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Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications With MATLAB

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ISBN-10: 007144789X

ISBN-13: 9780071447898

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frank Gross

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Smart antennas boost the power of a wireless network, saving energy and money and greatly increasing the range of wireless broadband. "Smart Antennas is a rigorous textbook on smart antenna design and deployment.
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Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 9/14/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Frank Gross, Ph.D. (Tallahassee, FL) is professor and chair of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. His expertise lies in a variety of physics-based disciplines, including electromagnetics, antennas, propagation, metamaterials, and array processing.

Preface
Introduction
What is a Smart Antenna?
Why are Smart Antennas Emerging Now?
What are the Benefits of Smart Antennas?
Smart Antennas Involve Many Disciplines
Overview of the Book
References
Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields
Maxwell's Equations
The Helmholtz Wave Equation
Propagation in Rectangular Coordinates
Propagation in Spherical Coordinates
Electric Field Boundary Conditions
Magnetic Field Boundary Conditions
Planewave Reflection and Transmission Coefficients
Normal incidence
Oblique incidence
Propagation Over Flat Earth
Knife-Edge Diffraction
References
Problems
Antenna Fundamentals
Antenna Field Regions
Power Density
Radiation Intensity
Basic Antenna Nomenclature
Antenna pattern
Antenna boresight
Principal plane patterns
Beamwidth
Directivity
Beam solid angle
Gain
Effective aperture
Friis Transmission Formula
Magnetic Vector Potential and the Far Field
Linear Antennas
Infinitesimal dipole
Finite length dipole
Loop Antennas
Loop of constant phasor current
References
Problems
Array Fundamentals
Linear Arrays
Two element array
Uniform N-element linear array
Uniform N-element linear array directivity
Array Weighting
Beamsteered and weighted arrays
Circular Arrays
Beamsteered circular arrays
Rectangular Planar Arrays
Fixed Beam Arrays
Butler matrices
Fixed Sidelobe Canceling
Retrodirective Arrays
Passive retrodirective array
Active retrodirective array
References
Problems
Principles of Random Variables and Processes
Definition of Random Variables
Probability Density Functions
Expectation and Moments
Common Probability Density Functions
Gaussian density
Rayleigh density
Uniform density
Exponential density
Rician density
Laplace density
Stationarity and Ergodicity
Autocorrelation and Power Spectral Density
Correlation Matrix
References
Problems
Propagation Channel Characteristics
Flat Earth Model
Multipath Propagation Mechanisms
Propagation Channel Basics
Fading
Fast fading modeling
Channel impulse response
Power delay profile
Prediction of power delay profiles
Power angular profile
Prediction of angular spread
Power delay-angular profile
Channel dispersion
Slow fading modeling
Improving Signal Quality
Equalization
Diversity
Channel coding
MIMO
References
Problems
Angle-of-Arrival Estimation
Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra
Vector basics
Matrix basics
Array Correlation Matrix
AOA Estimation Methods
Bartlett AOA estimate
Capon AOA estimate
Linear prediction AOA estimate
Maximum entropy AOA estimate
Pisarenko harmonic decomposition AOA estimate
Min-norm AOA estimate
MUSIC AOA estimate
Root-MUSIC AOA estimate
ESPRIT AOA estimate
References
Problems
Smart Antennas
Introduction
The Historical Development of Smart Antennas
Fixed Weight Beamforming Basics
Maximum signal-to-interference ratio
Minimum mean-square error
Maximum likelihood
Minimum variance
Adaptive Beamforming
Least mean squares
Sample matrix inversion
Recursive least squares
Constant modulus
Least squares constant modulus
Conjugate gradient method
Spreading sequence array weights
Description of the new SDMA receiver
References
Problems
Index