Cooperative Communications and Networking

Presenting the fundamentals of cooperative communications and networking, this book treats the concepts of space, time, frequency diversity and MIMO, with a holistic approach to principal topics where significant improvements can be obtained. Beginning with background and MIMO systems, Part I includes a review of basic principles of wireless communications and space-time diversity and coding. Part II then presents topics on physical layer cooperative communications such as relay channels and protocols, performance bounds, multi-node cooperation, and energy efficiency. Finally, Part III focuses on cooperative networking including cooperative and content-aware multiple access, distributed routing, source-channel coding, and cooperative OFDM. Including end-of-chapter review questions, this text will appeal to graduate students of electrical engineering and is an ideal textbook for advanced courses on wireless communications. It will also be of great interest to practitioners in the wireless communications industry. Presentation slides for each chapter and instructor-only solutions are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521895132.

Spis treści:
Preface
Part I. Background and MIMO Systems
1. Introduction
2. Space-time diversity and coding
3. Space-time-frequency diversity and coding
Part II. Cooperative Communications
4. Relay channels and protocols
5. Cooperative communications with single relay
6. Multi-node cooperative communications
7. Distributed space-time and space-frequency coding
8. Relay selection, when to cooperate with whom
9. Differential modulation for cooperative communications
10. Energy efficiency in cooperative sensor networks
Part III. Cooperative Networking
11. Cognitive multiple-access via cooperation
12. Content-aware cooperative multiple-access
13. Distributed cooperative routing
14. Source-channel coding with cooperation
15. Asymptotic performance of distortion exponents
16. Coverage expansion with cooperation
17. Broadband cooperative communications
18. Network lifetime maximization via cooperation
Bibliography
Index.