A cooperative MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless networks

Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 532-536

  Korakis, Thanasis ^a   Tao, Zhifeng ^b   Slutskiy, Yevgeniy ^c   Panwart, Shivendra ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; Ad hoc network; Cooperative communications; MAC

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERMEDIATE STATIONS; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; WIRELESS CHANNELS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; BROADCASTING; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34547700530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2007.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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