Abstract: In a network comprising a signal forwarding node, a pre-coding code book generating method, wherein the method comprises: generating a pre-coding code book, wherein the pre-coding code book comprises at least one pre-coding code word corresponding to the signal forwarding node, and the pre-coding code word comprises one or more antenna beamforming weights; and communicating the pre-coding code book to a user equipment.

Abstract: A communication system including: a first device that includes first and second units and a first encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a second device that includes a third unit communicating data with the second unit, a fourth unit, and a second encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a third device that includes a fifth unit communicating data with the first or third unit, a sixth unit, and a third encapsulation unit encapsulating data; and a fourth device that includes a seventh unit communicating data with the first or third unit, an eighth unit communicating data with the fifth unit, and a fourth encapsulation unit encapsulating data; wherein at least two of the first to fourth devices include control units that control the units that the at least two of the first to fourth devices have, so as not to transfer received data to other devices.

Abstract: A method for relaying performed by a relay station is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from a source station through at least one receive antenna, defining a connection structure between the at least one receive antenna and at least one transmit antenna, processing the signal by using a midcoding matrix, and transmitting the processed signal to a destination station through the at least one transmit antenna. Quality of signal transmission can be enhanced.

Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication system and a method of performing communication in the same. The wireless communication system includes a terminal configured to classify all subcarriers into a first group and a second group and allocate subcarriers of the first group to first symbols and subcarriers of the second group to the first symbols again to generate and transmit a first transmission signal, a base station configured to allocate the subcarriers of the first group to second symbols and the subcarriers of the second group to third symbols to generate and transmit a second transmission signal, and a relay configured to receive the first and second transmission signals and perform maximum likelihood (ML) determination of frequency domain signals of the first and second transmission signals to estimate the first to third symbols.

Abstract: A method between terminals in a cooperative UWB pulse telecommunications system including a source terminal, a relay terminal, and a recipient terminal, the method including: transmitting, at the source terminal, a data symbol for the recipient terminal as a source signal constituted by a sequence of identical frames, the sequence corresponding to a symbol time, and each frame containing a pulse that is position-modulated by a PPM modulation alphabet; receiving, at the relay terminal, the source signal; detecting, at the relay terminal, a modulation position of a pulse in at least one frame of the source signal, referred to as the first position; transmitting, at the relay terminal, a relayed signal containing, in at least one predetermined subsequent frame of the symbol time, a pulse of which a position, referred to as a second position, is obtained from the first position by a permutation of the PPM modulation alphabet.

Abstract: A method is performed by an intermediate device in a multi-hop wireless network. The method includes receiving a transmission to forward to another device and synchronizing with the transmission based on a format of the transmission. The method further includes selecting a resource portion of the transmission based on information included in the transmission or information previously received, and inserting a signal in the selected resource portion of the transmission. The method also includes forwarding the transmission that includes the signal to the other device.

Abstract: A broadcast retransmitting method, a broadcast retransmitting apparatus, a relay apparatus and a broadcast retransmitting system using the same, are provided. The broadcast retransmitting apparatus includes a demodulation unit which receives and demodulates a modulated broadcast, a modulation unit which modulates the demodulated broadcast, a spectrum sensing unit which detects an available band through spectrum sensing, and a control unit which retransmits the modulated broadcast to at least one surrounding apparatus.

Abstract: A relay device for relaying wireless communication between a transmission device and a reception device includes a buffer configured to temporarily store first data that is a relay object so that the first data is retransmitted to the reception device, a buffer control unit configured to restrict the first data from being stored in the buffer when, based on information acquired using a signal fed back from the reception device, it is determined that a chance of retransmitting the first data is low, and a retransmission request unit configured to request the transmission device to retransmit the first data when the first data is not stored in the buffer and the first data is to be retransmitted to the reception device.

Abstract: A wireless relay apparatus relaying wireless communication between a transmission station and a receiving station includes M (M is an integer >1) receiving antennas receiving a radio signal from the transmission station, a signal processing section performing orthogonal transformation and phase rotation on M received signals received by each of the receiving antennas as an input signal so as to obtain M output signals having a same average power level, and M transmission antennas individually transmitting the M output signals obtained by the signal processing section to the receiving station.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can describe a method for communicating. The method for communicating can include a step for identifying characteristics of a communications channel, a step for identifying a set of nonlinear functions used to generate waveforms, a step for assigning a unique numeric code to each waveform, a step for transmitting a numeric sequence as a series of waveforms, a step for receiving the series of waveforms, and a step for decoding the series of waveforms.

