Radio Relay Networks and Microwave Techniques: Advances and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

As mobile network capacity demands have increased rapidly, a large number of the operator's investments are directed towards the deployment of ultra-wide-band communications. Millimeter wave (mmW) facilitates the transmission of many subcarriers, offering the following advantages: huge bandwidth, narrow beam, high-quality transmission, etc. The rapid emergence of 5G networks has set a number of new planning problems which should be carefully analyzed to optimize the installation of new technologies and integrate them in the existing mobile network. Energy and cost efficiency are becoming increasingly important criteria in the design of 5G radio relay lines, especially for areas close to water surfaces, where there is pronounced fading, characteristic of radio relay paths that pass on the surface of the water.

Dr. Grigor Mihaylov
Dr. Ivaylo Stoyanov
Guest Editors

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