The use of convolutional product codes in cooperative communication systems

In this thesis work, the performances of cooperative communication systems employing convolutional product codes (CPCs) and serially concatenated convolution codes (SCCCs) are inspected in detail and compared to each other. Different combining methods at destination are proposed. One of these methods is based on the combination of bit probabilities on the other hand other method focuses combining the signals considering their signal to noise rations (SNRs). The effect of relay number on the system performance is inspected. Reduced complexity cooperative communication systems utilizing convolutional product codes are considered. The proposed systems are all iteratively parallel decodable and have low latency.