Cooperative Communications and Networking

K. J. Ray Liu is a Distinguished Scholar - Teacher of the University of Maryland, College Park, and the recipient of numerous honors and awards including best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society (twice), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and EURASIP. Ahmed K. Sadek is Senior Systems Engineer with Corporate Research and Development, Qualcomm Incorporated, and he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007. Weifeng Su is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, State University New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Nankai University in 1999, followed by his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2002. Andres Kwasinski is Software Design Engineer at Texas Instruments Inc., Communication Infrastructure Group, and he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2004.

'The authors treat the concept of space-time-frequency diversity, multi-input, multi-output (MIMO), and user-cooperation with a comprehensive and systematic approach to principal topics and hence make the book more than an introductory text. … [it] is particularly well suited for a one-semester advanced graduate course in electrical engineering … Liu, Sadek, Su and Kwasinski's book provides a … thorough treatment of material that is at the cutting edge of cooperative communication over wireless network, and its treatment of cooperative communication is … advanced. Overall, Cooperative Communications and Networking is an excellent, reader friendly book. … [it] will have a lasting impact upon those involved in cooperative communications research.' IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

• Preface; Part I. Background and MIMO Systems: 1. Introduction; 2. Space-time diversity and coding; 3. Space-time-frequency diversity and coding; Part II. Cooperative Communications: 4. Relay channels and protocols; 5. Cooperative communications with single relay; 6. Multi-node cooperative communications; 7. Distributed space-time and space-frequency coding; 8. Relay selection: when to cooperate with whom; 9. Differential modulation for cooperative communications; 10. Energy efficiency in cooperative sensor networks; Part III. Cooperative Networking: 11. Cognitive multiple-access via cooperation; 12. Content-aware cooperative multiple-access; 13. Distributed cooperative routing; 14. Source-channel coding with cooperation; 15. Asymptotic performance of distortion exponents; 16. Coverage expansion with cooperation; 17. Broadband cooperative communications; 18. Network lifetime maximization via cooperation; Bibliography; Index.