Ultra-Dense Networks for 5G and Beyond: Modelling, Analysis, and Applications

Offers comprehensive insight into the theory, models, and techniques of ultra-dense networks and applications in 5G and other emerging wireless networks

The need for speed―and power―in wireless communications is growing exponentially. Data rates are projected to increase by a factor of ten every five years―and with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) predicted to wirelessly connect trillions of devices across the globe, future mobile networks (5G) will grind to a halt unless more capacity is created. This book presents new research related to the theory and practice of all aspects of ultra-dense networks, covering recent advances in ultra-dense networks for 5G networks and beyond, including cognitive radio networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), device-to-device (D2D) communications, millimeter-wave communications, and energy harvesting communications.

Clear and concise throughout, Ultra-Dense Networks for 5G and Beyond - Modelling, Analysis, and Applications offers a comprehensive coverage on such topics as network optimization; mobility, handoff control, and interference management; and load balancing schemes and energy saving techniques. It delves into the backhaul traffic aspects in ultra-dense networks and studies transceiver hardware impairments and power consumption models in ultra-dense networks. The book also examines new IoT, smart-grid, and smart-city applications, as well as novel modulation, coding, and waveform designs.

• One of the first books to focus solely on ultra-dense networks for 5G in a complete presentation
• Covers advanced architectures, self-organizing protocols, resource allocation, user-base station association, synchronization, and signaling
• Examines the current state of cell-free massive MIMO, distributed massive MIMO, and heterogeneous small cell architectures
• Offers network measurements, implementations, and demos
• Looks at wireless caching techniques, physical layer security, cognitive radio, energy harvesting, and D2D communications in ultra-dense networks

Ultra-Dense Networks for 5G and Beyond - Modelling, Analysis, and Applications is an ideal reference for those who want to design high-speed, high-capacity communications in advanced networks, and will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers, and engineers in the field. 

TRUNG Q. DUONG, PHD, is a Reader at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

XIAOLI CHU, PHD, is a Reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, and is an Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and the IEEE Communications Letters.

HIMAL A. SURAWEERA, PHD, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and serves as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.