Inspec keywords: perturbation techniques; cooperative communication; stochastic processes; wireless sensor networks; access control; approximation theory; greedy algorithms

Other keywords: power allocation technique; carrier sense multiple access-collision avoidance-based access control mechanism; combined signal strength; cooperative sensor networks; greedy forwarding approach; simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation; cooperative relay scheme; wireless sensor networks; stochastic approximation approach

Subjects: Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Other topics in statistics; Wireless sensor networks