Books in Network communications engineering

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Tactile Internet for a Human-Centred Metaverse

• 1st Edition
• July 1, 2025
• Frank H. P. Fitzek + 5 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-30044-8

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• eBook 978-0-443-30045-5

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Tactile Internet for a Human-Centred Metaverse is a ground-breaking, comprehensive guide to the Tactile Internet, an innovative communication platform that merges the physical and digital worlds, transforming how we experience the Metaverse and interact with robots and other cyber-physical systems. From exploring real-world applications in healthcare, industry, education, and beyond, to delving into the cutting-edge components, sensors, and communication systems that underpin this transformation, this book offers a multidisciplinary view of the Tactile Internet revolution. Tactile Internet for a Human-centred Metaverse is an essential read for academic researchers, students, industry professionals and R&D engineers engineers seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date and forward looking approach to understanding the Tactile Internet’s intersection with the Metaverse, together with its far reaching implications.

Understanding Satellite Navigation

• 2nd Edition
• June 2, 2025
• Rajat Acharya
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-36432-7

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• eBook 978-0-443-36433-4

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Understanding Satellite Navigation, 2nd Edition explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations. It helps you to conceptualize the underlying theory from first principles, building up your knowledge gradually using practical demonstrations and worked examples. A full range of MATLAB simulations is used to visualize concepts and solve problems, allowing you to see what happens to signals and systems with different configurations. Implementation and applications are discussed, along with some special topics such as Space Weather, Kalman Filter and Ionosphere.

Cellular IoT

• 1st Edition
• June 1, 2025
• Olof Liberg + 6 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21568-1

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• eBook 978-0-443-21569-8

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Cellular IoT: From 5G to 5G Advanced provides an insightful explanation of 5G IoT technologies and standards. The book goes through the 5G features that are vital for the support of IoT, describing how the 5G New Radio (NR) access technology has been designed to support industrial IoT, and how it has been adapted to provide cost and energy efficient connectivity, as well as providing high data rates at a low latency to support immerse experience or time-critical communications. It also discusses the future of massive IoT and how 3GPP is about to extend its support for near zero-energy and low complexity devices.These forward-looking features will help evolve 5G and 5G Advanced toward realizing 6G visions such as a connected, sustainable, digitalized, and programmable physical world.

6G-life

• 1st Edition
• May 1, 2025
• Frank H. P. Fitzek + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-27410-7

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• eBook 978-0-443-27411-4

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6G-Life: Unveiling the Future of Technological Sovereignty, Sustainability and Trustworthiness, gives a journey into the multifaceted landscape of 6G technologies. It transcends the conventional boundaries of wireless communication as it dives into groundbreaking areas like joint sensing and communication, terahertz frequencies, and optical links, while also delving into quantum communication and molecular communication, revealing the captivating potential of these emerging fields. The book's comprehensive approach ensures that readers are equipped to navigate the complexities of 6G not just theoretically, but with a clear roadmap for practical implementation. With insights drawn from the collaborative efforts of over 200 esteemed researchers in the groundbreaking 6G-Life project, the book presents an unparalleled depth of knowledge, seamlessly bridging the gap between theoretical exploration and practical application, making it an indispensable resource for researchers, industry engineers and students eager to explore the cutting-edge realm of 6G.

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design

• 2nd Edition
• April 1, 2025
• Wim Rouwet
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-32840-4

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• eBook 978-0-443-32841-1

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Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design, 2nd edition, gives a jump start to engineers developing O-RAN hardware and software systems, providing a top-down approach to O-RAN systems design from an author with a silicon, software, and system background. It gives an introduction into why wireless systems look the way they do today before introducing relevant O-RAN and 3GPP standards. The remainder of the book discusses hardware and software aspects of O-RAN system design, including dimensioning and performance targets, and some practical use case examples that include 5G advanced topics. This edition includes comprehensive updates in key areas such as postquantum security and radio unit design. Additionally, it addresses emerging 5G advanced topics, including Industrial & URLLC, nonterrestrial networking, the role of artificial intelligence, 5G reduced capabilities for IoT, and self-organizing networks.

