— We study the case of a single transmitter, which communicates to two co-located users, through an independent block Rayleigh fading channel. The co-location nature of the users...
— A novel cooperative multiple access protocol for packet speech communications is proposed. Cooperation is achieved through a relay node and by exploiting the silence periods du...
Amr El-Sherif, Andres Kwasinski, Ahmed K. Sadek, K...
Cooperation among bidders in traditional auctions is generally forbidden because it is harmful to the interests of sellers. However, in a new type of online auction, the group-buy...
Jian Chen, Xilong Chen, Robert J. Kauffman, Xiping...
— This paper examines the achievable performance gains when a particular class of cooperative relaying known as best-select is employed. In essence, best-select seeks to improve ...
In this work, multi-hop cooperative schemes for underwater sensor networks are studied and shown to be highly energy efficient. Also, the signal model for a multipath channel is d...