Cooperative coding is a communication paradigm that pools
distributed resources of different nodes in a network, such that
the nodes act like a collaborative system instead of greedy
adversarial participants. Cooperation has shown promise in
increasing throughput and providing better power efficiency in
wireless networks. In this work, we consider a basic example of
cooperative communication, relay coding, and consider methods to
improve the power efficiency by employing feedback and using power
control. We consider power control policies based on the degree of
transmitter channel knowledge. First, when perfect feedback is
available, we show results for the optimal power control policy
for any network code. We show that by using the decode and forward
relaying protocol, in some cases it is possible to approach the
universal lower bound on the outage probability for the block
fading relay channel. Second, when a finite rate of feedback is
available, we see that only a few feedback bits are necessary to
achieve most of the gains that the perfect feedback policy has
over constant power transmission. Based on these results, it is
evident that future network protocols should utilize feedback in
order to fully exploit the potential gains of network coding.
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