Cooperative Wireless Networking Beyond Store-and-Forward
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Cooperative diversity in wireless networks: Efficient protocols and outage behavior
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A simple Cooperative diversity method based on network path selection
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
CoopMAC: A Cooperative MAC for Wireless LANs
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Formal verification of a Cooperative Automatic Repeat reQuest MAC protocol
Computer Standards & Interfaces
A Distributed Cooperative MAC Protocol for QoS Improvement and Mobility Support in WiMedia Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
A Cooperative MAC Protocol for QoS Enhancement in Wireless USB Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Cooperative communication is regarded as a promising technology in future 5G wireless networks to enhance network performance by exploiting time and/or space diversity via distributed terminals. In this paper, we propose a cooperative medium access protocol which addresses three key aspects of cooperative communications from MAC layer perspective, namely, when to cooperate, whom to cooperate with and how to protect ongoing cooperative transmissions. To further improve the protocol performance in dense networks, three techniques are investigated to avoid potential collision among multiple contending relays. Both analysis and simulation results demonstrate that significant improvement in terms of throughput and packet delivery ratio can be achieved by the proposed cooperative protocol.