Topology-Aware Modulation and Error-Correction Coding for Cooperative Networks

User cooperation in wireless networks is inherently a cross-layer optimization problem. We identify a new direction for cooperative communications: i.e., in addition to the point-to-point communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver, the communication configuration should take the network topology into account. In this paper, we first propose a network modulation (NM) design that can transmit bits with different SNR requirements in a single symbol transmission. We then propose an error-correction coding assisted relay (EAR) scheme that is also configured according to the network topology. We study the performance of NM and EAR in both a three-node collinear network and a two-dimensional cellular network. Extensive simulations have been conducted, which demonstrate the substantial performance gain of the proposed schemes, in terms of both a higher network throughput and a lower bit-energy consumption. Comparing between NM and EAR, NM is more beneficial for the downlink performance and EAR is more beneficial for the uplink performance. Combining NM and EAR leads to a more efficient cooperative network. It is concluded that the topology-aware physical layer design will be a promising direction with many open issues for further study.

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