This chapter provides an overview of the information theoretic foundations of cooperative communications. Earlier information theoretic achievements as well as the more recent developments are discussed. The analysis accounts for full/half-duplex nodes, and for multiple relays. Various channel models such as discrete memoryless, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels are consi...

Several studies stressed that the introduction of CPOE applications deteriorates the doctor-nurse communication. But there are many factors that might influence communication behaviors, as for example the way these communications are organized. The present study aims at showing that the impact of a CPOE system on the cooperative activities can be controlled given that a good understanding of th...

The high lever goal of the research activities in our groups is to extend the conventional information theory to develop theoretical tools that can be applied to a broader range of problems, including dynamic communications, networks, real-time communications, cooperative communications, etc. and even beyond the realm of communications, to understand the information exchange in algorithms, soci...

This Ph.D. dissertation reports on the work performed at the Wireless Communication Laboratory University of Bologna and National Research Council as well as, for six months, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuit (IIS) in Nürnberg. The work of this thesis is in the area of wireless communications, especially with regards to cooperative communications aspects in narrowband and ultra...

Radio frequency (RF) energy transfer and harvesting has been intensively studied recently as a promising approach to significantly extend the lifetime of energy-constrained wireless networks. This technique has a great potential to provide relatively stable and continuous RF energy to devices wirelessly, it thus opened a new research paradigm, termed wireless-powered communication (WPC), which ...