Cooperative Communications and Networking (Hardcover)

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.