TY - JOUR
T1 - User cooperation in wireless networks
AU - Cai, Lin
AU - Li, Pan
AU - Kato, Nei
AU - Fantacci, Romano
N1 - Funding Information:
LIN CAI [S’00, M’06, SM’10] received her M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (awarded Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. Her research interests span several areas in wireless communications and networking, with a focus on network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic over wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks. She has been a recipient of the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Grant in 2010, the NICT foreign research fellow award in 2011, the best paper award of IEEE ICC 2008, and the best academic paper award of IEEE WCNC 2011. She has served as a TPC symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom’10, and the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, International Journal of Sensor Networks, and Journal of Communications and Networks.
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NEI KATO [A’03, M’04, SM’05] received his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in information engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He joined Computer Center of Tohoku University at 1991, and has been a full professor with the Graduate School of Information Sciences since 2003. He has been engaged in research on satellite communications, computer networking, wireless mobile communications, smart grid, image processing and neural networks. He has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He currently serves as the Chair of IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee, the Vice Chair of IEEE Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks Technical Committee, the Chair of the IEICE Satellite Communications Technical Committee, a technical editor of IEEE Wireless Communications (2006~), an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2008~), an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2009~), an editor of IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, a co-guest-editor of several Special Issues of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He has served as a symposium co-chair of GLOBECOM’07, ICC’10, ICC’11, ICC’12, Vice Chair of IEEE WCNC’10, WCNC’11, ChinaCom’08, ChinaCom’09, Symposia cochair of GLOBECOM’12, and workshop co-chair of VTC2010. His awards include Minoru Ishida Foundation Research Encouragement Prize (2003), Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award from the IEEE Communications Society, Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (2005), the FUNAI information Science Award (2007), the TELCOM System Technology Award from Foundation for Electrical Communications Diffusion (2008), the IEICE Network System Research Award (2009), the KDDI Foundation Excellent Research Award (2012), and two IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Awards. Besides his academic activities, he also serves on the expert committee of Telecommunications Council, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and as the chairperson of ITU-R SG4 and SG7, Japan. Nei Kato is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2012–2013) and the Co-PI of A3 Foresight Program (2011–2014) financially supported by JSPS, NSFC, and NRF.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - As the wireless communication channel is shared in nature, user cooperation is a key enabling tool to exploit the spatial multiplexing and diversity gains to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks. User cooperation can take many forms, including the physical-layer cooperative communications, the link-layer cooperative and cognitive medium access, the network-layer cooperative routing and load balancing, the collaborative end-to-end congestion control in the transport layer, and the cooperative peer-to-peer services. The development and optimization of cooperation technologies requires interdisciplinary efforts, from advanced signal processing and communication to network protocol design and optimization. It also sparks theoretical breakthroughs in topology control, nonlinear optimization, signal processing and complex networks, and stimulates practical advances in mobile communications and networking technologies, devices and platforms.
AB - As the wireless communication channel is shared in nature, user cooperation is a key enabling tool to exploit the spatial multiplexing and diversity gains to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks. User cooperation can take many forms, including the physical-layer cooperative communications, the link-layer cooperative and cognitive medium access, the network-layer cooperative routing and load balancing, the collaborative end-to-end congestion control in the transport layer, and the cooperative peer-to-peer services. The development and optimization of cooperation technologies requires interdisciplinary efforts, from advanced signal processing and communication to network protocol design and optimization. It also sparks theoretical breakthroughs in topology control, nonlinear optimization, signal processing and complex networks, and stimulates practical advances in mobile communications and networking technologies, devices and platforms.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2012.6189407
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2012.6189407
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84860560682
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 19
SP - 8
EP - 9
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 2
M1 - 6189407
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