Smart antennas with MATLAB?, Second Edition / Frank B Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Frank B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MATLAB.

Adaptive antennas.

Adaptive antennas--Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables.

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2015.

Summary:

Fully revised for the latest advances in the field, this comprehensive professional reference offers a complete overview of the principles behind smart antenna design and operation and is the only book to addresses reconfigurable antennas and vector antennas.

Contents:

A. About the author

B. Preface

Examples and solutions on the web

For instructors

C. Acknowledgments

1. 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

2. 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

Problems

3. 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

4. Array fundamentals

Linear arrays

Array weighting

Circular arrays

Rectangular planar arrays

Fixed beam arrays

Fixed sidelobe canceling

Retrodirective arrays

5. 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

Covariance matrix

6. Propagation channel characteristics

Flat earth model

Multipath propagation mechanisms

Propagation channel basics

Improving signal quality

7. Angle-of-arrival estimation

Fundamentals of matrix algebra

Array correlation matrix

Aoa estimation methods

8. Smart antennas

Introduction

The historical development of smart antennas

Fixed weight beamforming basics

Adaptive beamforming

9. Direction finding

Adcock dipole antenna array

Modern df applied to adcock and cross-loop arrays

Geolocation

References/notes

10. Vector sensors

Vector sensor antenna array response

Vector sensor direction finding

Vector sensor beamforming

Vector sensor cramer-rao lower bound

Acknowledgment

11. Smart antenna design

Global optimization algorithms

Optimizing smart antenna arrays

Adaptive nulling

Nec in smart antenna design

Evolutionary antenna design

Current and future trends

Problems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Jun. 25, 2015.

ISBN:

9780071822381

0071822380

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.