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5G and Beyond (Springer Tracts in Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
by Bharat Bhushan Raghvendra Kumar Sudhir Kumar Sharma Ishaani PriyadarshiniThis open-access book aims to highlight the coming surge of 5G network-based applications and predicts that the centralized networks and their current capacity will be incapable of meeting the demands. The book emphasizes the benefits and challenges associated with the integration of 5G networks with varied applications. Further, the book gathers and investigates the most recent 5G-based research solutions that handle security and privacy threats while considering resource-constrained wireless devices. The information, applications, and recent advances discussed in this book will serve to be of immense help to practitioners, database professionals, and researchers.
5G and Beyond Wireless Networks: Technology, Network Deployments, and Materials for Antenna Design (Materials, Devices, and Circuits)
by Ghanshyam Singh Shubham Tayal Vijay Shanker Tripathi Indrasen Singh Niraj Pratap Singh5G and Beyond Wireless Networks: Technology, Network Deployments, and Materials for Antenna Design offers a comprehensive overview of 5G and beyond 5G wireless networks along with emerging technologies that support the design and development of wireless networks. It also includes discussions on various materials used for practical antenna design which are suitable for 5G, beyond 5G applications, and cell-free massive MIMO systems.The book discusses the latest techniques used in 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) communication, such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), device-to-device (D2D) communication, 6G ultra-dense O-RAN, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA), simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), massive multiple input multiple output (mMIMO), and cell-free massive MIMO systems, which are explained in detail for 5G and beyond cellular networks. The description of NOMA and their benefit for 5G and beyond networks is also addressed along with D2D communication for next generation cellular networks. RSMA technique is also explained for 6G communication. Detailed descriptions for the design and development of 5G and beyond networks over various techniques are included. The materials specification to design antenna for 5G application are also given.The role of metalens in designing effective antennas and material specifications for 5G applications is explained in this book. Apart from the above emerging topics, this book also gives ideas about intelligent communication, Internet of Multimedia Things (IOMT), millimeter-wave MIMO-UFMC, and fog computing cloud networks. The last chapter gives details about the legal frameworks for 5G technology for responsible and sustainable deployment. Overall, this book may benefit network design engineers and researchers working in the area of next generation cellular networks.The contents of this book will be helpful for young researchers and master students, and network design engineers who are working in the area of next generation cellular networks.
5G and Beyond Wireless Transport Technologies: Enabling Backhaul, Midhaul, and Fronthaul
by Douglas H MoraisThis text covers the key technologies employed in wireless links that enable increased data rates and thus are likely to be employed in support of 5G wireless transport networks, i.e., backhaul, midhaul, and fronthaul networks. The author presents technologies at an introductory level but nonetheless at a level that imparts to the reader a sound understanding of the fundamentals. The book is intended for those practicing engineers and graduate and upper undergraduate students who have an interest in acquiring, where missing, the necessary technology background in order to comprehend the functioning and capability of 5G based wireless transport links. The author focuses on those technologies that are key to achieving the high data rates and high reliability required of this transport. The material is presented in a clear, concise, and mathematically light fashion.Covers key wireless transport (backhaul, midhaul, and fronthaul) technologies for 5G and beyond, presented in a clear tractable fashion;Outlines the basic wireless transport transmitter/receiver terminal architecture, provides specifications of some such terminals, and indicates the link performance afforded by such terminals;Provides sufficient mathematics to make it technically coherent, but not so much as to make it challenging for a reader with no or limited familiarity with these technologies.
5G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Standards
by Xingqin Lin Namyoon LeeThis book provides an accessible and comprehensive tutorial on the key enabling technologies for 5G and beyond, covering both the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art 5G standards. The book begins with a historical overview of the evolution of cellular technologies and addresses the questions on why 5G and what is 5G. Following this, six tutorial chapters describe the fundamental technology components for 5G and beyond. These include modern advancements in channel coding, multiple access, massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), network densification, unmanned aerial vehicle enabled cellular networks, and 6G wireless systems. The second part of this book consists of five chapters that introduce the basics of 5G New Radio (NR) standards developed by 3GPP. These include 5G architecture, protocols, and physical layer aspects. The third part of this book provides an overview of the key 5G NR evolution directions. These directions include ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) enhancements, operation in unlicensed spectrum, positioning, integrated access and backhaul, air-to-ground communication, and non-terrestrial networks with satellite communication.
