IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) guarantees fair transmission opportunity to stations. Channel occupation of low rate stations in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area...
Wireless relays extend coverage, improve spectral efciency, and enhance reliability and rates of wireless cellular communication systems. In this work, we introduce the fundamental...
Natasha Devroye, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Moli...
— Cooperative diversity obtains the spatial diversity gains created by sharing antennas of terminals in wireless networks. In this paper, adaptive amplify-and-forward (AF) cooper...
—The concept of cooperative relaying promises gains in robustness and energy-efficiency in wireless networks. Although protocols for cooperative relay selection were proposed re...
Helmut Adam, Christian Bettstetter, Sidi-Mohammed ...
Abstract—Many protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks perform poorly in situations when node cooperation cannot be enforced. This may happen because of the lack of global authorit...