Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications

Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications covers the underlying principles of cooperative techniques as well as several applications demonstrating the use of such techniques in practical systems. The work is written in a collaborative manner by several authors from Asia, America, and Europe. Twenty chapters introduce and discuss in detail the main cooperative strategies for the whole communication protocol stack from the application layer down to the physical layer. Furthermore power saving strategies, security, hardware realization, and user scenarios for cooperative communication systems are introduced and discussed. The book also summarizes the strength of cooperation for upcoming generation of wireless communication systems, clearly motivating the use of cooperative techniques and pointing out that cooperation will become one of the key technologies enabling 4G and beyond. This book puts into one volume a comprehensive and technically rich view of the wireless communications scene from a cooperation point of view.

First book to address Cooperation in Wireless Networks First class authors offering their best research fields Compendium in Cooperation in Wireless Networks, wide and deep coverage Good balance between theory and practical issues The fastest emerging topic in wireless communications, becoming a real hot-topic Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Frank H. P. Fitzek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark heading the Future Vision group. His current research interests are in the areas of 4G wireless communication networks, cross layer protocol design and cooperative networking.

Dr. Fitzek received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 for quality of service support in wireless CDMA networks. As a visiting student at the Arizona State University he conducted research in the field of video services over wireless networks. He co-founded the start-up company acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. In 2002 he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy giving lectures on wireless communications and conducting research on multi-hop networks. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC.

Inhalt
Cooperation in Nature and Wireless Communications.- Cooperative Communications.- Cooperation, Competition and Cognition in Wireless Networks.- Cooperation Techniques in Cross-layer Design.- Network Coding in Wireless Networks.- Cooperative Diversity.- Cooperation in Ad-Hoc Networks.- Multi-route and Multi-user Diversity.- Cognitive Radio Architecture.- Stability and Security in Wireless Cooperative Networks.- Power Consumption and Spectrum Usage Paradigms in Cooperative Wireless Networks.- Cooperative Antenna Systems.- Distributed Antennas: The Concept of Virtual Antenna Arrays.- Cooperation in 4G Networks.- Cooperative Techniques in the IEEE 802 Wireless Standards: Opportunities and Challenges.- Cooperative Communication with Multiple Description Coding.- Cooperative Header Compression.- Energy Aware Task Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Networks.- Cooperative Coding and Its Application to OFDM Systems.- Cooperative Methods for Spatial Channel Control.