Abstract
One of the most efficient methods of exploiting space diversity for portable wireless devices is cooperative
communication utilizing space-time block codes. In cooperative communication, users besides
communicating their own information, also relay the information of other users. In this paper we
investigate a scheme where cooperation is achieved using two methods, namely, distributed space-time
coding and network coding. Two cooperating users utilize Alamouti space time code for inter-user
cooperation and in addition utilize a third relay which performs network coding. The third relay does not
have any of its information to be sent. In this paper we propose a scheme utilizing convolutional code based
network coding, instead of conventional XOR based network code and utilize iterative joint networkchannel
decoder for efficient decoding. Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart analysis is performed to
investigate the convergence property of the proposed decoder.
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