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Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Ramakrishna Janaswamy

    1. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 599)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Fundamentals of Cellular Radio

    Pages 1-13

  3. Principles of Radiowave Propagation

    Pages 15-66

  4. Median Signal Predictions

    Pages 67-97

  5. Characterization of Small Scale Fading

    Pages 99-140

  6. Wideband Characterization of the Radio Channel

    Pages 141-162

  7. Geometric Models for Angle and Time of Arrival

    Pages 163-184

  8. Spatial Diversity

    Pages 185-217

  9. Smart Antennas

    Pages 219-267

  10. Multiple Input Multiple Output Wireless Communications

    Pages 269-278

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 279-312
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About this book

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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  • Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

    Ramakrishna Janaswamy

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