Transforming the way we live, work, and engage with our environment, 5G
and beyond technologies will provide much higher bandwidth and
connectivity to billions of devices. This brings enormous opportunities
but of course the widespread deployment of these technologies faces
challenges, including the need for reliable connectivity, a diverse
range of bandwidths, dynamic spectrum sharing, channel modelling and
wave propagation for ultra-dense wireless networks, as well as price
pressures. The choice of an antenna system will also be a critical
component of all node end devices and will present several design
challenges such as size, purpose, shape and placement. In this edited
book, the authors bring new approaches for exploiting challenging
propagation channels and the development of efficient, cost-effective,
scalable, and reliable antenna systems and solutions, as well as future
perspectives.
The book is aimed at a wide audience of industry and academic
researchers, scientists and engineers as well as advanced students in
the field of antennas, ICTs, signal processing and electromagnetics. It
will also be useful to network and system designers, developers and
manufacturers. Stakeholders, government regulators, policy makers and
standards bodies can use the information provided here to better
understand the effects of the technology on the market and future
developments for 5G and beyond systems and networks.
