Second ACoRN Workshop on Co-operative Wireless Communications 2008

The Second ACoRN Workshop on Cooperative Communications will be held the Victoria University, Melbourne, on 16 July 2008.  The two day workshop consists of presentations by researchers and students, highlighted by plenary presentations by Prof Xiang-Gen Xia from the University of Delaware. It is then followed by a full day tutorial on the Thursday 17 July 2008 by Dr Mischa Dohler. It will bring together the leading researchers in Cooperative Wireless Communications in Australia to provide a comphrehensive overview of current research interests, and hopefully result in future collaborative links.

Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems are systems that seek to improve the link capacity and transmission reliability through cooperation between nodes or multi-user terminals. research in this area has recently attracted significant attention and it has become one of the most important research directions in wireless communications.

The workshop will provide a forum for Australian researchers to present and discuss recent research developments in the area of cooperative communications, such as the fundamental principles, analysis and design of cooperative communications, with special emphasis on advanced cooperative transmission and receiving techniques. The workshop will cover, but not be limited to:
- Cooperative relay algorithms: decode and forward, amplify and forward, compress and forward, distributed antenna arrays, parallel relaying, multi-hop transmission.
- Analysis of cooperative communication systems: Capacity analysis, outage performance analysis, diversity analysis, system performance analysis with varying degrees of channel state information.
- Coding techniques: cooperative space-time coding, soft-information relay, cooperative LDPC codes, differential cooperative coding, turbo codes.
- Advanced transmission techniques: relay selection, power allocation techniques.
- Advanced receiving techniques: iterative receivers, chanel estimations.
- Multi-terminal relay networks: spatial multiplexing, transmission precoding and interference cancellation at relays, MAC scheduling.