Multipacket reception (MPR) is the capability of simultaneous decoding of more than one packet from multiple concurrent\r\ntransmissions. Continuous investigations on increasing the reception capability are giving new scientific contributions. In this\r\npaper, we provide an overview of MPR-related research work covering (1) the theoretically proved impacts and advantages of\r\nusing MPR from a channel perspective to network capacity and throughput; (2) the various technologies that enable MPR from\r\ntransmitter, transreceiver, and receiver perspectives; (3) previous work on protocol improvement to better exploit MPR. Indeed,\r\nMPR approaches have been applied in modern wireless mobile systems but the focus of this paper is to discuss MPR in random\r\naccess wireless networks. Using MPR in suchmultihop environments calls for new adaptation on protocols, especially a cross-layer\r\napproach. To this end, we detail a scheduling method that targets full utilization of MPR capability.
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