Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Communications

Wireless systems depend on more than faster connections: antennas, signal processing, spectrum, network design, security, and intelligent resource use all shape what a generation of technology can deliver. This edited collection brings those interlocking concerns together, with a focus on the research and engineering behind current and next-generation wireless communications.

Its chapters range from 5G and massive MIMO to visible-light communication, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, and physical-layer security. The result is a broad, technically oriented view of the field—useful for readers who want to explore specific research areas as well as the larger framework connecting them.

Explore the technologies behind wireless systems

The book considers how wireless communications have developed and what capabilities future systems demand. Across its topics, readers encounter the technical building blocks that help networks handle communication, mobility, sensing, and emerging applications.

From MIMO and 5G to the Internet of Things

• Multiantenna communications: chapters address large-scale and massive MIMO, channel estimation in MIMO-OFDM systems, and image transmission using MIMO-OFDM.
• 5G network design: topics include antenna design challenges, beamforming-based cognitive radio, and distributed intelligent networks.
• Alternative and specialized approaches: the collection covers visible-light communication, wireless sensor network localization, and physical-layer security.
• Connected applications: Internet of Everything and IoT-related systems feature among the areas considered.

See how technical choices connect

Wireless communications draw on several closely related disciplines, including signal processing, communication theory, antenna design, channel modeling, artificial intelligence, and security. Bringing these subjects into one volume helps readers place individual techniques within the wider system—and consider how engineering developments relate to network applications and business models.

For research and advanced study

With contributions organized as specialist chapters, this collection is suited to researchers, engineers, technologists, policy decision-makers, and graduate students working in wireless communications or neighboring fields. Readers can use its range of subjects to orient their exploration of 5G-era systems and the technologies informing future wireless networks.