
CHAPTER 3
Energy Consumption
of Cooperative
Transmission
Zhengguo Sheng, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kin K. Leung, Imperial College London, UK
3.1 INTRODUCTION
The improvement on the ETE reliability is not the only benefit that we can get
from cooperative routing. From another aspect, the total power consumption
can also be reduced by using cooperation. Various cooperative routing algo-
rithms have been developed to further reduce the total transmission power
of cooperative transmission [22, 23, 24, 25, 26]. However, most existing co-
operative routing algorithms are implemented by identifying a shortest path
first, and thus the performance gains ...