in terms of the equivalent complex-baseband, discrete-time channel.