… This article reviews progress in cooperative communication networks. Our survey … wireless
networks, but many of the results apply to cooperation in wireline networks and mixed wireless…

… wireless network, where information is to be transmitted from a source to a destination. Due
to the broadcast nature of the wireless … wireless link between any two nodes in the network is …

… Most recently, cooperative communication has been adopted in Long Term Evolution (LTE) …
wireless communication systems. In this article, we investigate cooperative communication …

… link and offer significant potential benefits to wireless communication networks. In contrast
to single-node transmissions, cooperative communications may involve multiple nodes …

… provided for uncoded cooperative communications in wireless networks with either decode-…
, but in general not optimum in cooperative communications. The optimum power allocation …

… cooperative communications. Cooperative techniques utilize the broadcast nature of … and
MAC layers, this article investigates how these gains can be attained in a wireless network. …

… NETWORK MODELS As further developed in the sequel, we consider cooperative
communications within two wireless network models. We focus the discussion on how the …

… This is not the case in the context of cooperative communication, in which a cooperative
link needs to be defined [13]. The cooperative link is composed of a set of transmitting nodes …

… connection between the cooperative communication system and sensor networks, and give
… from the cooperative communication system can be used to solve several sensor network …

… applications to ad-hoc and sensor networks. First of all, why are cooperative communications
in wireless networks possible? Note that the wireless channel is broadcast by nature. Even …