| 1 | = A Demonstration of Video over a Cooperative PHY layer Protocol = |
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| 3 | Authors: Shasi Raj Singh, Ehtesham Akhtar Siddiqui, Thanasis Korakis, Pei Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar |
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| 5 | Preprint: [http://mts.hindawi.com/utils/GetAcceptedMsFile.aspx?msid=598140&vnum=2&ftype=manuscript PDF] |
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| 7 | == Abstract == |
| 8 | Cooperative communication is an active area of research today. It enables nodes to achieve spatial diversity, |
| 9 | thereby achieving tremendous improvement in system capacity and delay. Due to its immense potential, extensive |
| 10 | investigations have been directed to closely examine its performance by means of both analysis and simulation. |
| 11 | However, the study of this new technology in an implementation based system is very limited. In this paper, we |
| 12 | present two implementation approaches to demonstrate the viability of realizing cooperation at the MAC layer in |
| 13 | a real environment1 . The paper describes the technical challenges encountered in each of the approaches, details |
| 14 | the corresponding solution proposed, and compares the limitations and benefits of the two approaches. Experimental |
| 15 | measurements are reported, which not only help develop a deeper understanding of the protocol behavior, but also |
| 16 | confirm that cooperative communication is a promising technology for boosting the performance of next generation |
| 17 | wireless networks. |
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| 19 | {{{ |
| 20 | {Korakis:2009, |
| 21 | Author = {Thanasis Korakis and Zhifeng Tao and Shashi Raj Singh and Pei Liu and Shivendra S. Panwar}, |
| 22 | title = {Implementation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol: Performance and challenges in a real environment}, |
| 23 | booktitle = {{EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking}}, |
| 24 | year = {2009} |
| 25 | } |
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