5G Advanced: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, Third Edition follows the authors' highly celebrated books on 3G and 4G by providing a new level of insight into 5G NR. After an initial discussion of the background to 5G, including requirements, spectrum aspects and the standardization timeline, all technology features of the first phase of NR are described in detail. Included is a detailed description of the NR physical-layer structure and higher-layer protocols, RF and spectrum aspects and co-existence and interworking with LTE.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Acronyms
1. What Is 5G?
2. 5G Standardization
3. Spectrum for 5G
4. LTE—An Overview
5. NR Overview
6. Radio-Interface Architecture
7. Overall Transmission Structure
8. Channel Sounding
9. Transport-Channel Processing
10. Physical-Layer Control Signaling
11. Multi-Antenna Transmission
12. Beam Management
13. Retransmission Protocols
14. Scheduling
15. Uplink Power and Timing Control
16. Cell search and system information
17. Random access
18. LTE/NR Interworking and Coexistence
19. Interference handling in TDD networks
20. NR in unlicensed spectrum
21. Industrial IoT and URLLC enhancements
22. RedCap and small data transmission
23. Multicast-Broadcast Services
24. Integrated Access Backhaul
25. Non-terrestrial NR access
26. Sidelink communication
27. Positioning
28. RF Characteristics
29. RF Technologies at mm-Wave Frequencies
30. 5G—Further Evolution
References

Subject Areas: Network management [UTF], Computer networking & communications [UT], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK]