A survey and taxonomy on medium access control strategies for cooperative communication in wireless networks: research issues and challenges

• Main Authors: Sami, Mahmoud, Noordin, Nor Kamariah, Khabazian, Mehdi, Hashim, Fazirulhisyam, Subramaniam, Shamala
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54943/1/A%20survey%20and%20taxonomy%20on%20medium%20access%20control%20strategies%20for%20cooperative%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54943/

Cooperative communication (CC) has been introduced as an effective technique to combat the detrimental effects of channel fading by exploiting spatial diversity gain, resulting in improved throughput and network performance. CC provides an opportunity for single antenna nodes to share their resource...