Grant: Strategic Projects - Group

Cooperative communication will be a key technique to enhance the data rate, network coverage (and hence reliability), and energy-saving performance in next generation broadband cellular wireless networks. The objective of this project is to develop advanced radio transmission and resource management techniques necessary for successful deployment of cooperative cellular wireless networks. The specific topics to be considered include advanced transceiver design and coding schemes for cooperative communications, joint relay selection and resource allocation techniques, medium access control and quality of service provisioning, and inter-cell cooperation schemes for cooperative cellular wireless networks. The scientific approach will be based on sound research principles involving literature survey, and analytical modeling combined with extensive numerical analysis and computer simulation. The outcome of the proposed research has the potential of making ground-breaking impact in shaping the broadband wireless industry of the future. It will have direct applications to the evolving next generation cellular wireless systems such as Third Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) and multihop relaying WiMAX (IEEE 802.16j). As such, the results anticipated from this proposed research will be key strategic enablers for leading players of the Canadian telecommunications industry. Furthermore, training of skilled graduate students and technology transfer to the leading Canadian telecommunications industries is a major strength of our proposal.