Cooperative Connectivity Models and Bounds for Wireless Relay Networks

......................................................................................................................III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.............................................................................................. IV TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................................................V LIST OF TABLES..............................................................................................................X LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................................... XI LIST OF ACRONYMS ................................................................................................. XVI LIST OF SYMBOLS ...................................................................................................XVIII CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................1 1.1 MOTIVATION........................................................................................................ 2 1.2 MOTIVATING EXAMPLE ....................................................................................... 5 1.3 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................... 6 1.4 CONTRIBUTIONS .................................................................................................. 8 1.5 PUBLISHED, SUBMITTED, AND PROPOSED MANUSCRIPTS .................................... 9 1.6 ORGANIZATION .................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER 2 BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................13 2.1 WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT.................................................................................. 13 2.1.1 Wireless Channel Model............................................................................... 14 2.1.2 Wireless Hardware Constraints..................................................................... 15 vi 2.2 RELAY CHANNELS ............................................................................................. 16 2.2.1 Channel Capacity and Information Theoretic Outage Probability ............... 16 2.2.2 Classical Channel Configurations................................................................. 17 2.2.3 Multiple Terminal Networks......................................................................... 21 2.3 DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES AND MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS ........................... 22 2.3.1 Diversity Techniques .................................................................................... 22 2.3.2 Multiple-Antenna Systems............................................................................ 23 2.3.3 Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff .................................................................. 25 2.4 COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY .................................................................................. 27 2.4.1 Classical Cooperative Diversity.................................................................... 27 2.4.2 Cooperative Coding Extensions.................................................................... 29 2.4.3 Non-Orthogonal Signaling Extensions ......................................................... 29 2.4.4 Multihop and Network Extensions ............................................................... 31 2.4.5 Selected Other Cooperative Diversity Literature.......................................... 31 CHAPTER 3 SYSTEM MODEL.................................................................................33 3.