— Extending lifetime of battery-operated devices is a key design issue that allows uninterrupted information exchange among distributed nodes in wireless networks. Cooperative co...
Thanongsak Himsoon, W. Pam Siriwongpairat, Zhu Han...
In this paper, the performance of the network coded amplify-forward cooperative protocol is studied. The use of network coding can suppress the bandwidth resource consumed by relay...
Zhiguo Ding, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah, Kin K. Leung
Node cooperation is an emerging and powerful solution that can overcome the limitation of wireless systems as well as improve the capacity of the next generation wireless networks....
Wei Chen, Lin Dai, Khaled Ben Letaief, Zhigang Cao
Due to the limited energy supplies of nodes in many applications like wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is crucial for extending the lifetime of these networks. This pape...
In wireless cooperative networks, the asynchronism between the relays can be a source of diversity which is similar in its essence to the multipath diversity of frequency selectiv...