Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

Experience a guided tour of the key information-theoretic principles that underpin the design of next-generation cellular systems with this invaluable reference. Written by experts in the field, the text encompasses principled theoretical guidelines for the design and performance analysis of network architectures, coding and modulation schemes, and communication protocols. Presenting an extensive overview of the most important ideas and topics necessary for the development of future wireless systems, as well as providing a detailed introduction to network information theory, this is the perfect tool for researchers and graduate students in the fields of information theory and wireless communications, as well as for practitioners in the telecommunications industry.

1. Introduction Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone and Ivana Marić; 2. Information theory for cellular wireless networks Gerhard Kramer and Young-Han Kim; Part I. Architecture: 3. Device-to-device communication Ratheesh K. Mungara, Geordie George and Angel Lozano; 4. Multihop wireless backhaul for 5G Song-Nam Hong and Ivana Marić; 5. Edge caching Navid Naderi Alizadeh, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali and Salman Avestimehr; 6. Cloud and fog radio access networks Osvaldo Simeone, Ravi Tandon, Seok-Hwan Park and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz); 7. Communication with energy harvesting and remotely powered radios Ayfer Ozgur and Dor Shaviv; Part II. Coding and Modulation: 8. Polarization and polar coding Erdal Arikan; 9. Massive MIMO and beyond Thomas L. Marzetta, Erik G. Larsson and Thorkild B. Hansen; 10. Short-packet transmission Giuseppe Durisi, Gianluigi Liva and Yury Polyanskiy; 11. Information theoretic perspectives on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) Peng Xu, Zhiguo Ding and H. Vincent Poor; 12. Compute-forward strategies for next-generation wireless systems Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar and Sung Hoon Lim; 13. Waveform design Paolo Banelli, Giulio Colavolpe, Luca Rugini and Alessandro Ugolini; Part III. Protocols: 14. Information-theoretic aspects of 5G protocols Cedomir Stefanović, Kasper F. Trillingsgaard and Petar Popovski; 15. Interference management in wireless networks: an information theoretic perspective Ravi Tandon and Aydin Sezgin; 16. Cooperative cellular communications Benjamin M. Zaidel, Michèle Wigger and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz); 17. Service delivery in 5G Jaime Llorca, Antonia Tulino and Giuseppe Caire; 18. A broadcast approach to fading channels under secrecy constraints Shaofeng Zou, Yingbin Liang, Lifeng Lai, H. Vincent Poor and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz); 19. Cognitive cooperation and state management: an information theoretic perspective Anelia Baruch, Yingbin Liang, Haim Permuter and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz).

Ivana Marić is a Research Scientist with the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an URSI Fellow, a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award, the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering, and the 2017 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.
Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, and a Fellow of the IEEE and of the IET.