Abstract: Frequency and phase of an output signal is adjusted to track an input signal. A control signal is adjusted to control a frequency of an oscillating signal from which the output signal is derived. In some aspects the frequency of the oscillating signal is adjusted by reconfiguration of reactive circuits coupled to an oscillator circuit. Phase of the output signal may be adjusted based on comparison of the oscillating signal with an adjustable threshold. For example, the adjustable threshold may comprise an adjustable bias signal for a transistor circuit whereby the oscillating signal is provided as an input to the transistor circuit and the output of the transistor circuit provides the output signal.

Abstract: A relay apparatus includes: a transfer unit to transfer data from a preceding-stage communication apparatus to a subsequent-stage communication apparatus; a receiving unit to receive abnormality information indicating an abnormality of the data transferred by the transfer unit from the subsequent-stage communication apparatus; and a switching unit to switch a transfer destination of the data by the transfer unit on a basis of the abnormality information received by the receiving unit.

Abstract: A base station repeater station pair, comprising: a base station (1) having an input for a broadcast signal (s(t)) and being arranged to transmit, in use, a transfer signal over a link (3) using electromagnetic (EM) radiation; and a repeater station (2) arranged to receive, in use and through EM radiation, the transfer signal from the base station (1) and from the transfer signal broadcast the broadcast signal using EM radiation, in which the link (3) between the base station (1) and the repeater station (2) over which the transfer signal is passed in use comprises a dual polarised link, whereby the base station (1) is arranged to transmit the transfer signal over the link (3) with two different polarisations, and the repeater station (2) is arranged to receive the transfer signal from the link as two differently polarised versions. Also disclosed area base station and a method of using the above.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory apparatus includes non-inversion repeaters that non-invert data and output the inverted data; and inversion repeaters that invert data and output the inverted data. The non-inversion repeaters or the inversion repeaters are arranged on a first data line and a second data line at a predetermined distance, respectively, which are parallel with each other and the most adjacent to each other and the non-inversion repeater or the inversion repeater is arranged at first positions corresponding to the first data line and the second data line, respectively. The non-inversion repeaters are arranged on one of the first data line and the second data line while the inversion repeaters are arranged on the other first data line and the second data line, at second positions except for the first arrangement positions of positions corresponding to the first data line and the second data line, respectively.

Abstract: A wire-based infrastructure capable of delivering high data rates is described herein. A transmission system, reception system, and/or repeater uses wire-mapping code matrices to reduce interference in multi-wire cables to increase the data rate provided by such multi-wire cables. More particularly, code mapping matrices are applied to transmission and/or received input signals to generate a mapped signal for each output wire or corresponding to each input wire such that each mapped signal comprises a different combination of all of the input signals. Different ones of the wire-mapped signals are ultimately transmitted on different wires. In so doing, the present invention facilitates crosstalk reduction, and therefore, provides a technique that increases the data rate available on multi-wire cables.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for transmission of commands or command combinations via a communication link by coded frequency-shift keying. Each command or command combination is associated with one frequency pair. When a command changes from a preceding command or command combination to a subsequent command or command combination, one frequency (which will be the first to be transmitted) in the frequency pair of the subsequent command or command combination is chosen as a function of at least one other associated frequency pair.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus which can correct error flexibly without wasting consumed resources while maintaining the improvement of reliability resulted from error correction.

Abstract: A telecommunications satellite payload processing system having one or more identical generic integrated processor modules is provided. The number of integrated processor modules can be selected in accordance with the antenna and bandwidth characteristics of a specified mission uplink and downlink in relation to the characteristics of the integrated processor module.

