ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the implementation of multiple interpretations in multi-way relay channels with fading. It provides an approach based on estimate-and-forward applied network-coded two-way relay channels to forwards soft information at the relay with a rate of 1 b/sample. Network coding is a coding approach which can be utilized to enhance network capacity in comparison with conventional route procedure in a computer communication network. Network coding protocols, however, allow the relay nodes to combine the received packets from different nodes for information delivery. It is shown in that the maximum network throughput provided by the max-flow min-cut flow bound can be achieved by using network coding for the multicast case. Although network coding was originally proposed for use at the network layer, its numerous advantages have prompted academics to consider using it at other protocol layers.
