STiCMAC: A MAC protocol for robust space-time coding in cooperative wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1358-1369

  Liu, Pei ^a   Nie, Chun ^a   Korakis, Thanasis ^a   Erkip, Elza ^a   Panwar, Shivendra S ^a   Verde, Francesco ^b   Scaglione, Anna ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative communications; IEEE 802.11; medium access control; protocol design; randomized distributed space time coding (R DSTC); Space time code MAC (STiCMAC)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL VARIATIONS; DATA RATES; DELAY PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODING; IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS; IEEE 802.11S; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK CAPACITY; ON THE FLIES; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PROTOCOL DESIGN; SPACE TIME CODING; TIGHT COORDINATION; TRANSMISSION MODE; TRANSMISSION SCHEMES; USER MOBILITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SPACE TIME CODES; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 84860219616     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.020712.101900     Document Type: Article

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