Implementation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol: Performance and Challenges in a Real Environment

Cooperative communication is an active area of research today. It enables nodes to achieve spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvement in system capacity and delay. Due to its immense potential, extensive investigations have been directed to closely examine its performance by means o...

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Main Authors: Thanasis Korakis, Zhifeng Tao, Shashi Raj Singh, Pei Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/598140