| Preface | p. xi |
| Background and MIMO systems | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Wireless channels | p. 4 |
| Characterizing performance through channel capacity | p. 22 |
| Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) | p. 25 |
| Diversity in wireless channels | p. 29 |
| Cooperation diversity | p. 40 |
| Bibliographical notes | p. 42 |
| Space-time diversity and coding | p. 43 |
| System model and performance criteria | p. 43 |
| Space-time coding | p. 47 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 60 |
| Exercises | p. 61 |
| Space-time-frequency diversity and coding | p. 64 |
| Space-frequency diversity and coding | p. 64 |
| Space-time-frequency diversity and coding | p. 98 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 113 |
| Exercises | p. 114 |
| Cooperative communications | p. 117 |
| Relay channels and protocols | p. 119 |
| Cooperative communications | p. 119 |
| Cooperation protocols | p. 121 |
| Hierarchical cooperation | p. 138 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 148 |
| Exercises | p. 150 |
| Cooperative communications with single relay | p. 152 |
| System model | p. 152 |
| SER analysis for DF protocol | p. 155 |
| SER analysis for AF protocol | p. 170 |
| Comparison of DF and AF cooperation gains | p. 181 |
| Trans-modulation in relay communications | p. 186 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 190 |
| Exercises | p. 192 |
| Multi-node cooperative communications | p. 194 |
| Multi-node decode-and-forward protocol | p. 194 |
| Multi-node amplify-and-forward protocol | p. 217 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 234 |
| Exercises | p. 235 |
| Distributed space-time and space-frequency coding | p. 238 |
| Distributed space-time coding (DSTC) | p. 238 |
| Distributed space-frequency coding (DSFC) | p. 256 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 273 |
| p. 274 |
| Exercises | p. 275 |
| Relay selection: when to cooperate and with whom | p. 278 |
| Motivation and relay-selection protocol | p. 278 |
| Performance analysis | p. 282 |
| Multi-node scenario | p. 289 |
| Optimum power allocation | p. 295 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 301 |
| Exercises | p. 302 |
| Differential modulation for cooperative communications | p. 306 |
| Differential modulation | p. 306 |
| Differential modulations for DF cooperative communications | p. 308 |
| Differential modulations for AF cooperative communications | p. 347 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 370 |
| Exercises | p. 372 |
| Energy efficiency in cooperative sensor networks | p. 374 |
| System model | p. 374 |
| Performance analysis and optimum power allocation | p. 377 |
| Multi-relay scenario | p. 381 |
| Experimental results | p. 383 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 390 |
| Exercises | p. 391 |
| Cooperative networking | p. 393 |
| Cognitive multiple access via cooperation | p. 395 |
| System model | p. 396 |
| Cooperative cognitive multiple access (CCMA) protocols | p. 399 |
| Stability analysis | p. 401 |
| Throughout region | p. 423 |
| Delay analysis | p. 424 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 429 |
| Exercises | p. 429 |
| Content-aware cooperative multiple access | p. 432 |
| System model | p. 433 |
| Content-aware cooperative multiple access protocol | p. 437 |
| Dynamic state model | p. 438 |
| Performance analysis | p. 442 |
| Access contention-cooperation tradeoff | p. 452 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 455 |
| Exercises | p. 456 |
| Distributed cooperative routing | p. 457 |
| Network model and transmission modes | p. 458 |
| Link analysis | p. 461 |
| Cooperation-based routing algorithms | p. 463 |
| Simulation examples | p. 469 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 474 |
| Exercises | p. 475 |
| Source-channel coding with cooperation | p. 478 |
| Joint source-channel coding bit rate allocation | p. 478 |
| Joint source-channel coding with user cooperation | p. 480 |
| The Source-channel-cooperation tradeoff problem | p. 482 |
| Source codec | p. 484 |
| Channel codec | p. 488 |
| Analysis of source-channel-cooperation performance | p. 490 |
| Validation of D-SNR characterization | p. 504 |
| Effects of source-channel-cooperation tradeoffs | p. 505 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 510 |
| Exercises | p. 512 |
| Asymptotic performance of distortion exponents | p. 514 |
| Systems setup for source-channel diversity | p. 515 |
| Multi-hop channels | p. 519 |
| Relay channels | p. 532 |
| Discussion | p. 545 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 547 |
| Exercises | p. 548 |
| Coverage expansion with cooperation | p. 550 |
| System model | p. 550 |
| Relay assignment: protocols and analysis | p. 553 |
| Relay assignment algorithms | p. 557 |
| Numerical results | p. 563 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 566 |
| Exercises | p. 566 |
| Broadband cooperative communications | p. 569 |
| System model | p. 569 |
| Cooperative protocol and relay-assignment scheme | p. 571 |
| Performance analysis | p. 573 |
| Performance lower bound | p. 577 |
| Optimum relay location | p. 578 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 580 |
| Exercises | p. 581 |
| Network lifetime maximization via cooperation | p. 583 |
| Introduction | p. 583 |
| System models | p. 584 |
| Lifetime maximization by employing a cooperative node | p. 588 |
| Deploying relays to improve device lifetime | p. 597 |
| Simulation examples | p. 601 |
| Chapter summary and bibliographical notes | p. 605 |
| Exercises | p. 607 |
| References | p. 609 |
| Index | p. 623 |
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