Performance analysis and cooperative protocol design for contention-based wireless networks

Traditional perspectives derived from wired networks treat each user as an individual and are subject to a layered architecture which is unnecessarily restrictive as it ignores two key characteristics of wireless medium: broadcast nature and spatial diversity. Inspired by the recent idea of cooperat...

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Main Author: Guo, Tao
Published: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501170