Abstract: An asset tracking unit, system, and method. The asset tracking unit, system, and method may include at least one transceiver having communicative connections with at least one SATCOM network and at least one GPS network via at least one antenna, wherein tracking information for at least one asset associated with the at least one transceiver is received from the GPS network and is communicated to the SATCOM network, a first link that provides a multi-code one of the communicative connections between the at least one transceiver and the at least one SATCOM network, and a second link that provides a multi-channel one of the communicative connections between the at least one transceiver and he at least one GPS network. The unit system and method may additionally include at least one remote operations center remote from an asset to be tracked, wherein the asset to be tracked is geographically associated with the central processing unit.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus wherein the buffer size can be reduced without increasing the overhead of signalings. In this apparatus, a buffer (201) stores transport data. A radio receiving part (206) receives a response signal responsive to a transport data transmitted by the local apparatus; a response signal responsive to a transport data transmitted by another wireless communication apparatus; and relay data. A determining part (208) determines the smaller one of the two numbers: the number of ACK signals responsive to the transport data transmitted by the local apparatus and the number of ACK signals responsive to the transport data transmitted by the other wireless communication apparatus. The buffer (201) deletes transport data the number of which is equal to the difference between the number of ACK signals responsive to the transport data transmitted by the local apparatus and the number determined by the determining part (208).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a long-reach Ethernet system. The system includes a first Ethernet device and a second Ethernet device which communicate with each other, and a relay; wherein one of the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device is a conventional Ethernet device, and the other one of the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device is a conventional Ethernet device or a long-reach Ethernet device; the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device communicate with each other via the relay; and the relay is adapted to transform conventional Ethernet data into long-reach Ethernet data and transform long-reach Ethernet data into Ethernet data. The present invention can realize the communication of two Ethernet devices when at least one of the two Ethernet devices is a conventional Ethernet device and a working distance between them is longer than 100 meters.

Abstract: A powerline network system having data relay function includes a plurality of power monitoring zones mutually connected with a powerline network and at least one repeater. Each of the power monitoring zones has at least one power monitoring device. The repeater is connected with each power monitoring device in two adjacent power monitoring zones through powerlines and has a first and a second relay units. The first and second relay units employ two different sets of transmitting and receiving bands to fetch data contained in powerline signals transmitted by each power monitor in adjacent power monitoring zones. The data are received by a relay unit are modulated with different transmitting band and then transmitted to powerlines of another power monitoring zone. The repeaters are not required to be serially connected to the powerlines, and incorrect data read can be also eliminated.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for a communication system (100) using a driver block (200) are described. The driver block includes memory having programmable non-volatile memory cells for storing configuration settings associated with operation of the driver block (200). The driver block (200) is programmable for a selected interface protocol for operation in an adaptive equalization mode to obtain an adaptive equalization value. The adaptive equalization value is stored as a fixed equalization value for operating the driver block in a fixed equalization mode. The driver block may be used as a serial link driver interface.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reduces an overhead caused by an operation transition gap in a Relay Station (RS) of a relay wireless communication system. The method includes identifying a signal delay time with an upper node. A transmission/reception operation transition time is determined through a negotiation with the upper node. An idle time is identified. An overhead caused by a transmission/reception operation transition is determined with consideration of a start time point of an Uplink (UL) subframe dependent on the signal delay time, the transmission/reception operation transition time, and the idle time. And communication is performed considering the overhead. The start time point of the UL subframe is set earlier than a start time point of a UL subframe of the upper node in consideration of the idle time.

Abstract: A repeater environment is provided operative to deploy a feedback cancellation loop that is adaptively coupled with an antenna array such that a selected metric can be derived by deploying a selected filter bank having an automatic gain control operative to process the signal on a bin by bin basis and the derived metric can be applied to the antenna array and feedback cancellation loop combination to improve signal integrity and amplification. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary repeater environment comprises, a transmitter, a receiver, an equalized feedback cancellation loop circuitry comprising a filter bank, the cancellation loop being operatively coupled to an antenna array. In the illustrative implementation, the feedback cancellation loop can receive signals as input from a cooperating antenna array and provide output signals such as a feedback leakage signal to a cooperating antenna array.

Abstract: A method is performed by an intermediate device in a wireless network. The method includes estimating a first hop channel state based on a transmission originating from a first device. The method further includes estimating an end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio base on a transmission associated with a second device. The method also includes adapting a filter or an amplifier of the intermediate device based on the first hop channel state and the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio.

Abstract: A wireless signal relay method comprises: receiving a wireless signal transmitted by mapping a first signal to be relayed in a repetitive manner to a plurality of wireless resources; generating a combined signal by combining signals repetitively mapped as the first signal to be relayed; and transmitting the combined signal.

