Key Features
- Features strong focus on practical considerations, implementation, and deployment issues
- Takes a top-down approach to explain system operation and functional interconnection
- Covers all functional components, features, and interfaces based on clear protocol structure and block diagrams
- Describes RF and transceiver design considerations in sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands
- Covers network slicing, SDN/NFV/MEC networks and cloud, and virtualized RAN architectures
- Comprehensive coverage of NR multiantenna techniques and beamformed operation
- A consistent and integrated coverage reflecting the author’s decades of experience in developing 3G, 4G, and 5G technologies and writing two successful books in these areas
Introduction and Background
Introduction to 5G key performance indicators and system requirements, 5G standardization activities within and outside 3GPP, ITU-R, etc.
Chapter 1: 5G Network Architecture
Design principles and network topologies, C-RAN and V-RAN architectures and disaggregated base station model
SDN/NFV/MEC, Network slicing, Reference architectures, and Network entities and interfaces
Chapter 2: New Radio Access Layer 2 and Layer 3 Aspects and System Operation
Overview of layer 2 and layer 3 functions, Layer 2 functions and services, Layer 3 functions and services, UE states and state transitions, Scheduling and RRM, DRX and power saving modes, Mobility management, handover and UE measurements, Random-access procedure, Multi-connectivity, and Carrier aggregation
Chapter 3: New Radio Access Physical Layer Aspects (Part 1)
Channel models and propagation characteristics, Waveforms, Multiple access schemes, Duplex schemes, and Resource allocation schemes
Chapter 4: New Radio Access Physical Layer Aspects (Part 2)
Downlink/uplink physical layer functions (Frame structure, Reference signals, Control channels, Synchronization, Coding and modulation schemes, HARQ protocols, MIMO and beamforming schemes, Beam management), Power control, and Random-access procedure
Chapter 5: New Radio Access RF and Transceiver Design Considerations
Radio parameters and spectrum, General base station/UE RF requirements, Conducted and radiated base station/UE transceiver characteristics, Radio resource management specifications, Direct RF sampling transceivers, High-speed ADCs/DACs and semiconductor technologies, Sub-6 GHz/mmWave transceiver and antenna design considerations, Large antenna array design and implementation in sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands
Chapter 6: Internet of Things (NB-IoT and mMTC)
General aspects, use cases and architecture, Physical layer aspects, Layer 2/3 aspects, Implementation considerations
Chapter 7: Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communications
General aspects, use cases and architecture, Physical layer aspects, Layer 2/3 aspects, Implementation considerations
Chapter 8: Operation in Unlicensed and Shared Spectrum
General aspects, use cases and architecture, Physical layer aspects, Layer 2/3 aspects, Implementation considerations