Resource Optimization in Wireless Communications

• 1st Edition
• January 23, 2025
• Lie-Liang Yang + 5 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-30092-9

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• eBook 978-0-443-30093-6

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Resource Optimization in Wireless Communications: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications provides an easy-to-understand overview of the fundamentals of resource optimization, along with the latest algorithms and applications for emerging 5G, and beyond, wireless systems offering a variety of services. Additionally, it covers the principles and resource optimization of some systems expected in 6G.This book is suitable for courses in wireless communications that cover the principles of multicarrier and OFDM, the theory of resource allocation, power allocation, and subcarrier allocation, as well as the principles and optimization of OTFS, ISAC, reflective intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted mmWave, and user-centric cell-free wireless systems. It is also an ideal self-study reference text for researchers and industry engineers who wish to deepen their knowledge while researching and developing wireless systems for 6G.

Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks

• 1st Edition
• November 9, 2024
• Aryan Kaushik
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-22143-9

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• eBook 978-0-443-22144-6

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Integrated Sensing and Communications for Future Wireless Networks: Principles, Advances and Key Enabling Technologies presents the principles, methods, and algorithms of ISAC, an overview of the essential enabling technologies, as well as the latest research and future directions. Suitable for academic researchers and post graduate students as well as industry R&D engineers, this book is the definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field that is being seen as a technology to enable emerging applications such as vehicular networks, environmental monitoring, remote sensing, IoT, smart cities.Importantly, ISAC has been identified as an enabling technology for B5G/6G, and the next-generation Wi-Fi system. ISAC brings together a range of technologies: radar sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic surfaces through to high frequency terahertz, PHY security, channel signaling, multiple access, and machine learning.

5G/5G-Advanced

• 3rd Edition
• November 21, 2023
• Erik Dahlman + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-13173-8

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• eBook 978-0-443-13174-5

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5G Advanced: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, Third Edition follows the authors' highly celebrated books on 3G and 4G by providing a new level of insight into 5G NR. After an initial discussion of the background to 5G, including requirements, spectrum aspects and the standardization timeline, all technology features of the first phase of NR are described in detail. Included is a detailed description of the NR physical-layer structure and higher-layer protocols, RF and spectrum aspects and co-existence and interworking with LTE. This book provides a good understanding of NR and the different NR technology components, giving insight into why a certain solution was selected.

Quantum Communication, Quantum Networks, and Quantum Sensing

• 1st Edition
• July 14, 2022
• Ivan B. Djordjevic
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-822942-2

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• eBook 978-0-12-823100-5

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Quantum Communication, Quantum Networks, and Quantum Sensing represents a self-contained introduction to quantum communication, quantum error-correction, quantum networks, and quantum sensing. It starts with basic concepts from classical detection theory, information theory, and channel coding fundamentals before continuing with basic principles of quantum mechanics including state vectors, operators, density operators, measurements, and dynamics of a quantum system. It continues with fundamental principles of quantum information processing, basic quantum gates, no-cloning and theorem on indistinguishability of arbitrary quantum states. The book then focuses on quantum information theory, quantum detection and Gaussian quantum information theories, and quantum key distribution (QKD). The book then covers quantum error correction codes (QECCs) before introducing quantum networks. The book concludes with quantum sensing and quantum radars, quantum machine learning and fault-tolerant quantum error correction concepts.

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design

• 1st Edition
• February 26, 2022
• Wim Rouwet
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-91923-4

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• eBook 978-0-323-91922-7

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Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design gives a jump-start to engineers developing O-RAN hardware and software systems, providing a top-down approach to O-RAN systems design. It gives an introduction into why wireless systems look the way they do today before introducing relevant O-RAN and 3GPP standards. The remainder of the book discusses hardware and software aspects of O-RAN system design, including dimensioning and performance targets.