Abstract: An approach is provided for relaying signals. A signal is received over a communication link and demodulated. Soft symbols are estimated based on probability information corresponding to the demodulated signal. The demodulated signal is remodulated based on the soft symbols. A relay signal is output based on the remodulated signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channels through a wireless backhaul in an OFDM-based communication system including relay nodes is provided. A method for transmitting a control channel includes arranging control resources for at least one receiver; sorting the control resources and null resources in a control channel region; rearranging the control resources to be distributed and the null resources to be adjacent to the distributed control resources; and mapping the control resources and null resources to the control channel region.

Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods disclosed herein provide for tracking of objects, aircraft, vehicles, and ground equipment in a tracking area, such as an airspace and/or an airport terminal area. One embodiment of a tracking system of the present disclosure comprises a signal monitoring component adapted to communicate with an object, such as an aircraft, when the object enters the tracking area. The signal monitoring component is adapted to transmit a monopulse beacon query signal to the object and receive a monopulse beacon response signal from the object. The tracking system further comprises an interface component adapted to process the received monopulse beacon response signal from the object, initialize a beacon transponder on the object, and assign a network address to the object.

Abstract: Provided is a high-precision and highly functional digital protective relay device and a data transmission device for a digital protective relay device, by enabling transmission of large amounts of system electrical quantity data. The data transmission device for a digital protective relay device, the transmission device comprising: an analog/digital conversion portion 6, which, after sampling a system electrical quantity signal acquired from an electric power system at m times the fundamental frequency f0 (m>12) thereof, performs conversion into n-bit digital data (n>12); a data processing portion 7, which converts m sampling data of n bits with frequency m·f0, obtained by the analog/digital conversion portion, into k sampling data with frequency k·f0 (k?m) at or below the former frequency; and a transmitting portion 8, which transmits k sampling data obtained by the data processing portion to another protective relay device in a prescribed transmission format.

Abstract: Even when an amplifier has a comparatively narrow linear region in a terminal, it is possible to suppress degradation of the transmission characteristic by using single-carrier transmission between the terminal and a relay device while using multi-carrier transmission between the relay device and a base station on an uplink of a communication system. The relay station (1) includes: a single-carrier signal receiving portion (12) which receives a single-carrier signal from the terminal and performs signal processing; a converting portion (13) which converts a time region symbol output from the single-carrier signal receiving portion (12) into a frequency domain symbol; and a multi-carrier signal transmitting portion (14) which makes the symbol converted by the converting portion (13) to be a multi-carrier signal and transmits the multi-carrier signal to the base station.

Abstract: A repeater for regenerating signals communicated along a telecommunication line uses a constellation providing a sufficiently high constellation density to ensure that regenerated signals are spectrally compatible. In one exemplary embodiment, such a repeater is configured to implement a method comprising the steps of: receiving first data signals from a first telecommunication line segment; demodulating the first data signals thereby recovering digital data using a constellation that provides a first constellation density; modulating second data signals with the digital data; transmitting the second data signals across a second telecommunication line segment that is bound within a cable; selecting a second constellation density for use in the modulating step such that the second data signals are spectrally compatible with other signals transmitted across a third telecommunication line segment bound within the cable, wherein the second constellation density is higher than the first constellation density.

Abstract: Repeaters, event those having digital processing, exist. The significant drawback of these digital repeaters is that the computational complexity or the processing speed has to be very high in order to guarantee, particularly when compensating for echo, that the necessary delay does not excessively impair the performance. The aim of the invention is to provide a structure of the repeater in which the computational complexity is reduced without this reduction having a negative effect on the performance during signal filtering and/or suppression of natural oscillation. To this end, the invention provides that in order to carry out bandpass filtering, adaptive pre-equalization and suppression of the natural oscillation, the components of the repeater in the uplink branch and downlink branch are arranged in a designated sequence, whereby duplex filters are used for coupling both repeater branches to the antennas.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data to a user agent. The method includes a relay node receiving information from an access node, the information containing the data that is to be transmitted to the user agent and control information that the access node will use to transmit the data to the user agent. The method further includes the relay node transmitting the data to the user agent at the time the access node transmits the data to the user agent, the relay node using the control information that the access node uses to transmit the data to the user agent.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for avoiding a collision. A collision may be avoided by allocating a first set of subframes to a backhaul link transmission, and allocating a second set of subframes to an access link transmission. In one example, the second set of subframes may be a non-overlapping set of subframes with respect to the first set of subframes. In a second embodiment, a collision may be avoided by receiving a data transmission from an evolved Node-B (eNB) and transmitting an uplink (UL) grant to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a first acknowledgement (ACK) to the eNB. The transmission may be in response to the received data transmission. The RN may avoid a collision by further transmitting an automatic ACK to the WTRU and transmitting a second UL grant to the WTRU. In a third embodiment, a collision between an access link transmission and a backhaul link transmission may be avoided by detecting a collision and determining an interface priority based on a collision occurrence type.

