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...

This study enhances the awareness of stakeholders about the technological development in financial institutions and its role to improve performance & growth of banking sector. This study also creates understanding about Interest Rate Spread (IRS), which is a prominent indicator of efficiency of the banking sector. IRS, in an economy, has crucial implication for the growth and development, as numerous authors suggest a critical link between efficient intermediate and economic growth. Efficient intermediation benefits the real economy by allowing higher expected return for saver and providing...