Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication System provides a solid grounding in antennas and propagation, covering terrestrial and satellite radio systems in both mobile and fixed contents.

Includes:

• Overview of the fundamental electromagnetic principles underlying propagation and antennas
• Basic concepts of antennas
• Propagation measurement
• Narrowband and wideband channel modeling and the effect of the channel on communication system performance
• Methods that overcome and transform channel impairments

Contents

1. The Wireless Communication Channel
2. Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
3. Propagation Mechanisms
4. Antenna Fundamentals
5. Basic Propagation Models
6. Terrestrial Fixed Links
7. Satellite Fixed Links
8. Macrocells
9. Shadowing
10. Narrowband Fast Fading
11. Wideband Fast Fading
12. Microcells
13. Picocells
14. Megacells
15. Antennas for Mobile Systems
16. Overcoming Narrowband Fading via Diversity
17. Overcoming Wideband Fading
18. Adaptive Antennas
19. Channel Measurements for Mobile Systems
20. Future Developments in the Wireless Communication Channel

Appendices:

• Statistics, Probability and Stochastic Processes
• Tables and Data

Index

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