Natalia Yarkina: Advancing the understanding of critical technologies driving 5G network evolution

The 5G specifications serve as a foundation for developing mobile networks into an omnipresent and versatile communication infrastructure. Beyond quantitative improvements in speed, latency, and coverage, the standards introduce a major shift toward unprecedented flexibility in supported services, business models, network design and control. In her dissertation, Lic. Natalia Yarkina investigated key enabling technologies — network slicing, integrated access and backhaul (IAB), and broadcast/multicast communications — that make this shift possible.