Jabbari, BijanAhmadi, Pouyan2015-07-292015-07-292015https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9704Recently cooperative communications has gained considerable attention in research due to multi-path fading mitigation ability through spatial diversity while providing flexibility. In cooperative communication protocols, terminals and relays cooperate to form a virtual antenna array which enhances the capacity or network throughput.100 pagesenCopyright 2015 Pouyan AhmadiEngineeringElectrical engineeringCooperative CommunicationCooperative RoutingEnergy EfficiencyOutage ProbabilityRelay Selection AlgorithmWireless Multi-hop NetworksDissertation