Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Murat Uysal

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 633
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cooperative communications, an emerging research area spurring tremendous excitement within academia and industry, has experienced an increase in demands for wireless multimedia and interactive services in recent years. Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications provides practitioners, researchers, and academicians with fundamental principles of cooperative communication, presenting the latest advances in this rapidly evolving field. Containing research from leading international experts, this Premier Reference Source offers readers diverse findings and exposes underlying issues in the analysis, design, and optimization of wireless systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 19
Acknowledgment......Page 24
Section 1
Information Theoretical
Results on Cooperative
Communications......Page 25
Information Theoretical
Limits on Cooperative
Communications......Page 26
Overview of Amplifyand-
Forward Relaying......Page 54
Power Allocation for
Cooperative Communications......Page 87
Capacity Limits of Base
Station Cooperation in
Cellular Networks......Page 127
Section 2
Practical Code Schemes for
Cooperative Communications......Page 159
Source and Channel Coding
Techniques for Cooperative
Communications......Page 160
Network Coding for Multi-
Hop Wireless Networks......Page 212
Section 3
Distributed Transmit
and Receive Diversity
Techniques for Cooperative
Communications......Page 231
Cross-Layer Cooperative
Beamforming for
Wireless Networks......Page 232
Distributed Space-Time Block
Coding for Amplify-and-
Forward Cooperative Networks......Page 263
Relay Selection in
Cooperative Networks......Page 285
Energy Efficient Communication
with Random Node Cooperation......Page 305
Diversity Combining for
Cooperative Communications......Page 326
Single and Double-Differential
Coding in Cooperative
Communications......Page 346
Space-Time Coding For
Non-Coherent Cooperative
Communications......Page 377
Section 4
Broadband Cooperative
Communications......Page 406
Resource Allocation for a
Cooperative Broadband
MIMO-OFDM System......Page 407
Single-Carrier Frequency
Domain Equalization for
Broadband Cooperative
Communications......Page 424
Section 5
Methematical Tools for Analysis
and Design of Cooperative
Networks......Page 453
Applications of Majorization
Theory in Space-Time
Cooperative Communications......Page 454
Data Gathering in Correlated
Wireless Sensor Networks with
Cooperative Transmission......Page 496
Cooperative Broadcast in
Large-Scale Wireless Networks......Page 522
Section 6
An Industrial Perspective on
Cooperative Communications......Page 546
Cooperative Communication
System Architectures for
Cellular Networks......Page 547
Compilation of References......Page 573
About the Contributors......Page 609
Index......Page 623