This book explores the potential of 5G technologies and beyond in smart city setups, with the availability of high bandwidths and performance, and low latency. The book starts with an introduction to 5G, along with the challenges, limitations, and research areas in future wireless communication, including the related requirements for transformation of societal paradigms and infrastructure. Applications related to visible light communication, network management in smart cities, the role of 5G in public healthcare, safety, security, and transportation, and existing and planned 6G research frameworks are included.
The features of the book include:
- A broad perspective on 5G communications with a focus on smart cities.
- Discussion of artificial intelligence in future wireless communication and its applications.
- A systemic and comprehensive coverage of 6G technologies, challenges, and uses.
- The role of future wireless communications in safety, health, and transport in smart cities.
- Case studies of future wireless communication.
This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in communications, signal processing, cyber-physical systems, and smart cities.
Dr. Ambar Bajpai, SM’IEEE, F’IETE, L'ISTE, is currently working as a research associate professor at Atria Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India. His alma mater are Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (Ph.D. 2016) and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (M. Eng., 2008). Dr. Ambar has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India and abroad. Dr. Bajpai also received various scholarships mainly prestigious graduate school scholarship, 90th-year Research Scholarship, GATE, and Overseas academic presentation scholarship during his Ph.D. and M.Eng. His areas of interests are iterative channel coding in 5G and beyond and visible light communication. He has published more than 42 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences including invited talks in India and abroad related to the broad domain of Wireless Communication. He has been volunteering in IEEE Bangalore section as Branch Counsellor, Founder Secretary in the Information Theory Society Chapter, treasurer and execom role of various technical society chapters.
Dr. Arun Balodi, Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE, Life Member ISTE, is currently working as Professor and Head at Atria Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India. He is an IEEE student branch advisor at the Atria Institute of Technology. Dr. Arun attained his Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 2018, his M. Tech., Digital Signal Processing, from Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri, India, 2010, and a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, 2005. He was awarded Gold Medal in M. Tech., and the Academic Excellence award in the years 2010 and 2011. His research areas are Biomedical Signal and Artificial Intelligence, Digital Signal and Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Arun has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in various institutions in India. He has published more than 28 papers in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and book chapters, and has 3 patents. He is an active researcher and reviewer for various indexed journals and conferences and has given various technical talks. He has actively participated in more than 37 FDPs and more than 100 webinars and conducted workshops in the domain of Signal and Image Processing. He has delivered expert talks at more than 30 STPs, conferences, and webinars.
