Cooperative Communications and Networking

Presenting the fundamental principles 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, space-time-diversity and coding, and broadband space-time-frequency diversity and coding. Part II then goes on to present topics on physical layer cooperative comunications, such as relay channels and protocols, performance bounds, optimum power control, multi-node cooperation, distributed space-time and space-frequency coding, relay selection, differential cooperative transmission, and energy efficiency. Finally, Part III focuses on cooperative networking, including cooperative and content-aware multiple access, distributed routing, source-channel coding, source-channel diversity, coverage expansion, cooperative broadband networks, and network lifetime maximization. With end-of-chapter review questions included, 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. Book jacket.