Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications
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Author(s): K. Siwiak and Y. Bahreini
Publisher: Artech House Books
ISBN: 9781596930735
Format: hardback + CD-ROM
464pp
Price: £79.00
Review Date: 13 June 2007
Review: The first edition of this textbook focused on three communications problems: fixed-site antennas, radiowave propagation and small antennas proximate to the body. This new edition has a co-author who provides new material on ultrawideband (UWB) technology and a focus on mobile/cellular in the section on personal communications systems. There are chapters on: fixed-site antennas; the radio communications channel; the radio frequency spectrum; communications using Earth-orbiting satellites; radiowave propagation over a smooth Earth; urban and suburban paths in radiowave propagation; signals in multipath propagation; receiver sensitivity and transmitted fields; simulated human body devices; loops, dipoles and patch antennas; and radio communications system designs. The CD-ROM includes MathCAD templates and software examples that are linked to the text.