NEWCOM++ Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking

«Cooperation » is a not so recent concept, dating back to the eighties, but it received a lot of attention in the recent years. In a nutshell «cooperation » can be viewed as a « distributed » or « non colocated» version of multi-antenna communications. Even if fundamental questions like capacity regions for specifi c schemes are still open, cooperation is already considered by standardization bodies. The potential for cooperation can be exploited by means of different cooperation and (pre)coding strategies, leading to various levels of complexity. Moreover, the concept of cooperation is not only useful to provide higher rates or more diversity in communication systems, or to extend system coverage but it can also be applied for localization purposes or to render a communication system more secure. The different presentations of the workshop will try to cover these various aspects of cooperative communications and present recent results on these aspects.

Organiser:
Prof. Luc Vandendorpe, Univ. catholique Louvain, Belgium

Programme
13:50 – 13:55 Introduction
13:55 - 14:30 Cooperative Wireless channels: measurements, characterization and models
N. Czink, FTW, Austria
14:30 – 15:05 Randomised distributed space-time codes for cooperative wireless communication
X. Mestre, CTTC, Spain
15:05 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 15:55 Cooperative localization in wireless networks: algorithms and fundamental limits
M. Nicoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
15:55 – 16:30 Secure Communication over Parallel Relay Channels
A. Zaidi, UCL, Belgium
16:30 – 17:05 Full-diversity graph coding
D. Duyck, UGent, Belgium
17:05 – 17:40 Performance - Complexity aspects of Cooperative and MIMO Communications
P. Elia, Eurecom, France