TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperative wireless communications
T2 - A cross-layer approach
AU - Liu, Pei
AU - Tao, Zhifeng
AU - Lin, Zinan
AU - Erkip, Elza
AU - Panwar, Shivendra
N1 - Funding Information:
The work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 0520054, and the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.
PY - 2006/8
Y1 - 2006/8
N2 - "Denise and her husband Mitch are at opposite ends of a living room at a crowded party. Denise tries to attract Mitch's attention and shouts something at him. All Mitch can hear is the word 'Let's.' Celine, in the middle of the room, who overhears Denise and notices their predicament, repeats to Mitch the part she hears: 'Go home.' This time, all Mitch hears is the word 'home.' Mitch finally figures out that his wife wants to go home." This analogy from everyday life vividly portrays the essential element of cooperative wireless communications, namely, utilizing information over-heard by neighboring nodes to provide robust communication between a source and its destination. Cooperative communication exhibits various forms at different protocol layers and introduces many opportunities for cross-layer design and optimization, some of which will be explored in detail in this article.
AB - "Denise and her husband Mitch are at opposite ends of a living room at a crowded party. Denise tries to attract Mitch's attention and shouts something at him. All Mitch can hear is the word 'Let's.' Celine, in the middle of the room, who overhears Denise and notices their predicament, repeats to Mitch the part she hears: 'Go home.' This time, all Mitch hears is the word 'home.' Mitch finally figures out that his wife wants to go home." This analogy from everyday life vividly portrays the essential element of cooperative wireless communications, namely, utilizing information over-heard by neighboring nodes to provide robust communication between a source and its destination. Cooperative communication exhibits various forms at different protocol layers and introduces many opportunities for cross-layer design and optimization, some of which will be explored in detail in this article.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2006.1678169
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2006.1678169
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33748361180
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 13
SP - 84
EP - 92
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 4
M1 - 1678169
ER -