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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A Distributed MAC Protocol for Cooperation in Random Access Networks
WLAN is one of the most successful applications of wireless communications in daily life because of low cost and ease of deployment. The enabling technique for this success is the ...
Georg Böcherer, Alexandre de Baynast
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
STiCMAC: A MAC Protocol for Robust Space-Time Coding in Cooperative Wireless LANs
Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme. Compared with single relay base...
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Thanasis Korakis, Elza Erkip, S...
VTC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Cross-Layer Solutions for Cooperative Medium Access Control Protocols
— Recent studies have shown that designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol combined with a cooperative approach may improve the attainable network throughput, despite redu...
Alessandro Crismani, Fulvio Babich, Lajos Hanzo
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Cooperative Relaying in a Wireless LAN: Cross-Layer Design and Performance Analysis
—A key technology in cooperative communications is distributed space-time coding (DSTC) which achieves spatial diversity gain from multiple relays. A novel DSTC, called randomize...
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Elza Erkip, Shivendra S. Panwar
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative MAC for Rate Adaptive Randomized Distributed Space-Time Coding
—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...