To Cooperate or not to Cooperate? That is the Question!
Mohamed H. Ahmed, Salama Ikki · 2011
This chapter describes the benefits, challenges and complexity issues of cooperative-diversity systems in order to gain a deeper insight into the performance and feasibility of cooperative-diversity systems in practice. It presents an overview of cooperative-diversity systems and their main benefits and advantages. The chapter provides the major challenges and complexity issues of cooperative-diversity systems. It concludes with a brief discussion answering the raised question whether we should cooperate or not cooperate. Controlled Vocabulary Terms cooperative communication