Radiowave propagation and smart antennas for wireless communications /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Janaswamy, Ramakrishna, 1958-
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, �2001.
• Σειρά: Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science ; SECS 599.
• Θέματα: Wireless communication systems.; Radio wave propagation.; Adaptive antennas.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.; Electronic books.

Useful as a text as well as a reference, this is one of the first books of its kind to combine basic and advanced topics of radiowave propagation and smart antennas into a single volume. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and contains material drawn from the electromagnetics and communications...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Cellular Radio
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Cellular Concept
• 3. Multiple Access Schemes
• 4. Traffic Engineering
• 5. Summary
• Chapter 2. Principles of Radiowave Propagation
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Plane Waves
• 3. Classification of Electromagnetic Media
• 4. Free-Space Transmission
• 5. Plane Wave Reflections from Planar Interface
• 6. Radio Horizons
• 7. Two Ray Model Over Flat Earth
• 8. Effect of Obstacles
• 9. 3D Diffraction (UTD)
• 10. Forward Propagation
• 11. Summary
• Chapter 3. Median Signal Predictions
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Scales of Fading
• 3. Statistical Distribution of the Median Signal Level
• 4. Determination of Coverage Area from a Base Station
• 5. Empirical Models for Path Loss
• 6. Longley-Rice Model:
• 7. Summary
• Chapter 4. Characterization of Small Scale Fading
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Spatial Distribution of the Field
• 3. Spatial Correlation of Field
• 4. Summary
• Chapter 5. Wideband Characterization of the Radio Channel
• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Simple Two-Ray Model
• 3. Linear System Description
• 4. Random Time-Variant Communications Channels
• 5. Classification of Channels
• 6. Wideband Impulse Response of the Radio Channel
• 7. Power Delay Profile
• 8. Frequency Selectivity of Channel
• 9. Summary
• Chapter 6. Geometric Models for Angle and Time of Arrival
• 1. Introduction
• 2. General Formulation
• 3. Elliptical Scattering Model
• 4. Circular Scattering Model
• 5. Gaussian Scatter density
• 6. Summary
• Chaper 7. Spatial Diversity
• 1. Introduction
• 2. General Receive Array Theory
• 3. Combining Techniques
• 4. Selection Combining
• 5. Maximal Ratio Combining
• 6. Equal Gain Combining
• 7. Diversity Gain
• 8. Antenna Gain
• 9. Effect of Branch Correlation
• 10. Mutual Coupling
• 11. Summary
• Chapter 8. Smart Antennas
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Capacity Increase with Switched Beam Antenna
• 3. Adaptive Antennas
• 4. Summary
• Chapter 9. Multiple Input Multiple Output Wireless Communications
• 1. Introduction
• 2. MIMO Channel Capacity
• 3. Summary
• 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
• 1. Matrix Preliminaries
• 2. Transformation of Variables
• 3. P.D.F. of Hermitian Quadratic Form