—In this paper a cooperative retransmission scheme for 802.11 WLANs is proposed. The mechanism allows stations with good channel to the access point to retransmit packets on beha...
—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
Relay-based cooperative communications can achieve spatial diversity gains, enhance coverage and potentially increase capacity. If considered for large networks, traditional relayi...