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G. Menghwar, C. Mecklenbräuker:
"Cooperative versus Non-cooperative Communications";
Talk: Second IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication (IEEE-IC4 2009), Karachi, Pakistan; 02-17-2009 - 02-18-2009; in: "Second IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication (IEEE-IC4 2009)", (2009), 1 - 3.

In this paper, we review some of the prominent gains achieved with cooperative communications, a new way of communications, which has found its applications in almost every wireless network, from cellular to sensor networks. Cooperative communications is a way of transmission, where wireless users not only transmit their own information, but also repeat other users´ information during its transmission to a common destination. On the other hand, a non-cooperative communications is the classical multiple access channel, where users send directly to a common destination, without repeating for one another. We discuss the achievable rates and error rate performance improvement, both for cooperative and non-cooperative communications.

relay network, cooperation, outage