Cooperative Communications and Networking Technologies and System Design /

• Main Authors: Hong, Y.-W. Peter. (Author), Huang, Wan-Jen. (Author), Kuo, C.-C. Jay. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer Communication Networks.; Coding theory.; Physics.; Telecommunication.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Coding and Information Theory.; Complexity.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7194-4

Cooperative and relay communications have recently become the most widely explored topics in communications, whereby users cooperate in transmitting their messages to the destination, instead of conventional networks which operate independently and compete among each other for channel resources. As...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basics in Wireless Communications and Diversity Techniques. - Fundamental Limits in Cooperative Systems
• Two-User Cooperative Relay Channels
• Cooperation with Multiple Relays
• Cooperative Multiple Access System
• Cooperative Multi-Hop Networks
• Cooperative Medium Access Control Protocols
• Cross-Layered Networking and High-Layer Perspectives.