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Cooperative Communications
Foundations and Trends® in
Networking
Volume 1 Issue 3-4
DOI: 10.1561/1300000004
Cooperative Communications
Gerhard Kramer
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974,USA, gkr@bell-labs.com
Ivana Marić
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305,USA,
ivanam@systems.stanford.edu
Roy D. Yates
WINLAB, Rutgers University, North Brunswick, New Jersey 08902,USA,
ryates@winlab.rutgers.edu
Abstract
This article reviews progress in cooperative communication networks. Our survey is by no means exhaustive. Instead, we assemble
a representative sample of recent results to serve as a roadmap for the area. Our emphasis is on wireless networks, but many
of the results apply to cooperation in wireline networks and mixed wireless/wireline networks. We intend our presentation
to be a tutorial for the reader who is familiar with information theory concepts but has not actively followed the field.
For the active researcher, this contribution should serve as a useful digest of significant results. This article is meant
to encourage readers to find new ways to apply the ideas of network cooperation and should make the area sufficiently accessible
to network designers to contribute to the advancement of networking practice.
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