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This paper investigates the use of cooperative communications in the context of IEEE 802.11b to combat radio signal degradation. The performance gain of both an existing cooperative protocol and the one proposed in the paper is discussed. It is quantitatively shown how much the two cooperative protocols increase throughput, lower delivery latency, and extend transmission span, when compared to the conventional IEEE 802.11b protocol. These features may help improve connectivity and network performance in ad hoc applications.
This research is supported in part by NSF Grants No. ECS-0225528 and CNS-0435429.
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Agarwal, N., ChanneGowda, D., Kannan, L.N., Tacca, M., Fumagalli, A. (2007). IEEE 802.11b Cooperative Protocols: A Performance Study. In: Akyildiz, I.F., Sivakumar, R., Ekici, E., Oliveira, J.C.d., McNair, J. (eds) NETWORKING 2007. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Next Generation Internet. NETWORKING 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4479. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72606-7_36
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