Mobile relaying: Coverage extension and throughput enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2709-2717

  Xiao, Lei ^a,b   Fuja, Thomas E ^a   Costello Jr , Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

mobile communications; queuing analysis; Relays

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE THROUGHPUT; COVERAGE AREA; COVERAGE EXTENSION; END USERS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE RELAYS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; POISSON PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUEUING ANALYSIS; RANDOM MOTIONS; RELAY LOCATION; RELAYS; THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT; WIRELESS CONNECTION; WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURES;

BASE STATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THROUGHPUT;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956911820     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.080310.090199     Document Type: Article

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