Chapter 25: Cooperative Communication and CoMP

Learning Objectives

• Formulate user cooperation models and analyze the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff with cooperation
• Derive achievable rates for coded cooperation protocols using block-Markov encoding
• Analyze Cloud-RAN uplink capacity with oblivious relay processing and fronthaul compression
• Compare decode-and-forward versus compress-and-forward strategies in C-RAN architectures
• Derive information-theoretic achievable rates for cell-free massive MIMO with local processing
• Understand the scalability-performance tradeoff in user-centric cell-free architectures