Cooperative communications is a new communication archetype that enables different users or nodes in a wireless network to share their resources and antennas for distributed transmission/reception. This book identifies a common problem of unbalanced energy consumption in multi-hop cooperative network and then analyzes and develops different proposed solutions and finally presents a cross layer framework for energy efficient cooperative communications in multi-hop wireless networks with a goal to provide significant improvements in average symbol/packet error rate, and the throughput with respect to other transmission parameters.

Irfan Ahmed received the PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2008. He has been postdoctoral researcher in Qatar University from 2010 to 2011. He has been associated with telecom industry for seven years. He is the recipient of KACST Large Research Project grant 2011