Multiple description coding (MDC) is an error resilient source coding scheme that creates multiple descriptions of the source with the aim of providing an acceptable reconstructio...
—In a distributed wireless network, it is possible to employ several relays and mimic a multiple antenna transmission system. In this paper we propose a MAC layer solution that a...
Pei Liu, Yuanpeng Liu, Thanasis Korakis, Anna Scag...
Mirror sites enable client requests to be serviced by any of a number of servers, reducing load at individual servers and dispersing network load. Typically, a client requests serv...
— The tolerable packet-loss ratio of an Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless networks varies according to the specific services considered. File transfer for example must be er...
Abstract--Two types of noise-free relay cascades are investigated. Networks where a source communicates with a distant receiver via a cascade of half-duplex constrained relays, and...