Abstract: The present invention provides a joint analog network coding and relay method, a reception method, a base station, and a user equipment for use in a cellular network with a wireless relay. Said relay method comprises steps of: receiving information signals from a plurality of base stations eNB; sampling and ADC the received signals; analog network coding the analog signal levels carrying the information signals from the plurality of eNBs; forwarding symbols after being analog network coded; and receiving the forwarded symbols and converting the symbols into the information signals. Wireless relay joint with analog network coding is a low-cost, low-complexity solution which could improve the service transmission performance when UE is at the cell edge, and increase the cell coverage.

Abstract: A relay apparatus 30 issues a new sub-address at a timing when mobile phones (10a, 10b) requested content from a CP server apparatuses (20a, 20b), that is, at a timing when a sub-address is required. The content specified by this sub-address is distributed from the CP server apparatuses via the relay apparatus (30) to the mobile phones. In system of the present invention it is possible to utilize the same sub-address many times for different content items. It is therefore possible to avoid increasing the number of digits of the sub-address as well as the complexity of the sub-address structure, in a case where the types of content or the number of content items increases.

Abstract: A message is efficiently relayed in a cut-through mode to a communication line of the transmission destination of a transmission rate higher than that of the communication line of the recipient while preventing the state that there is no data to be transmitted. A vehicle-mounted relay connection unit is used to relay messages received through first CAN communication lines to a second CAN communication line of a transmission rate higher than that of the first transmission lines in a cut-though mode.

Abstract: A device and a process which enable use of transmission diversity in transmission to a receiving station when wirelessly relaying wireless signals from a transmitting station to the receiving station. A reception antenna RA in a wireless relay device (RS) receives from the transmitting station such as a base station (BS) a signal in which data signals are respectively allocated to carriers at adjacent radio frequencies. The wireless relay device performs space frequency block coding (SFBC) of the received signal. Then, the wireless relay device transmits SFBC-encoded signals through two transmission antennas SA0 and SA1 to the receiving station such as a mobile station (MS).

Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system which may easily identify information transmitted from each of detecting devices without registration of identification information of the detecting devices and a transponder thereof are provided. A display is disposed in a distal end of the transponders all connected in series through a cable. Each of the detecting devices detects conditions in a predetermined portion of a vehicle and transmits vehicle information including measurement results, its own identification information and the number of transmissions. Each of the transponders determines whether the vehicle information transmitted from the detecting devices is received or not based on the identification information of the detecting devices registered in advance, and transmits the vehicle information to the transponder connected to the transmitting side or the display, when it determines that the vehicle information is to be received.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments taught herein, a multi-band MIMO repeater is configured to translate normal wireless mobile bands into other frequency bands in the physical layer. An advantageous, multi-hop repeater chain includes two or more such repeaters, for propagating downlink signals from a base station, and for propagating uplink signals to the base station. Each such repeater may use paralleled homodyne structure transceivers for better SNR, spectrum combiners for uplink signal aggregation, spectrum separators for downlink signal de-aggregation, water mark signal inserters for optimization, and, among other things, spectrum analyzers for frequency band selection. In at least one such embodiment, a multi-hop repeater chain is configured for MIMO operation in an LTE Advanced or other MIMO network, to deliver high data rate over larger distances—e.g., further away from cell base stations.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device for constructing a pilot signal for use in a wireless repeater where the pilot signal is added to a transmit signal includes one or more pilot generators. Each pilot generator generates a carrier pilot signal associated with a single carrier of the transmit signal and the carrier pilot signals generated by the one or more pilot generators are summed to generate the pilot signal. Each of the one or more pilot generators includes a pilot symbol unit providing multiple data symbols having a predetermined data structure as the carrier pilot signal, a pilot scrambler, a filter, a pilot power determination unit, and a cyclic prefix insertion unit for inserting a cyclic prefix, to the carrier pilot signal. In another embodiment, the pilot symbol unit providing multiple data symbols in frequency domain as the carrier pilot signal.

