Wireless Communication Antenna Handbook

Author: Zuo Qunsheng
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive new manual introducing antenna technology in wireless communication systems. The main contents include:
(1) Cellular systems;
(2) Satellite mobile communication;
(3) Signal transmission estimation in urban systems;
(4) Fading channels;
(5) Antenna parameters, classification of antennas and feed systems, and commercial software;
(6) Microstrip patch antennas;
(7) Application of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method in microstrip antennas;
(8) Application of the Method of Moments (MoM) in antennas;
(9) Genetic algorithms;
(10) High-frequency techniques;
(11) Base station antennas for outdoor and indoor cellular/personal handheld phone systems in Japan;
(12) Handheld phone antennas;
(13) Aircraft and maritime antennas for satellite communication;
(14) Fixed and mobile antennas for satellite communication;
(15) Shaped beam antennas;
(16) Basic theory of arrays and pattern synthesis techniques;
(17) Electromagnetic vector sensors for beamforming;
(18) Optimization and sub-optimization beamforming;
(19) Spatial diversity in antenna communication;
(20) Estimation of arrival angles of incoming waves in wireless communication environments;
(21) Blind channel identification and source separation in space-division multiple-access (SDMA) systems;
(22) Design and hardware implementation of smart antenna systems;
(23) Phased array technology in antenna systems;
(24) Adaptive antennas for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) (provisional standard—136) systems;
(25) Electromagnetic interaction between handheld wireless communication antennas and the human body;
(26) Safety issues of radiofrequency effects of communication equipment on the human body.
Target Audience: Practical electronic engineers and communication engineers; university teachers and graduate students in the fields of mobile communication, signal processing, antenna theory, and smart antennas; antenna designers.
This book is a comprehensive new manual introducing antenna technology in wireless communication systems. The main contents include: cellular systems; satellite mobile communication; signal transmission estimation in urban systems; fading information; antenna parameters; classification of antennas and feed systems, and commercial software, etc.