Integration of Network Coding in a Multi-Source Multi-Relay Cooperative Wireless Network

In this paper, we study the performance of a multisource multi-relay decode and-Forward (DF) cooperative wireless network. We evaluate different scenarios in multi-source multirelay that allow to analyse the trade-off between the coding gain and the diversity order. Simulation results show that the cooperative diversity order in these scenarios can be designed to maximize the network coding gain in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) versus signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).