Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1: 5G RAN Architectures and Applications -- 1: Frameless Network Architecture for User-Centric 5G Radio Access Networks -- 2: Distributed Architecture of 5G Mobile Networks for Efficient Computation Management in Mobile Edge Computing -- 3: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Schemes for Next-Generation 5G Networks: A Survey -- 4: Performance Evaluation of NOMA under Wireless Downlink Cloud Radio Access Networks Environments -- 5: Cloud Computing: The Flexible Future -- 2: 5G RAN Virtualization Solutions -- 6: Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for C-RAN Systems -- 7: Software-Defined Networking in the World of C-RAN -- 8: Managing Mobility with SDN: A Practical Walkthrough -- 9: Autonomic Network Management -- 10: Distributed Data Aggregation and Compression and Compression for 5G Virtual RAN IoT Sensor Applications -- 11: 5G C-RAN Uplink Cross-Layer Optimization to Support Massive Traffic Sensor Network Services -- Index