LTE-Advanced and Next Generation Wireless Networks: Channel Modelling and Propagation

Acknowledgements

As editors of this book, we would first like to express our sincere gratitude to our esteemed and knowledgeable co-authors, without whom this book would not have been accomplished. It is their time and dedication spent on this project that has facilitated the timeliness and high quality of this book. We extend a immensely grateful thank you to all our contributors, from many countries (including Austria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, USA and UK) who accepted to share their expertise and contributed to make this book happen—thank you!

We would like to thank Wiley staff and more in particular Anna Smart and Susan Barclay for their help and encouragement during the publication process of this book.

Guillaume de la Roche is very grateful to his family and friends for their support during the time devoted to compiling this book. He also wishes to say thank you to his previous colleagues and more in particular Prof. Jean Marie Gorce for introducing him to the world of radio propagation and Prof Jie Zhang for letting him continue to do research in this area.

Andrés Alayón Glazunov wishes to thank his mother Louise for her encouragement to always pursue his dreams, his children Amanda and Gabriel for being his most precious treasures and his wife Alina for her wonderful love and support. Andrés also wishes to thank his current and former colleagues at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Lund University, ...