Cooperation is known as an effective strategy in nature to achieve
individual or common goals by forming cooperative groups.
As the cross over between nature and engineering has always been
fruitful, Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and
Applications advocates the use of cooperative strategies in the field
of wireless communications.
Whether to cooperate or act autonomously, i.e., in a more selfish
manner, has to be decided by each wireless terminal individually.
Following the rule "The real egoistic behavior is to cooperate", mutual
aid among terminals will be applied if and only if it is beneficial for
all group members.
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.