5G and Beyond: The Future of IoT
by Robin Singh Bhadoria Parag Chatterjee Yadunath PathakThe Internet of Things (IoT) has seen the eventual shift to the "Internet of Everything" in the recent years, unveiling its ubiquitous presence spanning from smart transports to smart healthcare, from smart education to smart shopping. With the 5G rollouts across the different countries of the world, it raises newer perspectives toward the integration of 5G in IoT. For IoT-based smart devices, 5G not only means speed, but also better stability, efficiency, and more secure connectivity. The reach of 5G in IoT is extending in multifarious areas like self-driving vehicles, smart grids for renewable energy, AI-enabled robots on factory floors, intelligent healthcare services . . . The endless list is the real future of 5G in IoT. Features: Fundamental and applied perspectives to 5G integration in IoT Transdisciplinary vision with aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, and hands-on practice tools Discussion of trending research issues in 5G and IoT As 5G technologies catalyze a paradigm shift in the domain of IoT, this book serves as a reference for the researchers in the field of IoT and 5G, proffering the landscape to the trending aspects as well as the key topics of discussion in the years to come.
5G and Next-Gen Consumer Banking Services
by Krunoslav Ris, PhDThe future has already begin. The banking industry needs to adjust, or it will disappear in the next decade. With the help of 5G, next-generation intelligent ATM-like devices will have highly integrated functions and use technologies such as artificial intelligences-assisted self-service contactless interfaces with facial recognition and digital signatures. This book focuses on new experiences that clients can expect when connected to a 5G network with a 5G device. By 2022 we hope that 5G will: Drive accelerated mBanking growth Power augmented reality /virtual reality Make Video shopping experiences more widespread and compelling Enable banks to deploy highly personalized customer service experiences Support time-sensitive banking applications, like online stock trading where milliseconds can determine a gain or loss Improve security and fraud prevention bycomputing and exchanging more data traveling between parties in real-time Enhance mPOS transactions and utilization. 5G holds the potential to accelerate mobile point of sale (MPOS) transaction processing time and improve connectivity In order to explore these topics, this book covers: • Decentralization of the banks • Banking without banks • 5G will change the modern banking industry • Blockchain adoption by the banking industry
5G for Future Wireless Networks: First International Conference, 5GWN 2017, Beijing, China, April 21-23, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #211)
by Haijun Zhang Zhiyong Feng Victor C.M. Leung Yonghui Li Keping Long Zhongshan ZhangThis book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on 5G for Future Wireless Networks, 5GWN 2017, held in Beijing, China, in April 2017. The 64 full papers were selected from 135 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 5G technologies. The exponentially growing data traffic caused by the development of mobile Internet and smart phones requires powerful networks. The fifth generation (5G) techniques are promising to meet the requirements of this explosive data traffic in future mobile communications.
