On Building a Cooperative Communication System: Testbed Implementation and First Results

<p/> <p>We present the results from over-the-air experiments of a complete implementation of an amplify and forward cooperative communications link. Our custom OFDM-based physical layer uses a distributed version of the Alamouti block code, where the relay sends one of the branches of Al...

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Main Authors: Murphy Patrick, Sabharwal Ashutosh, Aazhang Behnaam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2009/972739