Scope

While multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) systems are now increasingly considered as a key technology to improve the performance and capacity of wireless communications over conventional single antenna systems, the concept of cooperative communications has more recently emerged as a solution to exploit the potential MIMO gains on a distributed scale. In a cooperative communication environment, different nodes can share resources to distribute the phases of transmission and/or processing, and each terminal can be considered as a potential relay.

This new paradigm allows the exploitation of both the multiplexing capability and the spatial diversity typical of MIMO schemes in a distributed way. Cooperative communications can also be used to simplify routing problems and extend the connectivity of the whole network. Although such concepts are progressively being introduced in wireless standards, many challenges remain, for both MIMO and cooperative communications. In particular, these techniques require a deep interaction between different research fields (e.g., channel modelling, transmission/coding, multiple access, and routing) most of them covered by COST Action 2100 “Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications”.

The goal of this first COST 2100 Workshop is to gather researchers and industrial partners to share the latest results in the various fields of MIMO and cooperative communications, covering the gamut from antennas and propagation to signal processing and network aspects, with applications to MIMO systems, multi-hop cellular networks, ad hoc networks, wireless multi-sensor networks (including UWB networks), vehicle-to-vehicle systems, and other techniques.

We seek full papers, from both COST2100 participants and researchers belonging to Institutions not participating to COST2100.

List of topics

- Relay/multi-hop and MIMO channel characterization
- Shadowing correlation models
- MIMO and virtual MIMO channel sounding and modelling
- Frequency-dependent channel models
- Space-time coding and spatial multiplexing
- MIMO performance with partial and imperfect CSI
- Low complexity MIMO receivers
- MIMO and distributed cross-layer design
- MIMO systems with energy constraints
- Multiple access and protocol design for MIMO systems
- Distributed diversity
- Performance analysis of distributed MIMO techniques
- Multi-hop techniques
- Macro-diversity techniques
- Cooperative routing and scheduling strategies
- Resource allocation and management
- Network coding
- Interference aspects
- System and network capacity with multi-user MIMO