Protocol Design and Analysis for Cooperative Wireless Networks

• Main Authors: Song, Wei (Author), Ju, Peijian (Author), Jin, A-Long (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Wireless Networks,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Electric power production.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Energy Technology.; Computer Communication Networks.

This book focuses on the design and analysis of protocols for cooperative wireless networks, especially at the medium access control (MAC) layer and for crosslayer design between the MAC layer and the physical layer. It highlights two main points that are often neglected in other books: energy-effic...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Related Works on Cooperative Wireless Networks
• Energy-Efficient Uncoordinated Cooperative MAC with Uncertain Relay Distribution Intensity
• Energy-Aware Cooperative MAC with Uncoordinated Group Relays
• Opportunistic Cooperative Relaying with Backoff-Based Contention
• Diversity Relaying with Spatially Random Mobile Relays
• Conclusions and Future Directions.