Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications [electronic resource] : Real Egoistic Behavior is to Cooperate! / edited by Frank H. P. Fitzek, Marcos D. Katz.

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.

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.