Cooperative Communications (Foundations and Trends in Networking)

✍ Scribed by Gerhard Kramer, Ivana Maric, Roy, D. Yates

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cooperative Communications reviews progress in cooperative communication networks. It assembles a representative sample of recent results to serve as a roadmap for the area. The emphasis is on wireless networks, but many of the results apply to cooperation in wireline networks and mixed wireless/wireline networks. Cooperative Communications is intended as a tutorial for the reader who is familiar with information theory concepts but has not actively followed the field. For the active researcher, it serves as an invaluable digest of significant results. It is designed to encourage readers to find new ways to apply the fundamental ideas of network cooperation. It is also intended to make the area sufficiently accessible to practicing network designers.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction......Page 12
Networking Protocols......Page 14
Objectives and Outline......Page 15
Network Layering......Page 18
Physical Layer: Communication Theory......Page 21
Link Layer: ARQ and HARQ Protocols......Page 30
Network Layer: Wireless Routing Protocols......Page 31
Wireline Network Models......Page 38
Wireless Channel Models......Page 41
Wireless Device Models......Page 45
Wireless Capacity and Channel State Information......Page 46
Mixed Networks......Page 48
Source and Destination Models......Page 49
Network Capacity......Page 54
Wireline Strategies......Page 62
Wireless Strategies......Page 69
Half-Duplex Strategies and Mode Modulation......Page 90
Multi-Antenna Relaying......Page 93
Code Design for Relaying......Page 97
Introduction......Page 102
Performance Metrics......Page 103
System Model......Page 110
Cooperative Strategies for High SNR......Page 111
Relaying Strategies for Low SNR......Page 119
Multiplexing Gain for Wireless Networks......Page 124
Other Models and Methods......Page 126
Introduction......Page 130
Wireless Cooperation Issues......Page 131
Networking Mechanisms......Page 133
Conventional PHY Layer Architecture......Page 134
Cooperative PHY Layer Architecture......Page 136
Proposed Cooperative Diversity Protocols......Page 139
Experimental Performance Comparisons......Page 146
Design Comparisons......Page 148
A Contrarian View......Page 150
Final Remarks......Page 154
Acknowledgements......Page 156
References......Page 158