5G in Modo Semplice e Approfondito
by Ajit SinghLa quinta generazione di tecnologie di accesso wireless (5G) si trova di fronte all'arduo compito di soddisfare le costanti richieste di velocità di trasmissione dati e capacità di sistema più elevate, nonché di un'ampia gamma di applicazioni e di requisiti di qualità dell'esperienza (QoE) degli utenti. Sebbene non sia ancora standardizzata, la tecnologia 5G dovrebbe offrire un throughput significativamente più elevato rispetto all'evoluzione a lungo termine (LTE), avere una latenza nell'ordine dei millisecondi ed essere in grado di accogliere e supportare la prevista esplosione dei dispositivi dell'Internet delle cose (IoT). Nuovi tipi di dispositivi (ad esempio sonde, contatori, sensori, attuatori) contribuiranno in modo significativo all'aumento del traffico e nuovi settori di mercato porteranno nuove priorità (ad esempio le infrastrutture critiche). Questo libro è una panoramica completa dello stato attuale del 5G. Spiega tutto, dai casi d'uso più probabili, agli aspetti dello spettro, da un'ampia gamma di opzioni tecnologiche alle potenziali architetture di sistema 5G, ed è un riferimento indispensabile per accademici e professionisti coinvolti nelle comunicazioni wireless e mobili. Vengono riassunti gli sforzi di ricerca a livello mondiale e vengono descritte e spiegate le tecnologie dei componenti chiave, tra cui D2D, comunicazioni a onde millimetriche, massive MIMO, coordinated multi-point, codifica delle reti wireless, gestione delle interferenze e problemi di spettro. Viene affrontata l'importanza del 5G per i settori automobilistico, manifatturiero, energetico, della vendita al dettaglio e dell'assistenza sanitaria, nonché la relazione tra IoT, comunicazioni di tipo macchina e sistemi cyber-fisici. Questo libro fornisce una solida visione dell'evoluzione, dell'architettura, del protocollo dello stack di rete, delle applicazioni e, naturalmente, delle sfide e delle prospettive future del 5G. Con: ● Progettazione dell'architettura 5G ● Comuni
5G, Cybersecurity and Privacy in Developing Countries (River Publishers Series in Communications and Networking)
by Idongesit Williams Kamal Kant Hiran Knud Erik Skouby Prashant Dhotre5G, the emerging technology in mobile communication, is expected to deliver an important and decisive impact on several of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals where universal accessibility to ICTs remains a serious concern. However, cyber security has emerged as a serious challenge, not least because of the increased accessibility and broader usage with associated vulnerability. Developing countries have additional challenges associated with both the expected faster build-up of accessibility and lack of qualified competencies within cyber security. Discussion of these challenges is the overall theme and motivation for this book. Technical topics discussed in the book include: 5G in rural networks Critical infrastructures Open RAN Protection of privacy Cybersecurity and machine learning Cybersecurity and disaster monitoring
5G-Enabled Internet of Things
by Yi Pan Yulei Wu Cheng-Xiang Wang Haojun HuangHow the enabling technologies in 5G as an integral or as a part can seamlessly fuel the IoT revolution is still very challenging. This book presents the state-of-the-art solutions to the theoretical and practical challenges stemming from the integration of 5G enabling technologies into IoTs in support of a smart 5G-enabled IoT paradigm, in terms of network design, operation, management, optimization, and applications. In particular, the technical focus covers a comprehensive understanding of 5G-enabled IoT architectures, converged access networks, smart network management, and emerging applications of 5G-eabled IoT.
5G-Enabled Vehicular Communications and Networking (Wireless Networks)
by Liuqing Yang Xiang Cheng Rongqing ZhangThis book investigates and reviews recent advanced techniques and important applications in vehicular communications and networking (VCN) from a novel perspective of the combination and integration of VCN and connected vehicles, which provides a significant scientific and technical support for future 5G-based VCN.5G-Enabled Vehicular Communications and Networking introduces vehicular channel characteristics, reviews current channel modeling approaches, and then provides a new generic geometry-based stochastic modeling approach for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The investigation of vehicular channel measurements and modeling provides fundamental supports for the VCN system design. Then, this book investigates VCN-vehicle combination from PHY and MAC layers, respectively. As for the PHY layer, many advanced techniques that can be effectively applied in VCN to counter the PHY challenges are introduced, including novel ICI cancellation methods, index modulated OFDM, differential spatial modulation, and energy harvesting relaying. As for the MAC layer, distributed and centralized MAC designs are analyzed and compared in terms of feasibility and availability. Specifically, distributed congestion control, D2D-enabled vehicular communications, and centralized data dissemination scheduling are elaborated, which can significantly improve the network performance in vehicular networks. Finally, considering VCN-vehicle integration, this book introduces several hot-topic applications in vehicular networks, including electric vehicles, distributed data storage, unmanned aerial vehicles, and security and privacy, which indicates the significance and development value of VCN-vehicle integration in future vehicular networks and our daily life. The primary audience for this book includes professionals and researchers working in the field of vehicular communications, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and Internet of vehicles (IoV). Advanced level students studying electrical engineering will also find this book useful as a secondary textbook for related courses.
