Wireless cooperative networks: partnership selection and fairness

• Main Authors: Elsheikh, Elsheikh Mohamed Ahmed, Kai-Kit, Wong
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/45872/1/Elsheikh%2C_Wireless_Cooperative_Networks-_Partnership_Selection_and_Fairness%2C_IFIP_Wireless_Days_Nov_2008.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/45872/; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4812891

This paper presents analytical results that formalize fair-and-effective partnership selection for a distributed wireless network where user cooperation is employed to enhance the network performance and each individual user has the responsibility of identifying an appropriate partner, or makes a decision if a partnership opportunity is offered by other users. In particular, a 2-user time-division reciprocal cooperation is used so that the transmitters in a network are arranged into pairs of cooperating users with the aid of the channel state information (CSI) at the user nodes.