Foreword 2

As chairman of the 5G Infrastructure Association board, it is with great pleasure that I see this book come to fruition, and I welcome the chance to add a personal message of support. I believe this is a timely and important work, which in hindsight will be seen as one of the key results from the 5G pre‐standardization period.
Although not limited to only European research work, the major input to this book represents the key results from the 5G Public Private Partnership (5G‐PPP) research programme. Within the 5G PPP programme, the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) is the organization which represents European industry. The 5G IA is committed to the advancement of 5G in Europe and to building global consensus on 5G. To this aim, the Association brings together a global industry community of telecoms & digital actors, such as operators, manufacturers, research institutes, universities, verticals and SMEs. I believe this book may play a useful role for this 5G IA goal of advancement of 5G, by providing a definitive source for the current state of 5G research.
This book is timely because we are at a water shed in both the 5G PPP and in terms of 5G in general. Within the 5G PPP, we are at a time where most of the phase 1 projects have completed or are about to complete. This means that a lot of the fundamental 5G research has been completed and the focus of the programme ...
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