Kannan, Lakshmi Narasimhan, 1984-Vijayasankar, Kumaran, 1984-ChanneGowda, Divya, 1981-Agarwal, Niraj, 1977-Fumagalli, AndreaTacca, Marco, 1973-2013-05-242013-05-242007-042013-05-24http://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/2643"This research is supported in part by NSF grants No. ECS-0225528 and CNS-0435429"This paper combines multi-hop networking with single-hop cooperative communications. The solution is built upon the standard IEEE 802.11 protocol operating in the ad hoc mode. A simulation based comparison is carried out in order to evaluate the performance gains and benefit of cooperative communications applied to multi-hop networking. Preliminary results indicate that network performance in terms of both throughput and end-to-end delay improves. Additionally, cooperative communications increases robustness against uncertainties in the wireless channel.CC BY 3.0 (Attribution)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/MultiHop networkingIEEE 802.11 (Standard)Cooperative communicationsTextKannan, L.N., K Vijayasankar, D. ChanneGowda, N Agarwal, A. Fumagalli and M. Tacca. 2007. "Cooperative Communications in MultiHop Networking: a Case Study Based on the IEEE 802.11 Protocol." The University of Texas at Dallas.EE03-2007