Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Links
by Nathan Blaunstein and Christos Christodoulou, John Wiley & Sons, 2007
Contents
Preface xv
Chapter One: Fundamentals of Radio Communications 1
Chapter Two: Antenna Fundamentals 22
Chapter Three: Fundamentals of Wave Propagation in Random Media 36
Chapter Four: Electromagnetic Aspects of Wave Propagation over Terrain 87
Chapter Five: Terrestrial Radio Communications 125
Chapter Six: Effects of the Troposphere on Radio Propagation 175
Chapter Seven: Ionospheric Radio Propagation 237
Chapter Eight: Indoor Radio Propagation 302
Chapter Nine: Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Networks 335
Chapter Ten: Prediction of Signal Distribution in Space, Time and Frequency Domains in Radio Channels for Adaptive Antenna Applications 393
Chapter Eleven: Multipath Fading Phenomena in Land Wireless Links 441
Chapter Twelve: Cellular Communication Networks Design Based on Radio Propagation Phenomena 497
Chapter Thirteen: Prediction of Operational Characteristics of Adaptive Antennas 530
Chapter Fourteen: Land–Satellite Communication Links 548
Index 607