A novel network-channel coded cooperation scheme

A novel network-channel coded cooperation scheme is proposed for wireless cooperative communications systems. The proposed scheme provides a solution to increase the transmission rate and/or improve the error performance. To enhance the system performance over the adverse block fading channels, network coding is combined in coded cooperation. We analyze the outage probability of the proposed scheme, and show that it achieves a full diversity order. Numerical evaluations reveal that the proposed scheme outperforms the classical schemes and the inter-user channels conditions have important effects on performance of cooperation communication systems.