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Telco Cloud A Complete Guide – 2023 Edition

Telco Cloud / By

“Telco Cloud: A Complete Guide – 2023 Edition” by Gerardus Blokdyk is a practical resource for professionals in the field of telecommunications cloud services. It diverges from traditional textbooks, focusing instead on asking insightful questions to uncover challenges in Telco Cloud implementations. The guide includes a self-assessment component, offering tools and questions across seven core levels of Telco Cloud maturity. This approach helps diagnose and improve Telco Cloud projects and integrates recent advancements in the field. The book is designed for a range of professionals, from entrepreneurs to C-level executives, aiming to shape the future of Telco Cloud investments through critical thinking and strategic questioning.

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Network Slicing for 5G and Beyond Networks

Network Slicing / By

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of network slicing and its importance to bringing novel 5G applications into fruition. The authors discuss the current trends, novel enabling technologies, and current challenges imposed on the cellular networks. Resource management aspects of network slicing are also discussed by summarizing and comparing traditional game theoretic and optimization based solutions. Finally, the book presents some use cases of network slicing and applications for vertical industries.

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The Business of Metaverse: How Organizations Can Optimize the Opportunities of Web3

Metaverse / By

The Business of Metaverse outlines the building blocks for success in the metaverse and how organizations can effectively position themselves to transition and benefit from it. It presents a unique framework showing how different components of the metaverse and the physical worlds can come together, providing a basis for strategic positioning for different sectors and industries and equipping readers with valuable insights into how they can anticipate and navigate key opportunities and challenges.

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6G Visions for a Sustainable and People-centric Future

6G / By

6G is currently under definition, being often addressed from a plain telecommunications perspective as an evolutionary paradigm that represents an extension of 5G. Having as a horizon 2030, 6G initiatives are being deployed across the globe to further ignite the development of 6G services. At its philosophical core, 6G embodies the “human in the loop” principle. The research effort being developed towards 6G requires an interdisciplinary approach that ignites discussion across different key technological sectors, ranging from communications up to services and business cases.

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Intelligent Surfaces Empowered 6G Wireless Network

6G / By

Intelligent Surfaces Empowered 6G Wireless Network provides a thorough overview of intelligent surface technologies and their applications in wireless networks and 6G. It includes an introduction to the fundamentals of intelligent surfaces, before moving to more advanced content for engineers who understand them and look to apply them in the 6G realm. Its detailed discussion of the challenges and opportunities posed by intelligent surfaces empowered wireless networks makes it the first work of its kind.

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The Road towards 6G: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications

6G / By

The proposed book will provide a comprehensive picture of the journey from 5G networks towards 6G. Different aspects, ranging from theoretical foundations to existing platforms and technologies will be presented and analysed, by critically highlighting the real opportunities and the challenges. The first chapters are to describe the general “transitioning” aspects from 5G to 6G. After that, an overview on the different technologies is provided, to present at the end the security aspects, the new applications and an analysis of the electromagnetic exposure, above all in terms of comparative in respect of 5G.

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Edge Computing Acceleration: From 5G to 6G and Beyond

5G, 6G, Edge/MEC / By

In Edge Computing Acceleration from 5G to 6G and Beyond, distinguished researchers Dr. Patrick Hung, Hongwei Kan, and Greg Knopf deliver a comprehensive overview of personal computer architecture and software design usage in the upcoming 5G decade. The authors begin by introducing key components and exploring different hardware acceleration architectures. They move on to discuss 5G data security and data integrity and offer a survey of network virtualization technologies, including accelerated virtualization technologies.

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Integration of MTC and Satellites for IoT toward 6G Era

6G, IoT, Satellite & NTN / By

This book is the first one focusing on the integration of machine-type communications (MTC) and satellite connectivity toward the 6th generation of mobile systems (i.e., the “6G”). Integrating these two technologies, especially within the emerging direct-to-satellite (DtS) concept employing direct connectivity between an MTC terminal and a satellite-based gateway, will be critical in enabling the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications in remote areas with limited connectivity infrastructure available.

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Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

Security / By

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it, using the same tactics attackers employ to identify and exploit weaknesses. With the third edition of this practical book, you’ll learn how to perform network-based penetration testing in a structured manner. Security expert Chris McNab demonstrates common vulnerabilities, and the steps you can take to identify them in your environment.

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Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World

Security / By

Widely regarded as the most comprehensive yet comprehensible guide to network security and cryptography, the previous editions of Network Security received critical acclaim for lucid and witty explanations of the inner workings of cryptography and network security protocols. In this edition, the authors have significantly updated and revised the previous content, and added new topics that have become important.

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The 2023 Report on 5G Fixed Wireless Access: World Market Segmentation by City

5G, FWA / By

This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a “borderless world”, cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2,000 cities in over 200 countries.

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Broadband Fixed Wireless Access: A System Perspective (Signals and Communication Technology)

FWA / By

This introductory volume provides a systematic overview of WiMAX technology, demystifing the technology and providing technical advice on various system trade-offs. Much of the material is based on the practical experiences of the authors in building new systems. Coverage includes the IEEE 802.16 standard, a tutorial on implementation and tips on controlling cost of WiMAX network ownership. This is a must read book for professionals involved in broadband fixed wireless access.

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Key 5G Physical Layer Technologies: Enabling Mobile and Fixed Wireless Access

5G, FWA / By

This updated book, reconfigured as a textbook, covers the key technologies associated with the physical transmission of data on 5G mobile systems. Following an updated overview of these technologies, the author provides a high-level description of 3GPP’s mobile communications standard (5G NR) and shows how the key technologies presented earlier facilitate the transmission of very high-speed user data and control data and can provide very low latency for use cases where this is important. In the final chapter, an overview and the physical layer aspects of 5G NR enabled Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks is presented.

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Open RAN Explained: The New Era of Radio Networks

Open RAN / By

Open RAN Explained details the new architectures, functionalities, and interfaces of Open RAN models and explains the standards, principles, and practical aspects the operators need to know to be prepared for the new era. The work describes the challenges and opportunities of modularization and presents scenarios and recommendations for optimal network deployment considering techno-economic aspects.

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Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design

Open RAN / By

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Systems Architecture and Design gives a jump-start to engineers developing O-RAN hardware and software systems, providing a top-down approach to O-RAN systems design. It gives an introduction into why wireless systems look the way they do today before introducing relevant O-RAN and 3GPP standards.

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5G/5G-Advanced: The New Generation Wireless Access Technology

5G / By

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.

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Mastering 5G Network Design, Implementation, and Operations: A comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, deploying, and managing 5G networks

5G, Network Slicing, Satellite & NTN / By

Learn 5G network design and implement advanced apps using standalone, non-standalone, and private 5G networks with expert guidance from industry leaders

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Open RAN: The Definitive Guide 1st Edition

Uncategorized / By

In Open RAN: The Definitive Guide, a team of distinguished industry leaders deliver an authoritative guide to all four principles of the Open RAN vision: openness, virtualization, intelligence, and interoperability. Written by the industry experts currently defining the specifications, building the systems, and testing and deploying the networks, the book covers O-RAN architecture, the fronthaul interface, security, cloudification, virtualization, intelligence, certification, badging, and standardization.

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Private 5G: A Systems Approach

5G, Private Networks / By

This book describes how 5G leverages horizontally scalable microservices, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and cloud operational practices such as DevOps. It provides a detailed introduction to mobile networking that is understandable to a general computing systems audience. Emphasizes underlying concepts, key principles and design choices, going beyond the acronym soup of standards. Includes sample code used in configuration and operations of a real private 5G network deployed across a dozen enterprises.

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