Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications: Real Egoistic Behavior is to Cooperate!

Oversized hardcover, 641 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.37kg. Clean, little used condition: bright pages and unmarked text. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The book 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. -- Contents: 1. Cooperation in Nature and Wireless Communications / Frank H. P. Fitzek and Marcos D. Katz; 2. Cooperative Communications / Arnab Chakrabarti, Ashutosh Sabharwal and Behnaam Aazhang; 3. Cooperation, Competition and Cognition in Wireless Networks / Oh-Soon Shin; 4. Cooperation Techniques in Cross-layer Design / Shuguang Cui and Andrea J. Goldsmith; 5. Network Coding in Wireless Networks / Desmond S. Lun; 6. Cooperative Diversity / J. Nicholas Laneman; 7. Cooperation in Ad-Hoc Networks / Petri Mähönen; 8. Multi-route and Multi-user Diversity / Keivan Navaie; 9. Cognitive Radio Architecture / Joseph Mitola III; 10. Stability and Security in Wireless Cooperative Networks / Konrad Wrona; 11. Power Consumption and Spectrum Usage Paradigms in Cooperative Wireless Networks / Frank H.P. Fitzek; 12. Cooperative Antenna Systems / Patrick C.F. Eggers; 13. Distributed Antennas: The Concept of Virtual Antenna Arrays / Mischa Dohler; 14. Cooperation in 4G Networks / Marcos D. Katz; 15. Cooperative Techniques in the IEEE 802 Wireless Standards: Opportunities and Challenges / Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan; 16. Cooperative Communication with Multiple Description Coding / Morten Holm Larsen; 17. Cooperative Header Compression / Tartiana K. Madsen; 18. Energy Aware Task Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Networks / Anders Brodlos Olsen and Peter Koch; 19. Cooperative Coding and Its Application to OFDM Systems / Jerry C.H. Lin; 20. Cooperative Methods for Spatial Channel Control / Yasushi Takatori.…