Introduction to Lattices and Its Applications in Compute-and-Forward Strategy

Abstract

The Compute-and-Forward (CF) strategy was proposed as a physical layer network coding (PNC) framework by Nazer and Gastpar in 2011. CF exploits interference to obtain higher rates between users in a network. This thesis focuses on studying the application of the lattice network coding (LNC) for CF strategy using maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding through four influential papers in the area.