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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781475775105
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189462595
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Electrical Engineering
Author
Ramakrishna Janaswamy
Publication Name
Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Computer Science
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
599
Item Weight
516g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ramakrishna Janaswamy
Series Title
The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science