%0 Journal Article %T Wireless Cooperative Networks: Protocols, Topologies and Performance %A ¨¢lvaro Ricieri Castro e Souza %A Mario Lemes Proen£¿a Jr %A Taufik Abr£¿o %J Semina : Ci¨ºncias Exatas e Tecnol¨®gicas %D 2011 %I State University of Londrina %X This work analyzes the most common wireless cooperative network protocols, verifying potentialities and performance relative to the non cooperative methodology, also techniques that can maximize the performance, such as combining signal rules and relay selection. Furthermore, considerations are provided for the computational complexity of topologies, combining techniques and protocols of cooperative networks. %K Wireless cooperative networks %K Protocols %K Computational complexity %U http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semexatas/article/view/8103/8755