Cooperative Wireless Cellular Systems: An Information-Theoretic View (Foundations and Trends(r) in Communications and Information)

Cooperative Wireless Cellular Systems provides an information-theoretic view of the advantages of cooperation in wireless cellular systems. Cooperative communication refers to the coordinated transmission or reception by some nodes of a given communication network. In the context of wireless cellular systems, cooperation is being currently studied in both academic research activities and standardization efforts in two different forms: Multi-cell Processing (MCP) and Relaying. The monograph offers a timely review of results in the literature and does so in a unified fashion that reveals their connection and illuminates general conclusions. The treatment is selfcontained and is written at a level which favors intuition over detailed technical analysis. The reader is thus presented with an overview of the state-of-the-art of this important topic which serves as a starting point for further research. The extensive references specify which papers should be read for in-depth research. Cooperative Wireless Cellular Systems is for all researchers working in the fields of wireless communications and information theory.