Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding

Discover a fresh approach for designing more efficient and cooperative wireless communications networks with this systematic guide. Covering everything from fundamental theory to current research topics, leading researchers describe a new, network-aware coding strategy that exploits the signal interactions that occur in dense wireless networks directly at the waveform level. Using an easy-to-follow, layered structure, this unique text begins with a gentle introduction for those new to the subject, before moving on to explain key information-theoretic principles and establish a consistent framework for wireless physical layer network coding (WPNC) strategies. It provides a detailed treatment of Network Coded Modulation, covers a range of WPNC techniques such as Noisy Network Coding, Compute and Forward, and Hierarchical Decode and Forward, and explains how WPNC can be applied to parametric fading channels, frequency selective channels, and complex stochastic networks. This is essential reading whether you are a researcher, graduate student, or professional engineer--

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The "Network-Aware Physical Layer" -- 1.3.Network Coding at the Network Layer -- 1.4. Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding -- 1.5. Historical Perspective -- 1.6. Practical Usage Scenarios -- 2. Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding: a Gentle Introduction -- 2.1. The 2-Way Relay Channel -- 2.2. Conventional, Network-Layer Network Coding, and WPNC Approaches -- 2.3. WPNC Relay Strategies -- 2.4. Unambiguous Decoding and Hierarchical Side-Information -- 2.5. Achievable Rates of HDF and JDF -- 2.5.1. Two-Source BPSK Hierarchical MAC -- 2.5.2. JDF Strategy -- 2.5.3. HDF Strategy -- 2.5.4. Achievable Rates -- 2.6.2WRC with QPSK: the Problem of Channel Parametrization -- 2.7. Hierarchical Wireless Network Example -- 3. Fundamental Principles and System Model -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Scenarios and System Model -- 3.2.1. Nodes -- 3.2.2. Radio Resource Sharing and Network Stages -- 3.2.3.Network with Cycles.

Note continued: 3.3. Core Principles of WPNC Network -- 3.3.1. Hierarchical Principle -- 3.3.2. Relay Processing Operation and Data Function -- 3.3.3. Classification of Node Processing Opera…