Trung Q. Duong is a Chair Professor of Telecommunications, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and a Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Saeed R. Khosravirad is a Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. He is currently leading research projects in Bell Labs investigating various aspects of radio access for industrial IoT. Changyang She is a Research Associate with The University of Sydney, Australia. He is serving as the Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Sydney. Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Villum Investigator, previous holder of a Consolidator Grant (2015-2020) from the European Research Council (ERC) and a recipient of the Danish Elite Researcher Award (2016). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Mehdi Bennis is a Full Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. Dr Bennis is a Specialty Chief Editor for Data Science for Communications in the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Tony Q.S. Quek is a Full Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also the Director of Future Communications R&D Programme, ISTD Pillar Head, Sector Lead of SUTD AI Program, and Deputy Director of the SUTD-ZJU IDEA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

• Preface viiList of Contributors ix1 URLLC: Faster, Higher, Stronger, and Together 1Changyang She, Trung Q. Duong, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Petar Popovski, Mehdi Bennis, and Tony Q.S. Quek2 Statistical Characterization of URLLC: Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches 15Tobias Kallehauge, Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa, Anders E. Kalør, and Petar Popovski3 Characterizing and Taming the Tail in URLLC 61Chen-Feng Liu, Yung-Lin Hsu, Mehdi Bennis, and Hung-Yu Wei4 Unsupervised Deep Learning for Optimizing Wireless Systems with Instantaneous and Statistic Constraints 85Chengjian Sun, Changyang She, and Chenyang Yang5 Channel Coding and Decoding Schemes for URLLC 119Chentao Yue, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Branka Vucetic, and Yonghui li6 Sparse Vector Coding for Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications 169Byonghyo Shim7 Network Slicing for URLLC 215Peng Yang, Xing Xi, Tony Q. S. Quek, Jingxuan Chen, Xianbin Cao, and Dapeng Wu8 Beamforming Design for Multi-user Downlink OFDMA-URLLC Systems 241Walid R. Ghanem, Vahid Jamali, Yan Sun, and Robert Schober9 A Full-Duplex Relay System for URLLC with Adaptive Self-Interference Processing 259Hanjun Duan, Yufei Jiang, Xu Zhu, and Fu-Chun Zheng10 Mobility Prediction for Reducing End-to-End Delay in URLLC 291Zhanwei Hou, Changyang She, Yonghui Li, and Branka Vucetic11 Relay Robot-Aided URLLC in 5G Factory Automation with Industrial IoTs 321Dang Van Huynh, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Yuexing Peng, Antonino Masaracchia, and Trung Q. DuongIndex 343

Trung Q. Duong is a Chair Professor of Telecommunications, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and a Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Saeed R. Khosravirad is a Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. He is currently leading research projects in Bell Labs investigating various aspects of radio access for industrial IoT. Changyang She is a Research Associate with The University of Sydney, Australia. He is serving as the Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Sydney. Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Villum Investigator, previous holder of a Consolidator Grant (2015-2020) from the European Research Council (ERC) and a recipient of the Danish Elite Researcher Award (2016). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Mehdi Bennis is a Full Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. Dr Bennis is a Specialty Chief Editor for Data Science for Communications in the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Tony Q.S. Quek is a Full Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also the Director of Future Communications R&D Programme, ISTD Pillar Head, Sector Lead of SUTD AI Program, and Deputy Director of the SUTD-ZJU IDEA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

