Cooperation at the network level

The recent advances in cooperative relaying in wireless systems and the development of "distributed" MIMOs have established the benefits of cooperation at the physical layer. However, it is possible to extend the notion of cooperation at the network level where simple protocol features can achieve substantial benefits on top of those that traditional cooperative techniques do. In this talk we will introduce and explain network-level cooperative techniques and demonstrate their virtues. In addition we will argue that the potential for additional benefits is amplified when bursty traffic and delay models are considered. Prof. Anthony Ephremides,