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The book provides a thorough discussion on emerging topics related to 6G wireless communication systems such as programmable wireless environment (PWE); distributed and pervasive AI for wireless communications as well as terahertz (THz) communications.
List of contents
1. Introduction to 6G Wireless: The Communcation Paradigm Beyond 2030. 2. IRS-Empowered Wireless Communications: State-of-the-Art, Key Techniques, and Open Issues. 3. Role of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in the emerging 6G Technologies. 4. Channel Modelling for 6G Programmable Wireless Environment. 5. Wireless Localization with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. 6. The Emergence of Aerial Computing: Applications and Challenges. 7. THz empowered UAV communications. 8. Performance Characterization of RSMA in THz Networks. 9. A Comprehensive Overview of Security and Privacy in the 6G Era. 10. Hybrid massive-MIMO and Its Practical Beamforming Implementation. 11. Blockchain Technology for 6G-Oriented IoT Systems: Principle, Applications and Challenges. 12. 6G and IOT Use Cases.
About the author
Dr. Faisal Tariq earned his B.Sc.(Hons) from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, and M.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. from The Open University, UK. He is currently serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests include radio resource management, 5G and beyond wireless networks, and molecular communications for nano-networks. He is the recipient of the best paper award at the Wireless Personal Multimedia Conference (WPMC) in 2013. He is currently serving on the editorial board of
Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
Dr. Muhammad Khandaker is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Curtin University, Australia, in 2013. He is an Associate Editor for
IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and
IEEE Access and served as an Editor for
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN), the Lead Guest Editor of the special issue on
Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks (H-CRANs) of EURASIP JWCN as well as the Managing Guest Editor of a special issue on Self-Optimizing Cognitive Radio Technologies of the Elsevier journal
Physical Communication. Dr. Imran Shafique Ansari earned his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in 2009 (with First Honors) and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Currently, since August 2018, he is an Assistant Professor with University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Prior to this, from November 2017 to July 2018, he was an Assistant Professor with Global College of Engineering and Technology (GCET) (affiliated with University of the West of England [UWE], Bristol, UK). From April 2015 to November 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PRA) with Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). From May 2009 through Aug. 2009, he was a visiting scholar with Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan, USA, and from Jun. 2010 through Aug. 2010, he was a research intern with Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ansari has authored/co-authored 100+ journal and conference publications. His current research interests include free-space optics (FSO), underwater communications (UWC), physical layer (PHY) secrecy (PLS), and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) / intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS).
