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Opportunistic Scheduling And Cooperative Relaying In Wireless Networks, Yufeng Wang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The demand for ever larger, more efficient, reliable and cost effective communication networks necessitates new network architectures, such as wireless ad hoc networks, cognitive radio, relaying networks, and wireless sensor networks. The study of such networks requires a fundamental shift from thinking of a network as a collection of independent communication pipes, to a multi-user channel where users cooperate via conferencing, relaying, and joint source-channel coding.

The traditional centralized networks, such as cellular networks, include a central controller and a fixed infrastructure, in which every node communicates with each other via a centralized based station (BS). However, for a decentralized …