ACoRN Workshop on Co-operative Wireless Communications 2007

The First ACoRN Workshop on Cooperative Communications will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, on July 9-10 2007. It is a two day workshop, consisting of presentations by researchers and students, highlighted by plenary presentations by Petar Popovski of Aalborg University in Denmark. 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 reearch 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.