Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems SECOND EDITION: published March 2007, with around 40% extra content by Simon R. Saunders & Alejandro Aragón-Zavala Published by John Wiley & Sons A vital source of information for wireless communication engineers as well as for students at postgraduate or senior undergraduate levels. 517 Pages

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Synopsis:

Antennas and propagation are of fundamental importance to the coverage, capacity and quality of all wireless communication systems. This book provides a solid grounding in antennas and propagation, covering terrestrial and satellite radio systems in both mobile and fixed contexts. Building on the highly successful first edition, this fully updated test features significant new material and brand new exercises and supplementary materials to support course tutors.

Including:

• Overview of the fundamental electromagnetic principles underlying propagation and antennas
• Basic concepts of antennas and their application to specific wireless systems
• Propagation measurements, modelling and prediction for fixed links, macrocells, microcells, picocells and megacells
• Narrowband and wideband channel modelling and the effect of the channel on communication systems performance
• Methods that overcome and transform channel impairments to enhance performance using diversity, adaptive antennas and equalisers

Key second edition updates:

• New chapters on "Antennas for Mobile Systems" and "Channel Measurements for Mobile Radio Systems".
• Coverage of new technologies, including MIMO antenna systems, Ultra Wideband (UWB) and the OFDM technology used in Wi-Fi and WiMAX systems.
• Many new propagation models for macrocells, microcells and picocells.
• Fully revised and expanded end-of-chapter exercises.
• Solutions manual and presentation slides available online for course tutors. (N.B. the solutions manual link will be live when the book is published)

Details of the first edition:

First Edition (publ. 1999)

The first edition sold around 6000 copies, was widely adopted as a course text and has been widely referenced by many other authors.

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