Enabling Technologies for Social Distancing

Diep N. Nguyen is a faculty member, Director of Agile Communications and Computing group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. His research interests include 5G/6G, computer networking, and machine learning applications, with emphasis on systems' performance and security/privacy. He is a senior member of the IEEE, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Access, Sensors Journal, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS).Dinh Thai Hoang is a faculty member with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include emerging topics in wireless communications and networking such as machine learning, ambient backscatter communications, IRS, edge intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT, and 5G/6G networks. He is currently an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.Thang X. Vu is a research scientist in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. His research interests include wireless communications, with particular interests in cache-assisted 5G, cloud radio access networks, machine learning for communications, and resources allocation and optimization. He holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paris-Sud, France.Eryk Dutkiewicz is a professor and head of the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has a joint professor appointment at Hokkaido University, Japan. He is also a co-director of the UTS-VNU Joint Research Centres in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has been the PI on the 5G Dynamic Spectrum Sharing project and Ubiquitous Communications for 5G Networks project funded by Intel Corporation.Symeon Chatzinotas is full professor, chief scientist I and Head of the research group SIGCOM in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. His research interests cover multiuser information theory, cooperative/cognitive communications, cross-layer wireless network optimization and content delivery networks. He has contributed to numerous R&D projects. He has co-edited and authored several scientific books.Björn Ottersten is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, radar and computer vision. He has been digital champion of Luxembourg, acting as adviser to the European Commission and also member of the Boards of the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. He has served as editor in chief of EURASIP Signal Processing.

• Chapter 1: Social distancing and related technologies: fundamental backgroundChapter 2: Background on positioning and localization for social distancingChapter 3: Wireless and networking technologies for social distancing - indoor and outdoorChapter 4: Computer vision technologies for social distancingChapter 5: Artificial intelligence and big data for COVID-19 and social distancingChapter 6: Advanced sensing and automation technologiesChapter 7: Security, privacy and blockchain applications in COVID-19 detection and social distancingChapter 8: Real-time optimization for social distancingChapter 9: Incentives for individual compliance with pandemic response measuresChapter 10: Open issues and future research directions