A self-contained guide to the state-of-the-art in cooperative communications and networking techniques for next generation cellular wireless systems.

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Network architectures and research issues in cooperative cellular wireless networks Aria Nosratinia and Ahmadreza Hedayat; 2. Cooperative communications in OFDM and MIMO cellular relay networks: issues and approaches Mohammad Moghaddari and Ekram Hossain; Part II. Cooperative Base Station Techniques: 3. Cooperative base station techniques for cellular wireless networks Wibowo Hardjawana, Branka Vucetic and Yonghui Li; 4. Turbo base stations Emre Aktas, Defne Aktas, Stephen Hanly and Jamie Evans; 5. Antenna architectures for network MIMO Li-Chun Wang and Chu-Jung Yeh; Part III. Relay-Based Cooperative Cellular Wireless Networks: 6. Distributed space-time block codes Matthew C. Valenti and Daryl Reynolds; 7. Collaborative relaying in downlink cellular systems C. Raman, G. Foschini, R. Valenzuela, R. Yates and N. Mandayam; 8. Radio resource optimization in cooperative cellular wireless networks Shankhanaad Mallick, Praveen Kaligineedi, Mohammad M. Rashid and Vijay K. Bhargava; 9. Adaptive resource allocation in cooperative cellular networks Wei Yu, Taesoo Kwon and Changyong Shin; 10. Cross-layer scheduling design for cooperative wireless two-way relay networks Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and Robert Schober; 11. Green communications in cellular networks with fixed relay nodes Peter Rost and Gerhard Fettweis; 12. Network coding in relay-based networks Hong Xu and Baochun Li; Part IV. Game Theoretic Models for Cooperative Cellular Wireless Networks: 13. Coalitional games for cooperative cellular wireless networks Walid Saad, Zhu Han and Are Hjørungnes; 14. Modeling malicious behavior in cooperative cellular wireless networks Ninoslav Marina, Walid Saad, Zhu Han and Are Hjørungnes; Part V. Standardization Activities: 15. Cooperative communications in 3GPP LTE-Advanced standard Hichan Moon, Bruno Clerckx and Farooq Khan; 16. Partial information relaying and relaying in 3GPP LTE Dong In Kim, Wan Choi, Hanbyul Seo and Byoung-Hoon Kim; 17. Coordinated multi-point transmission in LTE-Advanced Sung-Rae Cho, Wan Choi, Young-Jo Ko and Jae-Young Ahn.