Evolution of Air Interface Towards 5G: Radio Access Technology and Performance Analysis

Over the past few decades, wireless access networks have evolved extensively to support the tremendous growth of consumer traffic. This superlative growth of data consumption has come about due to several reasons, such as evolution of the consumer devices, the types of telephone and smartphone being used, convergence of services, digitisation of economic transactions, tele-education, telemedicine, m-commerce, virtual reality office, social media, e-governance, e-security, to name but a few.Not only has the society transformed to a digital world, but also the expectations from the services provided have increased many folds. The last mile/meters of delivery of all e-services is now required to be wireless. It has always been known that wireless links are the bottleneck to providing high data rates and high quality of service. Several wireless signalling and performance analysis techniques to overcome the hurdles of wireless channels have been developed over the last decade, and these are fuelling the evolution of 4G towards 5G. Evolution of Air Interface Towards 5G attempts to bring out some of the important developments that are contributing towards such growth.

Suvra Sekhar Das, completed his Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He has worked as Senior Scientist with the Innovation Laboratory of Tata Consultancy Services. His research interests include cross-layer optimization of mobile broadband cellular networks, 5G, Broadband Mobile Communications, 5G Waveform design GFDM FBMC UFMC, heteogeneous networks Femto Cells Device to Device communication, Multi objective optimization for radio access networks, Green radio network design Packet Scheduling and radio resource allocation with link adaptation, MIMO communications. He has delivered several tutorials and seminars on next generation wireless communications. He has guided several PhD students, published several research papers in international journals and conferences. He has co-authored two books titled Adaptive PHY-MAC Design for Broadband Wireless Systems and Single- and Multi-Carrier MIMO Transmission for Broadband Wireless Systems. He has developed teaching resource fading channel and mobile communications freely available as interactive web material for learners of mobile communications. He has taught several subjects such as Modern digital communication techniques, Broadband access systems, mobile communications and fading, teletraffic engineering, introduction to wireless communication and MIMO communications. He is currently serving as associate professor at the G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications in the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Ramjee Prasad is a Professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation (FT4BI) in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India, established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He has been honored by the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education. He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communi- cations Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of "Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks", Telenor's Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: "Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network", and so on. He has been Project Coordinator of several EC projects namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, eWALL and so on. He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 100 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves. Under his leadership, magnitudes of close collaborations are being established among premier universities across the globe. The collaborations are regulated by guidelines of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the collaborating universities.