As a cross between the natural and engineering is always beneficial, Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications support the use of cooperative strategies in the field of wireless communications. Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications covers the underlying principles of cooperative techniques as well as several applications demonstrate the use of such techniques in practical systems. Twenty chapters introduce and discuss in detail the main cooperative strategies for the entire communication protocol stack from the application layer to physical layer. The book also summarizes the strength of cooperation for future generation wireless communication systems, clearly motivating the use of cooperative techniques and shows that cooperation will become one of the key technologies enabling 4G and beyond.