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<p>Space-time coding and spatial diversity schemes enhance the performance of energy constrained multihop  clustered relay networks. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of techniques such as the decode-and- forward with cooperative diversity and the Alamouti space-time coding, which were primarily used in relay  multiple-input multiple-output communications, in distributed clustered two-hop and multihop relaying networks  consisting of single-antenna terminals.  Simulation results, in single carrier Rayleigh and Stanford University Interim channels for phase shift keyed  and quadrature amplitude modulation, show that the use of the decode-and-forward with cooperative diversity and the  Alamouti cooperative space-time coding schemes improve the error probability performance in a power constrained,  clustered multihop relaying network operating in a multipath fading environment.
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<br>Subjects: Coding theory; Space time codes; MIMO systems; Amplitude modulation; Signal processing; Digital techniques</div>
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Alexopoulos, Konstantinos</div>
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