Coding Techniques for Advanced Wireless Communication Systems

Motivated by the ever increasing demand of wireless communication for larger capacity and higher quality, wireless communication system grows from a single-pair point-to-point communication system to a multiple-transceiver pair communication network. Various new communication techniques, for example, cooperative communication, interference management, multi-carrier communication, are employed to enhance the system capacity and improve the communication quality. Even for some single-pair communication scenarios, due to the different quality demands for different types of information messages, more advanced coding schemes should be designed to provide more protection for more important information messages, for example, the system emergency message. This thesis proposes several coding schemes to address the above questions. More specifically, the proposed coding schemes are summarized as follows. Message-wise error protection is a new unequal error protection scheme where in a codebook some special messages are more protected than other ordinary messages. We propose the first practical coding scheme for message-wise error protection based on LDPC codes, where codeword flipping is emp