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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Amplify-and-forward
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Fall 2009
Cooperative wireless communication uses relays to enhance the capacity and reliability of data transmission. Adaptive transmission is typically used in conventional non-cooperative communications to exploit the time-varying nature of the wireless channel. In this thesis, we combine these two...
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Simple Distributed Multihop Diversity Relaying Based on Repetition for Low-Power-Low-Rate Application
DownloadSpring 2012
Low data rate, reliable wireless connectivity among inexpensive fixed, portable and mobile devices is needed in some home automation, industrial control, medical sensing, and reality applications. Such applications are the subject of the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, and require low power, yet reliable...