A Cooperative Communication Method Based on Turbo Codes.

Abstract: Cooperation diversity allows mobiles share their antennas to achieve uplink transmit diversity. A particularly powerful variation of user cooperation framework is coded cooperation, which partitions the code words of each mobile and transmits portions of each code word through independent fading channels. This paper mainly focuses on coded cooperation, and its improved framework, which is called space-time cooperation, and investigates the application of turbo codes in both frameworks. The analysis and simulation results show that both of the frameworks achieve impressive gains, and space-time cooperation improves the performance of coded cooperation in fast fading. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]