J.N. Laneman

TL;DR: Using distributed antennas, this work develops and analyzes low-complexity cooperative diversity protocols that combat fading induced by multipath propagation in wireless networks and develops performance characterizations in terms of outage events and associated outage probabilities, which measure robustness of the transmissions to fading.

TL;DR: This work develops and analyzes space-time coded cooperative diversity protocols for combating multipath fading across multiple protocol layers in a wireless network and demonstrates that these protocols achieve full spatial diversity in the number of cooperating terminals, not just theNumber of decoding relays, and can be used effectively for higher spectral efficiencies than repetition-based schemes.

TL;DR: All of the antenna sharing protocols offer diversity gains over single-hop and multihop transmission, and the results suggest that low-complexity amplifying and forwarding is energy-efficient in spite of noise amplification at the relay.

TL;DR: Two variants of an energy-efficient cooperative diversity protocol are developed that combats fading induced by multipath propagation in wireless networks and can lead to reduced battery drain, longer network lifetime, and improved network performance in terms of, e.g., capacity.

TL;DR: This work develops and analyzes space-time coded cooperative diversity protocols for combating multipath fading across multiple protocol layers in a wireless network and demonstrates that these protocols achieve full spatial diversity in the number of cooperating terminals, not just theNumber of decoding relays, and can be used effectively for higher spectral efficiencies than repetition-based schemes.