Number of Cooperative Wireless Nodes to Achieve a Desired BER

A cooperative multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication has two phases: data exchange (information sharing) among source nodes, and cooperative transmission to the base station by these nodes. A bandwidth efficient method for implementing such a communication link is orthogonal distributed space---time Block Codes (ODSTBCs). It can provide full diversity with low decoding complexity, when all exchanged data correctly received by the...