Enabling 6G Mobile Networks

This book tackles the 6G odyssey, providing a concerted technology roadmap towards the 6G vision focused on the interoperability between the wireless and optical domain, including the benefits that are introduced through virtualization and software defined radio. The authors aim to be at the forefront of beyond 5G technologies by reflecting the integrated works of several major European collaborative projects (H2020-ETN-SECRET, 5GSTEPFWD, and SPOTLIGHT). The book is structured so as to provide insights towards the 6G horizon, reporting on the most recent developments on the international 6G research effort.

The authors address a variety of telecom stakeholders, which includes practicing engineers on the field developing commercial solutions for 5G and beyond products; postgraduate researchers that require a basis on which to build their research by highlighting the current challenges on radio, optical and cloud-based networking for ultra-dense networks, including novel approaches; and project managers that could use the principles and applications for shaping new research proposals on this highly dynamic field.

Jonathan Rodriguez received his Masters degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. from the University of Surrey (UK), in 1998 and 2004 respectively. In 2005, he became a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações – Portugal, and Senior Researcher in 2008 where he established the Mobile Systems Research group. He has served as project coordinator for major international research initiatives (Eureka LOOP, FP7-ICT-C2POWER, H2020-ITN-SECRET, NATO PHYSEC), whilst serving as technical manager for FP7-ICT-COGEU and FP7-SEC-SALUS. His project portfolio includes participation as Principle Investigator in over 45 international competitive research grants. In 2017, he became a full professor at the University of South Wales (UK). He has trained over 15 doctoral students, and 24 post-doctoral researchers. His professional affiliations include: Senior Member of the IEEE (2013), Chartered Engineer (CEng) (2013), Fellow of the IET (2015), and Senior Fellow of the HEA (2020). He has authored over 600 publications, that include 170 journals and 10 book editorials. His research interests include: B5G mobile networking architectures, Radio Resource Management, and Security. 

Christos Verikoukis received the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 2000, in the area of broadband indoor wireless communications. He is currently a Research Director with Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC/CERCA), Spain, and an Adjunct Professor with UB. He has authored 138 journal papers and more than 200 conference papers. He has coauthored more than three books, 14 chapters, and four patents. He is serving as the project coordinator of the H2020 MonB5G, MARSAL, 5GMediaBUB and SEMANTIC, he and has served as the Principal Investigator of national projects.  He has participated in more than 35 competitive projects. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. students and five postdoctoral researchers. Dr. Verikoukis is serving as the IEEE ComSoc EMEA Director, IEEE ComSoc Board of Governons member and a Member-at-Large of the IEEE ComSoc GITC. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 and 2020 IEEE International Communications Conference, the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 and 2015, and the 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC), and the EURASIP 2013 Best Paper Award of the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 

John S. Vardakas has received the Dipl.-Eng. in Electrical Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2004 and his Ph.D. from the Electrical Computer Engineering Dept., University of Patras, Greece in 2012. He is a Senior Researcher at Iquadrat Informatica, Barcelona, Spain, since 2012. He has authored more than 38 journal articles and 65 conference articles, while he has participated in more than 15 competitive research programs.  His research interests include teletraffic engineering, performance evaluation of wireless and optical networks, resource management of communication networks, protocols’ design for Radio-over-Fiber / Fiber-Wireless networks, MAC algorithms’ development for WLANs and WSNs, and algorithms’ design for Demand Response in Smart Grid environments. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE). 

Nikos Passas received his Diploma (honors) from the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a member of the teaching staff in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens, and a group leader of the Green, Adaptive and Intelligent Networking (GAIN) research group inside the department. Dr. Passas has served as a guest editor and technical program committee member in prestigious magazines and conferences, such as IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE Globecom, etc. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and has also published 1 book and 11 book chapters. His research interests are in the area of mobile network architectures and protocols.