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CH 3 Cooperative Communication

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ECE423 :Advanced

Communication
systems

Supervised by

Dr :/ Somaya Abdel
Azeem ElFeshawy
Chapter 3: Cooperative Communications
Wireless channel model

• Channel fading effect degrades


performance.
• Diversity of different replicas
of signals.
Diversity techniques: (Time,
frequency, spatial).

❖ Demand for higher data


rates and better quality.
• Cooperative communications refer to a type of communication
system or technique that allows users to transmit each other's
messages to the intended destination.

Most cooperative A coordination phase is where users


Phase I exchange their own source data and control
communication messages with each other and the destination.
schemes involve
two transmission
A cooperation phase In this phase, the
phases : Phase II users cooperatively retransmit their messages
to the destination.
Cooperative communications

Users help each others


Types of Cooperative Communication
❖ For the implementation of cooperative communication, the three methods are most used:
amplify and forward, decode and forward, and coded cooperation methods.

1. Amplify and forward methods


• Each terminal in this method receives a noisy version
of the signal transmitted by another terminal.
• According to the method name, the terminal, after
receiving the signal from another terminal, amplifies it
and then retransmits it (to the destination node of the
transmission, e.g. the base station).
• The destination node combines the signal received
directly from the sender and retransmitted by the relay
and makes the final decision on the transmitted data bits.
1. Amplify and forward methods (AF Relaying)
• In this method, the signal is amplified with noise, but the situation that the
destination receives two independently faded versions of the signal improves
the detection of the information signal, improving the transmission quality.

• In this method it is assumed that the destination node knows the inter-user
channel coefficients to do optimal decoding. The mechanism of exchanging or
estimating this information must be included in the final implementation.
2. Decode and Forward methods (DF
Relaying)
In this method, the relay performs the detection
and decoding of the received bits from the source
and then retransmit those bits to the destination node.
• Relay node decodes the received signal, re-
encode it and then retransmit it to the
destination.
• The decoded signal at the relay may be
incorrect because
of approximation errors in the received signal.

➢ DF relaying has the advantage over AF


relaying by reducing the effects of additive
noise at the relay.
3. Coded Cooperation methods

Coded cooperation is a method that integrates cooperation into channel coding.


Coded cooperation works by sending different portions of each user’s code word via two independent
fading paths. The basic idea is that each user tries to transmit incremental redundancy to its partner.
Whenever that is not possible, the users automatically revert to a non-cooperative mode.

• The key to the efficiency of coded cooperation is that all this is managed automatically through
code design, with no feedback from the users.
COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
In cooperative networks may be single relay
or multiple relays.

A basic cooperation system consists of two users


transmitting to a common destination, One user acts as
the source while the other user serves as the relay and
the two users may interchange their roles as source
and relay at different instants in time.

In Phase I, the source user broadcasts its data


to both the relay and the destination and in Single relay Cooperation
Phase II, the relay forwards the source’s data
either by itself or by cooperating with the
source to enhance reception at the destination.
Illustration of multi-relay cooperative communication system
Illustration of cooperative system with multiple sources and relays
Application of Cooperative Communications
The key idea in user-cooperation is that of resource-sharing among multiple nodes in a
network. The reason behind the exploration of user-cooperation is that the willingness to
share power and computation with neighboring nodes can lead to savings of overall network
resources. The three novel applications are:-

Cognitive Radio

Wireless ad-hoc network

Wireless sensor network


1. Cognitive Radio
Cognitive radio is an emerging technology that
helps in the efficient utilization of the radio
spectrum.

The main part of cognitive radio system is


spectrum sensing and it is done using sensing
nodes that identify spectrum holes which are
underutilized by the primary users.

This method has the benefit of maximizing the signal


to noise ratio of the received signal to detect the
presence or absence of primary user’s signal.
2. Wireless Ad-hoc Network
This is self organizing and autonomous network without any pre-established infrastructure or
centralized controller. In this network randomly distributed nodes form a temporarily functional
network that supports seamless leaving or joining of nodes.
3. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained worldwide attention in recent years. The
network consist of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to cooperatively monitor
physical or environmental conditions such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion
or pollutants.
Cognitive Radio (CR)

Cognitive radio (CR)


technology in wireless
communication allows
unlicensed (secondary) users to
access the licensed (primary)
frequency bands without
interfering with the licensed
users to realize more effective
and reliable communication. Cognitive radio (CR) networks existing within a
primary network.
Cognitive Radio Functionalities
A simplified cognitive cycle includes four main
functions as follow:
a) Spectrum Sensing: Spectrum sensing detects and
shares the available spectrum without detrimental
interference with other users. cognitive radio networks
must find spectrum holes. And the most efficient and
effective way to detect spectrum holes is to detect
primary users.
b) Spectrum Management: Spectrum management
utilizes of an efficient spectrums among different
available spectrum to fulfill the requirements of the
user.
c) Spectrum Sharing: Spectrum sharing provides a fair
spectrum scheduling mechanism. It exhibits some
similarities to the classical media access control MAC
problems in current wireless systems.
d) Spectrum Mobility: It allows the secondary user
shifted to other available spectrum channels when
primary user required current one spectrum of
secondary user.
Cognitive Radio Functionalities
1. Spectrum Sensing

This refers to detecting spectrum holes accurately. Furthermore, it must be ongoing and
continuous such that whenever the PU re-accesses the spectrum, it indicates to CR nodes to
cease transmission immediately. It can be implemented via in-band sensing, out-of-band-
sensing, and geolocation databases.
It also helps to adjust additional parameters such as power levels, codes, and frequencies in
order to limit unwanted interference.

2. Spectrum Management and Decision

When multiple spectrum holes are distributed over a wide frequency range, spectrum
management involves selecting the best possible one.
The choice is made by considering transmit power, bandwidth, modulation schemes, coding
schemes, and scheduling. The choice also depends on Quality of Service (QoS) criteria for
the needs of CR communication, such as packet error rate, latency, and throughput.
3. Spectrum Sharing

This refers to the fair division of spectrum holes among different CR devices. It is based on
scheduling and may be performed in time, frequency, code, and even space dimensions.
It is also designed to avoid un- wanted intra-network interference. It can be centralized or
distributed.
Spectrum sharing can involve not only CR devices but also PU nodes. priority should
always be given to the PU.

4. Spectrum Mobility

This refers to the ability of CR nodes to hop among different spectrum holes seamlessly
depending on the conditions. These include PUs re-accessing the spectrum hole, adverse
channel conditions within the current frequency band.

• The transition between different spectrum holes is referred to as a spectrum


handoff.
Key benefits
Improved spectrum utilization: It allows a system
designer to extract every Hz (Hertz) out of the system
and allows efficient spectrum pooling.

Improved coverage: Coverage is improved with


the help of CRN which allows to communicate
information from one node to another node.

Avoid Jamming problems: With the help of spectrum sensing


and switching algorithms, CRN can avoid the jamming
problems.

Improved Quality of Service: It utilizes the available


spectrum with high signal to noise ratio (SNR).
Challenges
• Security: Wireless spectrum is an extremely important
resource, and unlicensed communication may interrupt the
operation of other radio devices within the network.
• Implementation difficulties: There are still many technical
difficulties in the implementation of CRN among hidden or
spread spectrum (unlicensed) primary users and licensed
primary users.
• Fading effects: Multipath fading affects the accuracy of
spectrum occupancy choice, sensing duration etc.
• Decision making: Decisions on availability of spectrum,
approach in channel selection and optimization of radio
performance are the main challenges in CRN.
Application of Cognitive Radio:

a) CRN in 5G wireless communication: The integration of CR in


5G networks will meet the capacity demands of spectrum.
b) CRN in cloud computing: computing using CRN is used in
various artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including expert
systems, natural language programming, neural networks, robotics,
and virtual reality (VR).
c) CR in wireless sensor network (WSN): CRWSN senses a signal
and collaboratively communicates its measured value continuously
over the available spectrum channels.
d) Green CRN: Cognitive Radio (CR) is proposed as an efficient
technology to meet the concept of Green communications
GOOD LUCK

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