Cooperative Wireless Communications

Ashutosh Sabharwal
Faculty Fellow
ECE Department
Rice University

The success of wireless communications is evident from its amazing product presence, from toy cars to cellular phones to MARS Rover. The popularity of wireless devices means larger consumer demand and newer applications in the future, both of them asking for more wireless bandwidth. Though wireless engineers have met each challenge with new discoveries, we are nearing the limits of current design paradigm in wireless system.

In this talk, we will discuss cooperative coding as a new mode of communication which holds the potential to achieve much higher throughputs than current wireless systems. By taking a system viewpoint, we will show how nodes can help each other by pooling their power, bandwidth and computational resources. The talk will end with engineering, algorithmic and theoretical challenges of converting this concept into a technology for future wireless products.

For additional information, contact:

Ashu Sabharwal at ashu@rice.edu

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