Cooperative communication (CC) has been introduced as an effective technique to combat
the detrimental effects of channel fading by exploiting spatial diversity gain, resulting in …

Cooperative communication is a promising and practical technique for realizing spatial
diversity through a virtual antenna array formed by multiple antennas of different nodes …

Cooperative communication has drawn considerable attention from the wireless research
community given the efficient and optimal utilization of constraint resources in dynamic …

This article investigates distributed cooperative medium access control protocol design for
multihop wireless networks. Cooperative communication has been proposed recently as an …

In this paper, we study medium access control (MAC) protocol design for distributed
cooperative wireless networks. We focus on beneficial node cooperation by addressing two …

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 the past decade, there has been ever‐increasing research attention to user cooperation in
the wireless communication networks. The unique challenges of wireless networks such as …

Cooperative communication can obtain spatial diversity without using multiple antennas,
and thus achieve more reliable transmission or consume less power. Accordingly, a new …

Physical (PHY) layer cooperation in a wireless network allows neighboring nodes to share
their communication resources in order to create a virtual antenna array by means of …

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 …