Application of Cooperative Communication in Wireless Sensor Network

Performance and throughput is the crucial target in wireless communications.Cooperative communications can achieve the same diversity gain with Multi-Input Multi-Output(MIMO) scheme without being fixed multi-antennas.Energy-efficiency is the most important parameter of Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN).Applying cooperative communications in WSN can enhance energy-efficiency of WSN,which will prolong the lifetime of the whole networks.In the paper,we introduce the application scheme of cooperative communication in WSN and analyze energy-efficiency of the scheme.Finally,the crucial problems of this research are summarized,and the future research strategies and trends.