• Preface viiList of Contributors ix1 URLLC: Faster, Higher, Stronger, and Together 1Changyang She, Trung Q. Duong, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Petar Popovski, Mehdi Bennis, and Tony Q.S. Quek2 Statistical Characterization of URLLC: Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches 15Tobias Kallehauge, Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa, Anders E. Kalør, and Petar Popovski3 Characterizing and Taming the Tail in URLLC 61Chen-Feng Liu, Yung-Lin Hsu, Mehdi Bennis, and Hung-Yu Wei4 Unsupervised Deep Learning for Optimizing Wireless Systems with Instantaneous and Statistic Constraints 85Chengjian Sun, Changyang She, and Chenyang Yang5 Channel Coding and Decoding Schemes for URLLC 119Chentao Yue, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Branka Vucetic, and Yonghui li6 Sparse Vector Coding for Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications 169Byonghyo Shim7 Network Slicing for URLLC 215Peng Yang, Xing Xi, Tony Q. S. Quek, Jingxuan Chen, Xianbin Cao, and Dapeng Wu8 Beamforming Design for Multi-user Downlink OFDMA-URLLC Systems 241Walid R. Ghanem, Vahid Jamali, Yan Sun, and Robert Schober9 A Full-Duplex Relay System for URLLC with Adaptive Self-Interference Processing 259Hanjun Duan, Yufei Jiang, Xu Zhu, and Fu-Chun Zheng10 Mobility Prediction for Reducing End-to-End Delay in URLLC 291Zhanwei Hou, Changyang She, Yonghui Li, and Branka Vucetic11 Relay Robot-Aided URLLC in 5G Factory Automation with Industrial IoTs 321Dang Van Huynh, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Yuexing Peng, Antonino Masaracchia, and Trung Q. DuongIndex 343

Trung Q. Duong is a Chair Professor of Telecommunications, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and a Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Saeed R. Khosravirad is a Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. He is currently leading research projects in Bell Labs investigating various aspects of radio access for industrial IoT. Changyang She is a Research Associate with The University of Sydney, Australia. He is serving as the Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at the University of Sydney. Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Villum Investigator, previous holder of a Consolidator Grant (2015-2020) from the European Research Council (ERC) and a recipient of the Danish Elite Researcher Award (2016). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Mehdi Bennis is a Full Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. Dr Bennis is a Specialty Chief Editor for Data Science for Communications in the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Tony Q.S. Quek is a Full Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also the Director of Future Communications R&D Programme, ISTD Pillar Head, Sector Lead of SUTD AI Program, and Deputy Director of the SUTD-ZJU IDEA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

• Preface viiList of Contributors ix1 URLLC: Faster, Higher, Stronger, and Together 1Changyang She, Trung Q. Duong, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Petar Popovski, Mehdi Bennis, and Tony Q.S. Quek2 Statistical Characterization of URLLC: Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches 15Tobias Kallehauge, Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa, Anders E. Kalør, and Petar Popovski3 Characterizing and Taming the Tail in URLLC 61Chen-Feng Liu, Yung-Lin Hsu, Mehdi Bennis, and Hung-Yu Wei4 Unsupervised Deep Learning for Optimizing Wireless Systems with Instantaneous and Statistic Constraints 85Chengjian Sun, Changyang She, and Chenyang Yang5 Channel Coding and Decoding Schemes for URLLC 119Chentao Yue, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Branka Vucetic, and Yonghui li6 Sparse Vector Coding for Ultra-reliable and Low-latency Communications 169Byonghyo Shim7 Network Slicing for URLLC 215Peng Yang, Xing Xi, Tony Q. S. Quek, Jingxuan Chen, Xianbin Cao, and Dapeng Wu8 Beamforming Design for Multi-user Downlink OFDMA-URLLC Systems 241Walid R. Ghanem, Vahid Jamali, Yan Sun, and Robert Schober9 A Full-Duplex Relay System for URLLC with Adaptive Self-Interference Processing 259Hanjun Duan, Yufei Jiang, Xu Zhu, and Fu-Chun Zheng10 Mobility Prediction for Reducing End-to-End Delay in URLLC 291Zhanwei Hou, Changyang She, Yonghui Li, and Branka Vucetic11 Relay Robot-Aided URLLC in 5G Factory Automation with Industrial IoTs 321Dang Van Huynh, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Yuexing Peng, Antonino Masaracchia, and Trung Q. DuongIndex 343