Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications with MATLAB provides a complete overview of the basic electromagnetics, propagation, and signal processing behind smart antenna design.
Contents
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
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
- Propagation Over Flat Earth
- Knife-Edge Diffraction
Antenna Fundamentals
- Antenna Field Regions
- Power Density
- Radiation Intensity
- Basic Antenna Nomenclature
- Friis Transmission Formula
- Magnetic Vector Potential and the Far Field
- Linear Antennas
- Loop Antennas
Array Fundamentals
- Linear Arrays
- Array Weighting
- Circular Arrays
- Rectangular Planar Arrays
- Fixed Beam Arrays
- Fixed Sidelobe Canceling
- Retrodirective Arrays
Principles of Random Variables and Processes
- Definition of Random variables
- Probability Density Functions
- Expectation and Moments
- Common probability density functions
- Stationarity and ergodicity
- Autocorrelation and power spectral density
- Correlation matrix
Propagation Channel Characteristics
- Flat Earth Model
- Multipath Propagation Mechanisms
- Propagation Channel Basics
- Improving Signal Quality
Angle-of-Arrival Estimation
- Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra
- Array Correlation Matrix
- AOA Estimation Methods
Smart Antennas
- Introduction
- The Historical Development of “Smart Antennas”
- Fixed Weight Beamforming Basics
- Adaptive Beamforming
Index
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