1. Cooperative Communications and Distributed Antenna Arrays
Jointly organized with:
Linkoping University
KTH – Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
ENST – École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
A Course of the European School of Antennas Ph. D. program
September 28 - October
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Castelldefels – Barcelona

2. How cooperation can help
Growing interest in networks requiring multi-hop wireless transmissions such as mesh networks, sensor networks, or vehicular networks
Multi-hop wireless transmission very inefficient due to poor design at PHY, Link and Network layers.
Cooperative communications addresses the problem of exploring theoretical limits of multi-hop transmission and providing signal processing techniques to achieve them.
Theoretical foundation: the relay channel S R D X X1 Y Y1

3. Cooperative Scenarios
Next generation cellular networks
Use relays are part of the network infrastructure to increase service availabilty, by complementing shadowed links with street-level relays
Wireless mesh networks
Use cooperative relaying to provide efficient multi-hop wireless transmission
Wireless network coding as an extension of cooperative relaying for multiple sources / destinations

4. Preliminary Course Outline
Background material
Multiple antenna signal processing
Multiuser information theory
Mathematical tools
Analysis of cooperative relaying techniques
Decode and forward, amplify-based techniques, compress and forward
Achievable rates, diversity, power allocation
Distributed coding
Distributed codes
Coded cooperative systems
Network coding for wireless networks

5. Castelldefels - Barcelona
Instructors
Linkoping University
Erik G. Larsson
KTH – Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Mats Bengtsson
ENST – École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
Jean-Claude Belfiore
CTTC
Christian Ibars
Mònica Navarro
Stephan Pfletschinger
Mischa Dohler
Jesus Alonso-Zárate
Venue
CTTC
Castelldefels - Barcelona