Cooperative connectivity models for wireless relay networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1992-2000

  Boyer, John ^a,b   Falconer, David D ^a,b   Yanikomeroglu, Halim ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative connectivity; Cooperative diversity; Cooperative relaying; Multihop relaying; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE CONNECTIVITY; COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY; COOPERATIVE RELAYING; MULTIHOP RELAYING; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 34547749883     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05742     Document Type: Article

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