Cooperative communication has been shown to provide significant performance gains over
fading channels in wireless networks, as well as enhancement of the energy efficiency in …

We present a novel cross-layer approach in minimizing energy consumption for multi-hop
cooperative sensor networks, under the end-to-end reliability QoS requirement. Taking into …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cooperative communication represents a potential
candidate to combat the effects of channel fading by exploiting diversity gain achieved via …

Cooperative communications represent a potential candidate to combat the effects of
channel fading and to increase the transmit energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks …

Cooperative communication is a vital area of research in wireless sensor networks due to its
advantages for spatial diversity. Specifically, selective single relay cooperative …

In order to improve the energy saving performance of cooperative communication, a novel
power allocation solution, named Half Transmission Power Allocation Solution (HTPAS), is …

We investigate the problem of how to minimize the energy consumption in multi-hop
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), under the constraint of end-to-end reliability Quality of …

Cooperative communication with single relay selection is a simple but effective
communication scheme for energy-constrained networks. In this paper, we propose a novel …

In this letter, we propose a new metric for energy-efficient cooperative transmission in
wireless sensor networks (WSN) where the circuit energy consumption is taken into …

This paper investigates optimal relay selection and power allocation under an aggregate
power constraint for cooperative wireless sensor networks assisted by amplify-and-forward …