Implementation of a cooperative MAC protocol: Performance and challenges in a real environment

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Korakis, Thanasis ^a   Tao, Zhifeng ^b   Singh, Shashi Raj ^a   Liu, Pei ^a   Panwar, Shivendra S ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE MAC PROTOCOLS; CORRESPONDING SOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH; MAC LAYER; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK; PROTOCOL BEHAVIOR; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; SYSTEM CAPACITY; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 68949107966     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/598140     Document Type: Article

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