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Title: Physical Layer Performance of a Cooperative Amplify and Forward Scheme for MIMO WLANs
This paper proposes a novel cooperative amplify and forward (CAF) architecture for MIMO WLANs to improve their coverages and transmission rates, without requiring any modifications in the IEEE 802.11 standards at the clients. System models are used for analyzing physical layer of CAF networks, and compared with conventional amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) networks. Numerical results demonstrate that CAF network clearly outperforms conventional 802.11 networks, AF and DF networks in terms of coverage and throughput.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1738093
PAR ID:
10095307
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
ISSN:
0018-9545
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 1
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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