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Masaki KUBO Kensuke NAKANISHI Kentaro YANAGIHARA Shinsuke HARA
The use of cooperative nodes is effective for enhancing the reliability of wireless data transmission between a source and a destination by means of transmit diversity effect. However, in its application to wireless multi-hop networks, how to form cooperative node candidates and how to select multiple cooperative nodes out of them have not been well investigated. In this paper, we propose a multiple cooperative node selection method based on a criterion composed of “quality” and “angle” metrics, which can select and order adequate cooperative nodes. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the packet error rate without any knowledge on node location.