Future wireless ad-hoc systems are expected to extensively rely on cooperation between terminals. On this line, cooperative retransmission protocols are particularly promising due to their opportunistic and flexible exploitation of both spatial and time diversity. In this book, some of the major issues that hinder the practical implementation of this technology are identified and pertaining solutions are proposed and analyzed. Firstly, cooperative retransmission protocols are reexamined in terms of energy efficiency and their limitation for short transmission ranges is observed. An...