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 …

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) …

The cooperative communication approach promises improved throughput and delay
performance by effective use of spatial diversity in wireless ad hoc networks. The CoopMAC …

The concept of cooperative communication appears as a beneficial method that can address
key challenges faced by wireless networks. Cooperative techniques in IEEE 802.11 MAC …

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

Multimedia applications over wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are rapidly gaining interest
by the research community in order to develop new and mission critical services such as …

Cooperative retransmission can significantly improve link reliability over lossy and time-
varying wireless links. However, comparing retransmission protocols is challenging, and …

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 …

Comparison studies on timer-based distributed cooperative retransmission protocols are
challenging, given a variety of backoff techniques. We propose a new unified model, which …

The focus of this talk is on techniques to improve performance in the presence of large loads
and fast attenuation. To boost data transmission utilization and limit delay, a powerful …