Cross-layer cooperative MAC protocol in distributed wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2603-2615

  Shan, Hangguan ^a   Cheng, Ho Ting ^b   Zhuang, Weihua ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Huawei Ottawa R and D Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

beneficial node cooperation; cooperation region; Cooperative communications; medium access control

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION REGION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE MAC PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; COOPERATIVE WIRELESS NETWORKS; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER PROTOCOL DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; GROUPING STRATEGIES; IMPROVING SYSTEMS; LINK UTILIZATION; MAC LAYER; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MULTIUSER DIVERSITY; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; NODE COOPERATION; NODE SELECTION; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PROTOCOL DESIGN; PROTOCOL OVERHEAD; RATE ALLOCATION; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION PROBABILITIES;

DESIGN; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84860390398     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.060811.101196     Document Type: Article

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