5G/5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi 6/7, and Bluetooth 5/6: A Primer on Smartphone Wireless Technologies
by Douglas H MoraisThis second edition of this book provides, at a high level and in a tractable fashion, a description of how wireless communications are achieved in the latest smartphones. The author shows how smartphones communicate via three separate systems, namely 5G/5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi 6/7, and Bluetooth 5/6. The book explores how 5G/5G-Advanced allows mobile voice and high-speed data communication, how Wi-Fi 6/7 allows smartphone attachment to the Internet independent of 5G/5G-Advanced, and how Bluetooth 5/6 allows smartphone attachment to speakers, in-car entertainment systems, smart watches, etc. This text explains the key basic technologies employed and addresses how each system operates. In addition, a cursory overview is provided of smartphone GPS navigation and iPhone satellite messaging. This book is of interest to anyone with a rudimentary scientific understanding who desires to know more at an intuitive level, rather than at a rigorous one, how smartphones achieve wireless communications.
5GtoB From Theory to Practice
by Mingsong Chen Liang Song Zhibing XuThis book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the latest technology and industry application cases of 5GtoB. It focuses on the application and solutions of 5G in steel, ports, coal, manufacturing, electricity, police, railway, education and medical industries. With rich cases, novel content, simple language and strong practicality, it can be used as teaching materials for colleges and universities, as well as reference books for R&D and practitioners involved in 5G network applications in the fields of network communications, computer science, software engineering and electrical engineering.
5th EAI International Conference on Big Data Innovation for Sustainable Cognitive Computing: BDCC 2022 (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Anandakumar Haldorai Arulmurugan Ramu Sudha MohanramThis book features the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Big Data Innovation for Sustainable Cognitive Computing (BDCC 2022). The papers feature detail on cognitive computing and its self-learning systems that use data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing (NLP) to mirror the way the human brain works. This international conference focuses on technologies from knowledge representation techniques and natural language processing algorithms to dynamic learning approaches. Topics covered include Data Science for Cognitive Analysis, Real-Time Ubiquitous Data Science, Platform for Privacy Preserving Data Science, and Internet-Based Cognitive Platform.
5th International Conference on Wireless, Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication: WIDECOM 2022 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #174)
by Isaac Woungang Sanjay Kumar DhurandherThis book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless Intelligent and Distributed Environment for Communication (WIDECOM 2022), which took place at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada, October 12-14, 2022. The book addresses issues related to new dependability paradigms, design, and performance of dependable network computing and mobile systems, as well as issues related to the security of these systems. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers, students, scientists and engineers working in academia and industry to share their experiences, new ideas and research results in the above-mentioned areas.
6 JavaScript Projects
by Darren Jones Michael Wanyoike Michaela Lehr Adam JanesThere's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how difficult it is to learn modern JavaScript development these days. We're aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript. This book presents six complete JavaScript projects; each taking advantage of modern JavaScript and its ecosystem. You'll learn to build several different apps, and along the way you'll pick up a ton of useful advice, tips, and techniques. It contains: Build a Full-Sphere 3D Image Gallery with React VR by Michaela LehrBuild a WebRTC Video Chat Application with SimpleWebRTC by Michael WanyoikeBuild a JavaScript Single Page App Without a Framework by Michael WanyoikeBuild a To-do List with Hyperapp, the 1KB JS Micro-framework by Darren JonesUse Parcel to Bundle a Hyperapp App & Deploy to GitHub Pages by Darren JonesInteractive Data Visualization with Modern JavaScript and D3 by Adam Janes This book is for all front-end developers who wish to improve their JavaScript skills. You'll need to be familiar with HTML and CSS and have a reasonable level of understanding of JavaScript in order to follow the discussion.
