1st Edition

Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications

Edited By Lal Chand Godara Copyright 2002
    940 Pages 400 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The move toward worldwide wireless communications continues at a remarkable pace, and the antenna element of the technology is crucial to its success. With contributions from more than 30 international experts, the Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications brings together all of the latest research and results to provide engineering professionals and students with a one-stop reference on the theory, technologies, and applications for indoor, hand-held, mobile, and satellite systems.

    Beginning with an introduction to wireless communications systems, it offers an in-depth treatment of propagation prediction and fading channels. It then explores antenna technology with discussion of antenna design methods and the various antennas in current use or development for base stations, hand held devices, satellite communications, and shaping beams. The discussions then move to smart antennas and phased array technology, including details on array theory and beamforming techniques.

    Space diversity, direction-of-arrival estimation, source tracking, and blind source separation methods are addressed, as are the implementation of smart antennas and the results of field trials of systems using smart antennas implemented. Finally, the hot media topic of the safety of mobile phones receives due attention, including details of how the human body interacts with the electromagnetic fields of these devices.

    Its logical development and extensive range of diagrams, figures, and photographs make this handbook easy to follow and provide a clear understanding of design techniques and the performance of finished products. Its unique, comprehensive coverage written by top experts in their fields promises to make the Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications the standard reference for the field.

    WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS
    Cellular Systems, Lal C. Godara
    Satellite-Based Mobile Communications, Mike Ryan
    Propagation Prediction for Urban Systems, Henry L. Bertoni and Saul A. Torrico
    Fading Channels, Bernard Sklar
    ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY AND NUMERICAL METHODS
    Antenna parameters, various generic antennas and feed systems, and available software, Jennifer Bernhard and Eric Michielssen
    Microstrip Patch Antennas, Rod Waterhouse
    The Finite Difference Time Domain Technique for Microstrip Antenna Applications, Atef Elsherbeni, Christos, Christodoulou, and J. Gomez-Tagle
    Method of Moments Applied to Antennas, Tapan K. Sarkar, Antonije R. Djordjevic, and Branko M. Kolundzija
    Genetic Algorithms, Wesley O. Williamson and Sembiam R. Rengarajan
    High Frequency Techniques, Roberto G. Rojas and Te-Hong Lee
    ANTENNA DEVELOPMENTS AND PRACTICAL ANTENNAS
    Outdoor and Indoor Cellular/PHS Base Stations Antennas in Japan, Hiroyuki Arai
    Hand Held Antennas, Atef Elsherbeni
    Aeronautical and Maritime Antennas for Satellite Communications, Shingo Ohmori
    Fixed and Mobile Antennas for Satellite Communications, Marek Bialkowski, Nemai C. Karmakar, Paul W. Davis, and Hyok J. Song
    Shaped Beam Antennas, Carlos A. Fernandes
    SMART ANTENNAS AND ARRAY THEORY
    Basic Array Theory and Pattern Synthesis Techniques, Boon Poh Ng and Meng Hwa Er
    Electromagnetic Vector Sensors with Beamforming Applications, Arye Nehorai, K.C. Ho, and B.T.G. Tan
    Optimal and Suboptimal Transmit Beamforming, Mats Bengtsson and Björn Ottersten
    Spatial Diversity for Wireless Communications, Ramakrishna Janaswamy
    Direction-of-Arrival Estimation in Mobile Communication Environments, Mats Viberg and Thomas Svantesson
    Blind Channel Identification and Source Separation in SDMA Systems, Victor Barroso, Joao Xavier, and Jose M.F. Moura
    IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART ANTENNA SYSTEMS
    Smart Antenna System Architecture and Hardware Implementation, T. Bao VU
    Phased Array Technology for Wireless Systems, Hiroyo Ogawa, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Ami Kanazawa, Ryu Miura, and Masato Tanaka
    Adaptive Antennas for GSM and TDMA (IS-136) Systems, Soren Anderson, Bo Hagerman, M. Berg, H. Dam, U. Forssen, J. Karlsson, F. Kronestedt, S. Mazur, and K.J. Molnar
    ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND HUMAN BODY
    Electromagnetic Interactions of Hand-held Wireless Communication Antennas with the Human Body, Magdy Iskander and Zhengqing Yun
    Safety Aspects of Radio-Frequency Effects on Humans from Communication Devices, Alan W. Preece

    Biography

    Lal Chand Godara