Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible if it wasn't for the support of many.

The great (and very patient) editorial staff of Wiley & Sons, including Mark Hammond, Sarah Tilley, Sophia Travis, Susan Barclay, Mariam Cheok, and Keerthana Panneer of Laserwords Private Limited. Thank you for facilitating this book and making it possible.

The Broadly Project students at the Telecommunications Research Lab at the School of Computing, Queen's University, including (by alphabetical last name) Hatem Abou-Zeid, Hassan Ahmed, Abdallah Almaaitah, Mervat Fahmy, Pandeli Kolomitro, Mahmoud Ouda, Samad Razaghzadah, Mohamed Salah, and Nassif Shafi. Thank you for helping out at various parts of this book's development.

Ala Abu Alkheir did an excellent job in providing a much valued review of several chapters towards final stages of writing this book.

Sam Aleyadeh put in a lot of effort throughout into preparing the book's artwork, in addition to overseeing the required permissions from both IEEE and 3GPP.

Finally, we acknowledge the constant support of our families—one that was provided in many uncountable ways. We can never thank you enough.