6 Microsoft® Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint® Server 2007
by Microsoft CorporationGet the practical guide to implementing the Microsoft Office system as an application-development platform. This book highlights the breadth of approaches developers can take for extending line-of-business information to information workers in the familiar, usable format of the Microsoft Office interface. These approaches, Microsoft Office Business Application (OBA) patterns, are based on real-world implementations in many cases. In other cases, they are built on Microsoft Office features that have a generalized solution rooted in input from customers and partners. This reference delivers the seven key Microsoft Office Business Application patterns and provides professional developers with extensible examples and the architectural guidance needed for developing custom enterprise applications and extending business information to users.
60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack: Using the CloudStack Ecosystem
by Sébastien GoasguenPlanning to deploy and maintain a public, private, or hybrid cloud service? This cookbook’s handy how-to recipes help you quickly learn and install Apache CloudStack, along with several API clients, API wrappers, data architectures, and configuration management technologies that work as part of CloudStack’s ecosystem.You’ll learn how to use Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Fluentd, Libcloud, and several other open source tools that let you build and operate CloudStack better and faster. If you’re an experienced programmer, system administrator, or DevOps practitioner familiar with bash, Git, package management, and some Python, you’re ready to go.Learn basic CloudStack installation from source, including features such as DevCloud, the CloudStack sandboxGet a step-by-step guide for installing CloudStack from packages on Ubuntu 14.04 using KVMWrite your own applications on top of the CloudStack API, using CloudMonkey, Libcloud, jclouds, and CloStackExpose different APIs on CloudStack with the EC2Stack, Boto, and Eutester API wrappersDeploy applications easily, using Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Chef, and VagrantDive into cloud monitoring and storage with RiakCS, Fluentd, and Apache Whirr
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer: (And Other Discarded Electronics)
by Randy SarafanComputer hacking takes on a whole new meaning when you're going at it with a screwdriver and hammer: announcing the most wildly inventive, eco-friendly craft book on repurposing everyday objects since Generation T. Except in this case the raw material isn't a T-shirt, but the stuff we all have lying around and have no idea what to do with, or even how to get rid of properly—your old cell phone, a broken printer, irredeemable iPod, busted digital camera, mysterious thatches of cables and wires, orphaned keyboards, and of course, those dead PCs and laptops. Created by a Parsons design graduate who’s obsessed with navigating the intersection of art and technology, here are 62 ingenious projects that are irresistibly geek-chic. An iMac Terrarium—how cool is that? A laptop Digital Photo Frame. The impressively green Scanner Compost Bin. Plus a power strip Bird Feeder, Walkman Soap Dish, My First Squiggle Bot, Qwerty Hair Tie, Flat-screen Ant Farm. Each project has complete, step-by-step instructions, is rated by difficulty—in a thorough first chapter the author covers all the tools and skills needed to take apart electronics safely—and is arranged by use, from stuff for the house, to fashion, toys, arts and crafts, items for pets, and more.
64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World
by Chas Newkey-BurdenWe wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were it not for the fickleness of a banker. From celebrated prodigies and self-proclaimed geniuses to history's hidden heroes-64 GEEKS brings you the incredible stories of the world's best brains, all presented alongside clever 8-bit likenesses.
64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World
by Chas Newkey-BurdenWe wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were it not for the fickleness of a banker. From celebrated prodigies and self-proclaimed geniuses to history's hidden heroes-64 GEEKS brings you the incredible stories of the world's best brains, all presented alongside clever 8-bit likenesses.
6G Communications Networking and Signal Processing: Proceedings of the International Conference, SGCNSP 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1270)
by Terence Kin Shun Wong Vinod Kiran KappalaThis book includes peer-reviewed papers of the International Conference on 6G Communications Networking and Signal Processing-SGCNSP 2023. This book focuses on conceptual frameworks that help understand the basics of electronics, electrical, and communication. It also provides an overview of the upcoming advanced technologies supporting 6G signal processing, communication systems and networks, mobile and wireless networks, and RF and optical communication. This book is useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students and research scholars.
