Cellular IoT: From 5G to 5G advanced gives an accessible and insightful explanation of 5G IoT technologies and standards. After an introduction to 5G and 5G Advanced, the book in detail goes through the 5G features that are vital for the support of IoT. It describes how the 5G New Radio (NR) access technology has been designed to support industrial IoT, and how it has been adapted to provide cost and energy efficient connectivity, as well as providing high data rates at a low latency to support immerse experience or time-critical communications. The book also discusses the future of massive IoT and how 3GPP is about to extend its support for near zero-energy and low complexity devices and use cases. These forward-looking features will help evolve 5G and 5G Advanced toward realizing 6G visions such as a connected, sustainable, digitalized, and programmable physical world.
- Explains how 5G NR is designed to support IoT
- Shows the reasoning behind the different design choices
- Presents the different 5G NR features that address the different IoT use cases
Olof Liberg is a Master Researcher at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. After studies in Sweden, USA, Germany, and Switzerland, he received a bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics and a master’s degree in Engineering Physics, both from Uppsala University. He joined Ericsson in 2008 and has in recent years specialized in the design and standardization of cellular systems for machine-type communications and Internet of Things. He has, over the years, actively contributed to the work in several standardization bodies such as 3GPP, ETSI and the Multefire Alliance. He was the chairman of 3GPP TSG GERAN and its Working Group 1, during the 3GPP study on new radio access technologies for Internet of Things leading up to the specification of EC GSM IoT and NB IoT.
Johan Bergman is a Master Researcher at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. He received his master’s degree in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He joined Ericsson in 1997, initially working with baseband receiver algorithm design for 3G cellular systems. Since 2005, he has been working with 3G/4G physical layer standardization in 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group 1. As Rapporteur of the 3GPP TSG RAN Work Items on LTE for machine-type communications (MTC) in Releases 13, 14, 15, and 16, he has led the technical work to standardize the new LTE-based features dedicated for Internet of Things. He was a corecipient of Ericsson’s Inventor of the Year award for 2017.
Y.-P. Eric Wang is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson Research. He holds a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2001 and 2002, he was a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and served as the society’s Secretary. Dr. Wang was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from 2003 to 2007. He is a technical leader in Ericsson Research in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. Dr. Wang was a corecipient of Ericsson’s Inventors of the Year award in 2006. He has contributed to more than 150 US patents and more than 50 IEEE articles.
Andreas Höglund has a Master of Science in engineering physics (2002) and a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Uppsala University (2007). He is a master researcher at Ericsson Research and has since he joined in 2008 worked on HSPA, LTE, system simulations, UE research projects, and the 3GPP standardization of LTE MTC (Cat-M1) and NB-IoT. He is currently working with 3GPP Rel-17 RedCap and Small Data Transmission (SDT), Rel-18 Wake-up receiver, eRedCap, MT-SDT, as well as IoT research for 6G. He has contributed to more than 25 academic papers and over 70 US patents.
Mohammad Mozaffari is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 2018. His research interests span diverse areas, including 5G and 6G wireless networks, UAV and drone communications, IoT, and machine learning. He has been actively contributing to 3GPP standardization for NB-IoT, LTE-MTC, RedCap, and wake-up radio. He is the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award and Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He is the author of a book on UAV Communications and over 40 IEEE journal and conference papers. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
