Cooperative communications is one of the promising techniques to enhance the
performance of wireless networks. The extent of performance improvement needs to be …

Cooperation in wireless networks has shown significant performance gains in comparison to
legacy wireless networks. Cooperative wireless protocols achieve such efficiency by …

Over the last decade cooperative communication in wireless sensor networks (WSN)
received much attention. A lot of works have been done to propose a MAC layer that …

Cooperative communication is an active area of research today. It enables nodes to achieve
spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvement in system capacity and delay …

Existing solutions for cooperation in wireless networks either require simultaneous
transmission of source and relay nodes or impose major modifications to original MAC …

Cooperative communications is a promising technology that tends to change the
conventional access and transmission schemes in wireless networks. By enabling additional …

One of the crucial challenges in practical wireless networks is how to provide robust
communication over fading channels. Recently, cooperative communications have emerged …

Extensive research has been done to achieve better throughput and reliability in wireless
networks, being mostly focused on multiple-input multiple-output systems. Recently …

Cooperative communication is regarded as a promising technology in future 5G wireless
networks to enhance network performance by exploiting time and/or space diversity via …

In this paper we propose a simple relay enabled medium access (SRMAC) protocol that
enables cooperative relay transmissions. Due to the wireless signal power attenuation with …