Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications

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.

This book 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.

Topics include:

• Broadband cooperative communications
• Coding schemes
• Cooperative communications
• Distributed transmit
• Energy efficient communication
• Mathematical tools for cooperative networks
• Receive diversity techniques
• Relay selection
• Virtual antenna array applications
• Wireless network transmission