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Edited by

Muhammad Ali Imran, Oluwakayode Onireti, Shuja Ansari, and Qammer H. Abbasi

University of Glasgow, UK

This edition first published 2021

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Muhammad Ali Imranis Dean at the University of Glasgow, UESTC, Professor of Communication Systems, and Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging group in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Oluwakayode Oniretiis a lecturer at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK.

Shuja Ansariis currently a research associate at Communications Sensing and Imaging group in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK, and Wave‐1 Urban 5G use case implementation lead at Glasgow 5G Testbed funded by the Scotland 5G Center.

Qammer H. Abbasiis a senior lecturer (Associate Professor), Program Director for Dual PhD degree, and Deputy Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging group in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Qammer H. Abbasi

James Watt School of Engineering University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Hisham Abuella

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK

USA

Rigoberto Acosta‐González

Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas

Santa Clara

Cuba

Muhammad W. Akhtar

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

Islamabad

Pakistan

Gotta Alberto

Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) and Institute of Science and Technologies for Energy and Sustainable Mobility, National Research Council (CNR)

Pisa

Italy

Mudassar Ali

Department of Telecommunication Engineering, UET

Taxila

Pakistan

Imran S. Ansari

James Watt School of Engineering University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Rafay I. Ansari

Department of Computer and Information Science

Northumbria University

Newcastle upon Tyne

UK

Shuja S. Ansari

James Watt School of Engineering University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Muhammad R. Asghar

School of Computer Science The University of Auckland

Auckland

New Zealand

Muhammad Awais

School of Computing and Communications

Lancaster University

Lancaster

UK

Elizabeth Basha

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the Pacific

Stockton, CA

USA

Rabeea Basir

School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS) National University of Sciences and Technology

Islamabad

Pakistan

and

James Watt School of Engineering University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Charles F. Bunting

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK

USA

Yunfei Chen

School of Engineering

University of Warwick

Coventry

UK

Naveed A. Chughtai

Military College of Signals National University of Sciences and Technology

Rawalpindi

Pakistan

Jacob N. Dixon

IBM

Rochester, MN

USA