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Summary
Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks, 2nd Edition , presents a comprehensive overview of wireless communication system design, including the latest updates to considerations of over-the-terrain, atmospheric, and ionospheric communication channels. New features include the latest experimentally-verified stochastic approach, based on several multi-parametric models; all-new chapters on wireless network fundamentals, advanced technologies, and current and modern multiple access networks; and helpful problem sets at the conclusion of each chapter to enhance clarity. The volume's emphasis remains on a thorough examination of the role of obstructions on the corresponding propagation phenomena that influence the transmission of radio signals through line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation conditions along the radio path between the transmitter and the receiver antennas--and how adaptive antennas, used at the link terminals, can be used to minimize the deleterious effects of such obstructions. With its focus on 3G, 4G, MIMO, and the latest wireless technologies, Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks represents an invaluable resource to topics critical to the design of contemporary wireless communication systems.
Explores novel wireless networks beyond 3G, and advanced 4G technologies, such as MIMO, via propagation phenomena and the fundamentals of adapted antenna usage. Explains how adaptive antennas can improve GoS and QoS for any wireless channel, with specific examples and applications in land, aircraft and satellite communications. Introduces new stochastic approach based on several multi-parametric models describing various terrestrial scenarios, which have been experimentally verified in different environmental conditions New chapters on fundamentals of wireless networks, cellular and non-cellular, multiple access networks, new applications of adaptive antennas for positioning, and localization of subscribers Includes the addition of problem sets at the end of chapters describing fundamental aspects of wireless communication and antennas.Author Notes
Nathan Blaunstein received his BSc. and MSc. in Radiophysics and Electronics from the State University, Tomsk, and his Ph.D. and DSc. in Radiophysics and Electronics from the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation Academy of Sciences in Moscow, both in the former USSR.
Blaunstein is a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Radio Propagation in Cellular Networks (Artech House, 2000). He has done extensive research in problems of the ionosphere and ionospheric radio propagation for geophysical purposes, diffraction and scattering in various media for purpose of radiolocation, mobile-satellite and terrestrial communications, and for cellular and mobile systems performance and services (2 books, more than 130 articles and 3 patents), being a scientific adviser of Tadiran Telecom, InnoWave, Spectrolink, Magal Security Systems (Israel), Stellar-Senstar, Inc. (Canada), Ancoras (USA).
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Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Part I Fundamentals of Wireless Links and Networks | |
| 1 Wireless Communication Links with Fading | p. 1 |
| 2 Antenna Fundamentals | p. 34 |
| 3 Fundamentals of Wireless Networks | p. 54 |
| Part II Fundamentals of Radio Propagation | |
| 4 Electromagnetic Aspects of Wave Propagation over Terrain | p. 81 |
| 5 Terrestrial Radio Communications | p. 117 |
| 6 Indoor Radio Propagation | p. 179 |
| Part III Fundamentals of Adaptive Antennas | |
| 7 Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Networks | p. 216 |
| 8 Prediction of Signal Distribution in Space, Time, and Frequency Domains in Radio Channels for Adaptive Antenna Applications | p. 280 |
| 9 Prediction of Operational Characteristics of Adaptive Antennas | p. 375 |
| Part IV Practical Aspects of Terrestrial Networks Performance: Cellular And Noncellular | |
| 10 Multipath Fading Phenomena in Terrestrial Wireless Communication Links | p. 413 |
| 11 Cellular and Noncellular Communication Networks Design Based on Radio Propagation Phenomena | p. 494 |
| Part V Atmospheric and Satellite Communication Links and Networks | |
| 12 Effects of the Troposphere on Radio Propagation | p. 536 |
| 13 Ionospheric Radio Propagation | p. 591 |
| 14 Land-Satellite Communication Links | p. 639 |
| Index | p. 677 |
