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Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Foundations and Trends® in Networking
Symbiotic Networks: Towards a New Level of Cooperation Between Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Analyzing DISH for multi-channel MAC protocols in wireless networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Cross-layer rate control, medium access control and routing design in cooperative VANET
Computer Communications
CCMAC: coordinated cooperative MAC for wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A secure and delay-efficient scheme for NetLMM
Mobility '08 Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems
Opportunistic use of client repeaters to improve performance of WLANs
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
A multi-rate MAC protocol for mobile ad hoc networks and its cooperative extension
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Wireless Internet
Handover Incentives for WLANs with Overlapping Coverage
WWIC 2009 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
A proxy cooperative diversity method based on IEEE 802.11 standards
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
Throughput analysis of cooperative access with Relay's data protocol for unsaturated WLANs
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
Performance Enhancement of IEEE 802.11b WLANs Using Cooperative MAC Protocol
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
Opportunistic use of client repeaters to improve performance of WLANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Implementation of a cooperative MAC protocol: performance and challenges in a real environment
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on cooperative communications in wireless networks
Diversity driven cooperation protocol specification and MAC level performance evaluation
PDCS '07 Proceedings of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Distributed cooperative MAC for multihop wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Cooperative network implementation using open-source platforms
IEEE Communications Magazine
On the effectiveness of cooperation in carrier sense-based ad hoc networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A relay assignment algorithm with interference mitigation for cooperative communication
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
C-MAC: a MAC protocol supporting cooperation in wireless LANs
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Throughput analysis of cooperative access protocol for multi-rate WLANs
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Randomized spatial multiplexing for distributed cooperative communications
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Cooperative MAC protocol with distributed relay actuation
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Could cooperative MAC protocols improve performance in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks?
WONS'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services
MAC protocol using cooperative active relays in multi-rate wireless LANs
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
SI-CCMAC: sender initiating concurrent cooperative MAC for wireless LANs
WiOPT'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
Cooperative layered video multicast using randomized distributed space time codes
INFOCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE international conference on Computer Communications Workshops
A cooperative MAC protocol with virtual-antenna array support in a multi-AP WLAN system
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A cooperative multi-group priority MAC protocol for multi-packet reception channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A novel energy fairness mechanism based on relay selection for cooperative MAC protocol
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
CCMAC: Coordinated cooperative MAC for wireless LANs
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
CoRe-MAC: a MAC-protocol for cooperative relaying in wireless networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Dynamical cooperative MAC based on optimal selection of multiple helpers
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Cooperative content distribution in multi-rate wireless networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Robust cooperative relaying in a wireless LAN: cross-layer design and performance analysis
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Distributed physical carrier sensing adaptation scheme in cooperative MAP WLAN
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
A contention-based multiple access protocol in cooperative wireless networks
Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
CARD: cooperative access with relays data for multi-rate wireless local area networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Cooperation or not in mobile ad hoc networks: a MAC perspective
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
PR-MAC: a practical approach for exploiting relay transmissions in multi-rate WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Cooperation techniques for wireless systems from a networking perspective
IEEE Wireless Communications
Performance evaluation of a cooperative MAC protocol at ad hoc networks
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Mobility impact on centralized selection of mobile relays
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
A network lifetime aware cooperative MAC scheme for 802.11 b wireless networks
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Detection of selfish nodes in networks using CoopMAC protocol with ARQ
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
The cost of using cooperation in a wireless network
Asilomar'09 Proceedings of the 43rd Asilomar conference on Signals, systems and computers
Optimal cooperative ALOHA multiple access in fading channels
IEEE Communications Letters
CoopMACA: a cooperative MAC protocol using packet aggregation
Wireless Networks
A simple recruitment scheme of multiple nodes for cooperative MAC
IEEE Transactions on Communications
A TDMA-based MAC protocol with cooperative diversity
IEEE Communications Letters
CMAC-ORS: a cooperative MAC protocol with on-demand relay selection for wireless LANs
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
A Price Based Decentralized Rate Selection in IEEE 802.11 Based WLANS
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
BTAC: A Busy Tone Based Cooperative MAC Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Spare node cooperative method for IEEE 802.11 networks
Wireless Networks
Multi-hop cooperative communications using multi-relays in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and Its applications - Volume Part V
Multihop performance of cooperative preamble sampling MAC(CPS-MAC) in wireless sensor networks
ADHOC-NOW'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ad-hoc, mobile, and wireless networks
Simulation models for the performance evaluation of spectrum sharing techniques in OFDMA networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Formal verification of a Cooperative Automatic Repeat reQuest MAC protocol
Computer Standards & Interfaces
An efficient MAC protocol with cooperative retransmission in mobile ad hoc networks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
Relay-aided high-throughput path selection in multi-rate wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A performance evaluation tool for spectrum sharing in multi-operator LTE networks
Computer Communications
Enhanced cooperative communication MAC for mobile wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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
Collaborative Relaying Strategies in Autonomic Management of Mobile Robotics
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Quantize-map-forward (QMF) relaying: an experimental study
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Cooperative Distributed MAC Design for Cross-layer Link Adaptation of UWB WPAN Devices
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Interference-aware cooperative QoS routing in multi-hop wireless networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Jointly optimal rate control and relay selection for cooperative wireless video streaming
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A cross-layer multi-hop cooperative network architecture for wireless ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Due to the broadcast nature of wireless signals, a wireless transmission intended for a particular destination station can be overheard by other neighboring stations. A focus of recent research activities in cooperative communications is to achieve spatial diversity gains by requiring these neighboring stations to retransmit the overheard information to the final destination. In this paper we demonstrate that such cooperation among stations in a wireless LAN (WLAN) can achieve both higher throughput and lower interference. We present the design for a medium access control protocol called CoopMAC, in which high data rate stations assist low data rate stations in their transmission by forwarding their traffic. In our proposed protocol, using the overheard transmissions, each low data rate node maintains a table, called a CoopTable, of potential helper nodes that can assist in its transmissions. During transmission, each low data rate node selects either direct transmission or transmission through a helper node in order to minimize the total transmission time. Using analysis, simulation and testbed experimentation, we quantify the increase in the total network throughput, and the reduction in delay, if such cooperative transmissions are utilized. The CoopMAC protocol is simple and backward compatible with the legacy 802.11 system. In this paper, we also demonstrate a reduction in the signal-to-interference ratio in a dense deployment of 802.11 access points, which in some cases is a more important consequence of cooperation