Notation
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Set of Autonomic Cooperative Nodes providing the capability of cooperative transmission between the source node  and the destination node  . |
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Set of channel coefficients between the members of  and  itself. |
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Equivalent distributed space-time block encoder, where  denotes a specific space-time block coding scheme, e.g.  ,  ,  ,  , or  . |
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Generic transmitter  , where  . |
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Generic receiver  , where  . |
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Channel coefficient between the  th transmitting antenna and  th receiving antenna, where  and  . |
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Channel gain. |
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Channel matrix for  transmitting antennae and  receiving antennae. |
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 identity matrix. |
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Path loss defining a given radio propagation model. |
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Buffer load in the previous cycle  , where  denotes a slot, while  corresponds either to the base station, indicated by the  , or a fixed relay node, assigned a value of 1 through 4. |
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Set of multi-point relays of a given source node  . |
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Redundant, i.e. secondary, ternary, and so on, set of multi-point relays of a given source node  , where  ;  is equivalent to  . |
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Number of transmitting antennae deployed at a relay node. |
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Number of transmitting antennae deployed at a destination node. |
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Number of transmitting antennae deployed at a source node. |
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Set of one-hop neighbour nodes of a given source node  . |
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One-hop neighbour node belonging to the set  . |
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Set of two-hop neighbour nodes of a given source node  . |
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Two-hop neighbour belonging to the set  . |
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Transmitted signal power. |
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Power level of the signal transmitted by a given network node  as observed by its neighbour node  . |
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Noise power. |
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Hermitian transpose of a matrix  . |
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