Optimal Space-Time Codes for the Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Channel

In this work, we construct a family of space-time block codes for a half-duplex non-orthogonal Amplify-and-Forward fading cooperative channel with N relays. We show that our construction achieves the optimal Diversity-Multiplexing tradeoff with a block length of 4N .

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