An Introduction to 5G

Acknowledgements

My first acknowledgement is to the team at Wiley, for taking on the publication of this book and for guiding me through the writing and production process. I am particularly grateful for the support received from my Commissioning Editor, Sandra Grayson; from my Project Editor, Steve Fassioms; from my Production Editor, Juliet Booker; and from the whole of the production team. I would also like to extend my appreciation to the directors and staff of Wray Castle Limited. My first exposure to 5G was as part of a contract to write training material on their behalf, and I am grateful for the opportunities that the work provided to extend my knowledge and understanding of the subject.

Particular thanks are due to Paul Mason, Jeff Cartwright and Tony Wakefield, for many valuable discussions about telecommunications in general and 5G in particular; to Ignacio Rodriguez Larrad, for providing the data on penetration losses underlying Figure 4.5; and to David Herbert, for his guidance about the signalling protocols that are used by the internet. I would also like to offer a big thank you to the delegates in my training classes, whose probing questions have so often proved the ideal trigger for learning new aspects of the technology. Nevertheless, the responsibility for any errors and omissions in the text, and for any lack of clarity in the explanations, is entirely my own.

Several diagrams in this book have been reproduced from the technical specifications for 5G, with ...