In the Next Generation Networks (NGNs) users will carry multiple devices forming cooperative networks known as Personal Area Networks (PANs). Some existing technologies enable thi...
Abstract— Due to the rapid growth of personal communications, it is now believed that multi-hop topologies will certainly play a key role in forthcoming wireless communications s...
Wireless sensor networks are small, inexpensive and flexible computational platforms, that have found popular applications in various areas including environmental monitoring, he...
—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
Recent years have witnessed the pilot deployments of audio or low-rate video wireless sensor networks for a class of mission-critical applications including search and rescue, sec...