Future wireless communication systems are expected to provide services to various vastly different applications, ranging from Internet of Things (IoT), mobile broadband, to vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications. This book explores recent advances in theory and practice of radio access network slicing for 5G and beyond communication system to support various industrial sectors including manufacturing, entertainment, public safety, public transport, healthcare, financial services, automotive and energy utilities. The book covers four aspects; physical waveforms design, multiple service signals coexistence, Radio Access Network Slicing (RAN) slicing and virtualization, and applications to the vertical industries. This timely book proposes to address a challenging research issue of the radio slices co-existence of various communication services with vastly different requirements coving 5G defined all three main communication scenarios. This is a very important topic as network slicing has been focused on core network function virtualisation to date and this is a pioneering research from radio air-interface perspective to achieve the true end-to-end configurable network slicing for the future diverse radio system. This book has the potential to influence 5G-and-beyond standards pertaining to the radio access schemes envisioned for use beyond 2020.

Lei Zhang, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK. He received his PhD degree from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a research fellow in the 5G Innovation Centre at the Institute of Communications, University of Surrey, UK. His research interests include wireless communication systems and networks, blockchain technology, radio access network slicing (RAN slicing), Internet of Things (IoT), multi-antenna signal processing, MIMO systems, and many more. 

Arman Farhang, PhD, received his PhD from the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University. His research interests and activities are in the broad area of signal processing for communications, waveform design, signal processing for multiuser and multiple antenna systems. 

Gang Feng, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He received his MEng degree in Electronic Engineering from UESTC and his PhD in information engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Oluwakayode Onireti, PhD is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK. He received an MSc degree in mobile and satellite communication and a PhD in electronics engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.  

 

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Preface

Part 1: Waveforms and Mixed-Numerology

Ch 1: ICI Cancellation Techniques Based on Data Repetition for OFDM Systems

Ch 2: Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing:  Unified Multicarrier Framework

Ch 3:  Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation based Filter Bank Multicarrier System

Ch 4: Low Electromagnetic Emission Wireless Network Technologies 5G and Beyond

Ch 5: Filtered OFDM: an Insight into Intrinsic In-Band Interference

Ch 6: Multi-Numerology Waveform Parameter Assignment in 5G

Part 2: RAN Slicing and 5G vertical industries

Ch 7: Network Slicing with Spectrum Sharing

Ch 8: Access Control and Handoff Policy Design for RAN slicing

Ch 9: Robust RAN Slicing

Ch 10: Flexible function split over Ethernet Enabling RAN Slicing

Ch 11:  Service oriented RAN Support of Network Slicing

Ch 12: 5G Network Slicing for V2X Communications: Technologies and Enablers

Ch 13: Optimizing Resource Allocation in URLLC for Real-Time Wireless Control Systems