6G Enabled Fog Computing in IoT: Applications and Opportunities
by Steve Uhlig Mohit Kumar Sukhpal Singh Gill Jitendra Kumar SamriyaOver the past few years, the demand for data traffic has experienced explosive growth thanks to the increasing need to stay online. New applications of communications, such as wearable devices, autonomous systems, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT), continue to emerge and generate even more data traffic with vastly different performance requirements. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to stay online has become even more crucial, as most of the fields, would they be industrial, educational, economic, or service-oriented, had to go online as best as they can. As the data traffic is expected to continuously strain the capacity of future communication networks, these networks need to evolve consistently in order to keep up with the growth of data traffic. Thus, more intelligent processing, operation, and optimization will be needed for tomorrow’s communication networks. The Sixth Generation (6G) technology is latest approach for mobile systems or edge devices in terms of reduce traffic congestions, energy consumption blending with IoT devices applications. The 6G network works beyond the 5G (B5G), where we can use various platforms as an application e.g. fog computing enabled IoT networks, Intelligent techniques for SDN network, 6G enabled healthcare industry, energy aware location management. Still this technology must resolve few challenges like security, IoT enabled trust network.This book will focus on the use of AI/ML-based techniques to solve issues related to 6G enabled networks, their layers, as well as their applications. It will be a collection of original contributions regarding state-of-the-art AI/ML-based solutions for signal detection, channel modeling, resource optimization, routing protocol design, transport layer optimization, user/application behavior prediction 6G enabled software-defined networking, congestion control, communication network optimization, security, and anomaly detection. The proposed edited book emphasis on the 6G network blended with Fog-IoT networks to introduce its applications and future perspectives that helps the researcher to apply this technique in their domain and it may also helpful to resolve the challenges and future opportunities with 6G networks.
6G Enabled Healthcare Systems: Theory, Implementation and Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology)
by Bernard Fong Haesik Kim Vyasa SaiThis book introduces 6G enabled healthcare systems and helps readers understand state-of-the-art techniques and applications for future healthcare systems. Readers will be able to obtain a background knowledge about AI, wireless systems, implementation methods, and applications, enabling the upcoming migration from 5G to 6G for supporting mission-critical healthcare applications.
6G Mobile Wireless Networks (Computer Communications and Networks)
by Yulei Wu Abhishek Roy Sukhdeep Singh Tarik Taleb Harpreet S. Dhillon Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam Aloknath DeThis book is the world’s first book on 6G Mobile Wireless Networks that aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of key drivers, use cases, research requirements, challenges and open issues that are expected to drive 6G research. In this book, we have invited world-renowned experts from industry and academia to share their thoughts on different aspects of 6G research. Specifically, this book covers the following topics: 6G Use Cases, Requirements, Metrics and Enabling Technologies, PHY Technologies for 6G Wireless, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless Networks, Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Spectrum for 6G Wireless, Challenges in Transport Layer for Tbit/s Communications, High-capacity Backhaul Connectivity for 6G Wireless, Cloud Native Approach for 6G Wireless Networks, Machine Type Communications in 6G, Edge Intelligence and Pervasive AI in 6G, Blockchain: Foundations and Role in 6G, Role of Open-source Platforms in 6G, and Quantum Computing and 6G Wireless. The overarching aim of this book is to explore the evolution from current 5G networks towards the future 6G networks from a service, air interface and network perspective, thereby laying out a vision for 6G networks. This book not only discusses the potential 6G use cases, requirements, metrics and enabling technologies, but also discusses the emerging technologies and topics such as 6G PHY technologies, reconfigurable intelligent surface, millimeter-wave and THz communications, visible light communications, transport layer for Tbit/s communications, high-capacity backhaul connectivity, cloud native approach, machine-type communications, edge intelligence and pervasive AI, network security and blockchain, and the role of open-source platform in 6G. This book provides a systematic treatment of the state-of-the-art in these emerging topics and their role in supporting a wide variety of verticals in the future. As such, it provides a comprehensive overview of the expected applications of 6G with a detailed discussion of their requirements and possible enabling technologies. This book also outlines the possible challenges and research directions to facilitate the future research and development of 6G mobile wireless networks.