In this paper, we present a survey of cooperative diversity-enabled Medium Access Control
(MAC) protocols for Wireless LANs (WLANs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) …

This paper presents a new routing protocol called Secure and Energy Aware Routing
Protocol (ETARP) designed for energy efficiency and security for wireless sensor networks …

We compare the energy efficiency of some transmission schemes in wireless sensor
networks. By constraining the system to end-to-end throughput requirements, we assume …

Cooperative communication, which utilizes nearby terminals to relay the overhearing
information to achieve the diversity gains, has a great potential to improve the transmitting …

In this study, we analyse incremental cooperative communication for wireless body area
networks (WBANs) with different numbers of relays. Energy efficiency (EE) and the packet …

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency of cooperative communications in wireless
body area network (WBAN). We first analyze the outage performance of three transmission …

Cooperative communication, which utilizes neighboring nodes to relay the overhearing
information, has been employed as an effective technique to deal with the channel fading …

This paper considers energy efficiency of routing protocols in wireless sensor networks.
Many routing protocols for sensor network have been proposed, some of them tried to cope …

The rising cost of energy and increased environmental awareness have sparked a keen
interest in the development and deployment of energy-efficient communication technologies …

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency of an incremental relay based cooperative
communication scheme in wireless body area networks (WBANs). We derive analytical …