This book advocates the idea of breaking up the cellular communication architecture by introducing cooperative strategies among wireless devices through cognitive wireless networking. It is divided into different parts dealing with cooperative and cognitive aspects for future wireless communication networks. Chapters written by world leading researchers in the field cover, among others, social and biological inspired behavior applied to wireless networks, peer-to-peer networking, cognitive radio or more generally cognitive networks, cooperative networks, game theory, spectrum sensing and management. In addition, tools and methodologies for modeling and analyzing cooperative and cognitive interactions in wireless networks are explained in detail to facilitate access to this advanced research topic.

Contains hot topics and emerging research concepts First volume mostly dealt with rather well studied (but new) concepts This second volume focuses on upcoming ideas and technologies, some of them already hot topics and some of them clearly becoming the hot topics of the future

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Frank H. P. Fitzek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark heading the Future Vision group. His current research interests are in the areas of 4G wireless communication networks, cross layer protocol design and cooperative networking.

Dr. Fitzek received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 for quality of service support in wireless CDMA networks. As a visiting student at the Arizona State University he conducted research in the field of video services over wireless networks. He co-founded the start-up company acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. In 2002 he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy giving lectures on wireless communications and conducting research on multi-hop networks. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC.

Inhalt
Introductory Chapter.- Cooperative and Cognitive Networks: A Motivating Introduction.- Cellular Controlled Peer to Peer Communications: Overview and Potentials.- Cooperative Networks: Social, Operational and Communicational Aspects.- Applying Evolutionary Approaches for Cooperation.- The Social Qualities of Pervasive Wireless Networks.- Encouraging Cooperative Interaction among Network Entities.- Competition and Cooperation in Wireless Multi-Access Networks.- A Cooperative ID for 4G.- Implementing Cooperative Wireless Networks.- Scalable Cooperation in Multi-Terminal Half-Duplex Relay Networks.- Trigger Management and Mobile Node Cooperation.- Cooperative Mobile Positioning in 4G Wireless Networks.- Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Based on Fields of Interest.- Cognitive Networks.- Introducing Cognitive Systems to the B3G Wireless World.- Architectures and Protocols for Next Generation Cognitive Networking.- Scheduling in Cognitive Networks.- Design of Terminals and Infrastructure Components for Cognitive Wireless Networks.- Fundamental Limits of Cognitive Radio Networks.- Spectrum Awareness: Techniques and Challenges for Active Spectrum Sensing.- Robust Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio Networks.- Marrying Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Networks.- Cognitive Resource Manager.- The C-Cube Concept - Combining Cross-Layer Protocol Design, Cognitive-, and Cooperative Network Concepts.- Cellular Controlled P2P Communication Using Software Defined Radio.- A Cooperative Scheme Enabling Spatial Reuse in Wireless Networks.- On the Energy Saving Potential in DVB-H Networks Exploiting Cooperation among Mobile Devices.- Cooperative Retransmission for Reliable Wireless Multicast Services.- IP Header Compression for Cellular-Controlled P2P Networks.- Cluster Based Cooperative Uplink Access in Centralized Wireless Networks.- Methodologies and Tools.- Cooperation for Cognitive Networks: A Game Theoretic Perspective.- Spectrum Sharing Games of Network Operators and Cognitive Radios.- to NetLogo.- Analysis of Cooperative Power Saving Strategies with NetLogo.- Visions, Prospects and Emerging Technologies.- Cooperation in Optical Wireless Communications.- Evolution of Digital Radios.- CogMesh: A Cluster Based Cognitive Radio Mesh Network.- Coordinating User and Device Behavior in Wireless Grids.