New Communications Research Reported from University of London.

"Cooperative communication has been shown as an effective way to exploit spatial diversity to improve the quality of wireless links," researchers in London, United Kingdom report.

"The key feature of cooperative transmission is to encourage single-antenna devices to share their antennas cooperatively such that a virtual and distributed antenna array can be constructed, and, as a result, reception reliability can be improved and power consumption can be reduced significantly. With better understanding of such a physical layer technique, it becomes critically important to study how the performance gain of cooperative diversity at the physical layer can be reflected at the networking layer, thus ultimately improving application performance," wrote Z.G. Sheng and colleagues, University of London.

The researchers concluded: "This article presents an overview of network performance in cooperative wireless networks."

Sheng and colleagues published their study in IEEE Communications Magazine (Cooperative Wireless Networks: From Radio to Network Protocol Designs. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011;49(5):64-69).

For additional information, contact Z.G. Sheng, University of London Imperial College, Dept. of Electrical & Electrical Engineering, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

Publisher contact information for the journal IEEE Communications Magazine is: IEEE-Institute Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc., 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-4141, USA.

Keywords: City:London, Country:United Kingdom, Region:Europe, Communications, Networks, Wireless Network, Wireless Technology

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