Abstract: A method, and a VSAT capable of being configured for such a method, of configuring a VSAT, the steps of which are setting, while an outdoor unit of the VSAT is at a configuration location, a maximum value of the adjustable gain of the up-converting device and transmitting, from an operating location that is separate from the configuration location, transmission signals to the satellite at the transmission frequency and with a gain value of at most the maximum value of the adjustable gain set at the configuration location.

Abstract: A method for estimating a feedback channel for a wireless repeater uses frequency domain channel estimation on samples of a pilot signal and samples of a receive signal. The pilot signal samples may be delayed to align the largest channel tap to a given reference time. A time domain feedback channel is generated by retaining both the causal taps and the non-causal taps of the channel estimate.

Abstract: A relay station in a wireless communication system is configured to relay communications between the base station and a plurality of subscriber stations. The relay station includes at least one antenna configured to transmit and receive data and control information. The relay station also includes a controller coupled to the antenna. The controller is configured to transmit control information to a subscriber station during a first set of symbols in a relay station to subscriber station (RS-to-SS) subframe. The controller also switches the antenna to a receive mode; and receives control information during a second set of symbols in the RS-to-SS subframe.

Abstract: A bidirectional repeater and data multiplexer for serial data has A-side 12C port devices A1-A4 coupled to comparators 302-308 and pull-downs to ground 316-322. Comparator outputs are coupled responsive to select lines S1-S4 of N:1 Select 310 to terminal A1 of bidirectional control 210 to control pull-down to non-zero low voltage Vp 206 at B-side device B. An inverting comparator 208 coupled to terminal B1 of bidirectional control 210 responds to input threshold voltage Vt less than low voltage Vp, to prevent data lockup due to data flowback to devices A1-A4. Output data from comparator 208 is coupled responsive to select lines S1-S4 of 1:N Select 312 to control pull-downs 316-322. This selectively repeats routing of device A1-A4 data to device B. Data from device B is selectively routed to pull-downs of devices A1-A4.

Abstract: A repeater having different input and output frequencies converts a signal received with the input frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal based on a local oscillating frequency for intermediate frequency conversion, and converts the first intermediate frequency signal to a second intermediate frequency signal by performing digital processing on the first intermediate frequency signal. Then, the repeater generates a first frequency tone signal that corresponds to a difference between the input and output frequencies, and generates a second frequency tone signal from the local oscillating frequency for intermediate frequency conversion and the first frequency tone signal. The repeater up-converts the second intermediate frequency signal to the output frequency based on the second frequency tone signal, and transmits the signal.

Abstract: The present invention is a system for and a method of providing one or more remote coverage areas for wireless communications. In an embodiment, a system for providing a remote coverage area for wireless communications comprises a local system that generates a first radio communication signal and a remote system located geographically remote from the local system. The remote system comprises a first converter that converts the first radio communication signal to a stream of data packets, a network that receives the stream of data packets from the first converter; and a second converter that receives the stream of data packets from the network and generates the remote coverage area by converting the stream of data packets to a second radio communication signal. The remote coverage area may be located indoors.

Abstract: Relay nodes relay data from a source node (110) to a destination node (130) in an asynchronous cooperative wireless communication system. Each relay node (120) includes a serial-to-parallel partitioner (212), a row selector (214), a cyclic shifter (216) and an SCBT modulator (218). The serial-to-parallel partitioner partitions symbols corresponding to received information into parallel blocks. The row selector selects one row of a coding matrix for each of the parallel blocks and constructs symbol blocks corresponding to the parallel blocks based on the selected row. The cyclic shifter shifts a cyclic delay of each of the symbol blocks and generates shifted symbol blocks corresponding to the symbol blocks. The SCBT modulator pads a guard interval to each shifted symbol block to remove the effects of asynchronous relay transmission.