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a version of which was also published by Morgan & Claypool in 2020as part of their Synthesis Lectures on Network Systems.

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This book is part of theSystems Approach Series, with an online version published athttps://5G.systemsapproach.org.

For those users looking for our earlier 5G book,5G Mobile Networks:A Systems Approach, published as this URL, you can still find sourcefor it archived onGitHub.This new book incorporates the background material covered in the oldone, plus goes into significant detail about how Private 5G isimplemented and deployed as a managed cloud service.

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