TY - JOUR N2 - Cross layer cooperative protocol which exploits the benefits of physical layer cooperative communication, is one of the widely recognized MAC layer protocol design strategies for future wireless networks. This paper presents performance analysis of a cooperative mac and these performance parameters are compared those of the legacy IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC. Appropriate relay station selection is the main hurdle in designing efficient cooperative MAC protocol for wireless networks. This cooperative mac demonstrated that intermediate relay nodes themselves can initiate cooperation for relaying data frame to the receiver on behalf of the sender. This procedure makes the selection process of a “helper node” more distributed in nature as well as it contributes to increase throughput of a wireless network by reducing the overheads that are usually incurred in the helper selection process. It has been shown by thorough analytical analysis that the proposed cooperative MAC protocol offers higher throughput and lower frame transmission delay in both ideal and error prone wireless environment. These performance metrics are also evaluated while the wireless nodes are mobile as well. L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113298/PDF/56.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113298 PY - 2019 IS - No 3 EP - 428 DO - 10.24425/ijet.2019.129794 KW - RTS KW - CTS KW - Cooperative Networking KW - IEEE 802.11DCF MAC KW - BEB A1 - Amin, Md. Ruhul A1 - Hossain, Md. Shohrab PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications VL - vol. 65 DA - 2019.09.06 T1 - Performance Evaluation of a Helper Initiated Distributed Cooperative Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Networks SP - 421 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113298 T2 - International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications ER -