Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications

Ramakrishna Janaswamy

ISBN 10: 0792372417 / ISBN 13: 9780792372417

Editore: Springer US, Springer US Nov 2000, 2000

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Neuware -This book emerged from teaching a graduate level course in propagation and smart antennas at the Naval Postgraduate School. In its present form, it is suitable not only as a graduate level text, but also as a reference book for industry and research use. The area of radiowave propagation and smart antennas is highly interdisciplinary, extracting material from electromagn- ics, communications, and signal processing. This book is useful to workers in electromagnetics who would like to supplement their background with relevant communicational aspects and to workers in communications who would like to supplement their background with relevant electromagnetic aspects. Anyone with a basic understanding of probability, wave propagation, digital com- nications, and elementary signal processing should be able to appreciate the contents of the book. The book consists of nine chapters with several worked out examples d- persed throughout. Chapter 1 covers the basics of cellular communications. Chapter 2 covers the basic principles of electromagnetic wave propagation relevant to path loss predictions in wireless communications. Students with little prior background in electromagnetics should find the first few sections of Chapter 2 self-sufficient. Empirical path loss models that are used in system design are treated in Chapter 3. The chapter includes the traditional models as well as some of the newer models. Chapter 4 has a thorough discussion on the causes and characterization of small scale fading. The topic of spatial c- relation that is very important for antenna arrays is discussed there in detail.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 334 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9780792372417

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Titolo: Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for...

Casa editrice: Springer US, Springer US Nov 2000

Data di pubblicazione: 2000

Legatura: Buch

Condizione: Neu

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This book emerged from teaching a graduate level course in propagation and smart antennas at the Naval Postgraduate School. In its present form, it is suitable not only as a graduate level text, but also as a reference book for industry and research use. The area of radiowave propagation and smart antennas is highly interdisciplinary, extracting material from electromagn- ics, communications, and signal processing. This book is useful to workers in electromagnetics who would like to supplement their background with relevant communicational aspects and to workers in communications who would like to supplement their background with relevant electromagnetic aspects. Anyone with a basic understanding of probability, wave propagation, digital com- nications, and elementary signal processing should be able to appreciate the contents of the book. The book consists of nine chapters with several worked out examples d- persed throughout. Chapter 1 covers the basics of cellular communications. Chapter 2 covers the basic principles of electromagnetic wave propagation relevant to path loss predictions in wireless communications. Students with little prior background in electromagnetics should find the first few sections of Chapter 2 self-sufficient. Empirical path loss models that are used in system design are treated in Chapter 3. The chapter includes the traditional models as well as some of the newer models. Chapter 4 has a thorough discussion on the causes and characterization of small scale fading. The topic of spatial c- relation that is very important for antenna arrays is discussed there in detail.

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Preface. 1. Fundamentals of Cellular Radio. 2. Principles of Radiowave Propagation. 3. Median Signal Predictions. 4. Characterization of Small Scale Fading. 5. Wideband Characterization of the Radio Channel. 6. Geometric Models for Angle and Time of Arrival. 7. Spatial Diversity. 8. Smart Antennas. 9. Multiple Input Multiple Output Wireless Communications. Appendices: A. Numerical Generation of a Random Process. B. Wideband Channel Model for N-Element Array. C. Distribution of Hermitian Quadratic Forms in Complex Gaussian Variates. Index.