1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Dedication Page

      5  Preface

      6  About the Authors

      7  Acknowledgments

      8  1 Background and Functional Requirements for High‐Density Communications 1.1 BACKGROUND 1.2 REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH‐DENSITY COMMUNICATIONS 1.3 PANDEMIC‐DRIVEN SOCIAL DISTANCING 1.4 THE CONCEPT OF A WIRELESS SuperNetwork REFERENCES

      9  2 Traditional WLAN Technologies 2.1 OVERVIEW 2.2 WLAN STANDARDS 2.3 WLAN BASIC CONCEPTS 2.4 HARDWARE ELEMENTS 2.5 KEY IEEE 802.11AC MECHANISMS 2.6 BRIEF PREVIEW OF IEEE 802.11AX REFERENCES

      10  3 Traditional DAS Technologies 3.1 OVERVIEW 3.2 FREQUENCY BANDS OF CELLULAR OPERATION 3.3 DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS (DASs) REFERENCES

      11  4 Traditional Sensor Networks/IoT Services 4.1 OVERVIEW AND ENVIRONMENT 4.2 ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS 4.3 WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE IoT 4.4 EXAMPLES OF SEVEN‐LAYER IoT PROTOCOL STACKS 4.5 GATEWAY‐BASED IoT OPERATION 4.6 EDGE COMPUTING IN THE IoT ECOSYSTEM 4.7 SESSION ESTABLISHMENT EXAMPLE 4.8 IoT SECURITY REFERENCES

      12  5 Evolved Campus Connectivity 5.1 ADVANCED SOLUTIONS 5.2 VOICE OVER Wi‐Fi (VoWi‐Fi) 5.3 5G TECHNOLOGIES 5.4 IoT 5.5 5G DAS SOLUTIONS 5.6 INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS REFERENCES

      13  6 De‐densification of Spaces and Work Environments 6.1 OVERVIEW 6.2 BASIC APPROACHES 6.3 RTLS METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 6.4 STANDARDS 6.5 APPLICATIONS REFERENCES

      14  7 UWB‐Based De‐densification of Spaces and Work Environments 7.1 REVIEW OF UWB TECHNOLOGY 7.2 CARRIAGE OF INFORMATION IN UWB 7.3 UWB STANDARDS 7.4 IoT APPLICATIONS FOR UWB 7.5 UWB APPLICATIONS FOR SMART CITIES AND FOR REAL‐TIME LOCATING SYSTEMS 7.6 OSD/ODCMA APPLICATIONS REFERENCES

      15  8 RTLSs and Distance Tracking Using Wi‐Fi, Bluetooth, and Cellular Technologies 8.1 OVERVIEW 8.2 RF FINGERPRINTING METHODS 8.3 Wi‐Fi RTLS APPROACHES 8.4 BLE 8.5 CELLULAR APPROACHES 8.6 SUMMARY REFERENCES

      16  9 Case Study of an Implementation and Rollout of a High‐Density High‐Impact Network 9.1 THURGOOD MARSHALL BWI AIRPORT DESIGN REQUIREMENTS 9.2 OVERVIEW OF THE FINAL DESIGN