—In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called VC-MAC that utilizes the concept of cooperative communication tailored for vehicular networks, especially for gateway downloadi...
Abstract—Network-coded cooperative communications (NCCC) is a new paradigm in wireless networks that employs network coding (NC) to improve the performance of CC. The core mechan...
Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Hanif D. Sh...
— This paper proposes a medium access control (MAC) algorithm, called Cooperative Diversity MAC (CD-MAC), which exploits the cooperative communication capability to improve robus...
Sangman Moh, Chansu Yu, Seung-Min Park, Heung-Nam ...
Cooperative diversity has been recently proposed as a way to form virtual antenna arrays that provide dramatic gains in slow fading wireless environments. However, most of the prop...
Aggelos Bletsas, Ashish Khisti, David P. Reed, And...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a new cooperative communication protocol, which achieves high bandwidth efficiency while guaranteeing full diversity order. The proposed sche...
Ahmed S. Ibrahim, Ahmed K. Sadek, Weifeng Su, K. J...