Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems: 2nd Edition: Amazon.ca: Simon Saunders, Alejandro Aragón-Zavala: Books

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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 text features significant new material and brand new exercises and supplementary materials to support course tutors. A vital source of information for practising and aspiring wireless communication engineers as well as for students at postgraduate and senior undergraduate levels, this book provides a fundamental grounding in the principles of antennas and propagation without excessive recourse to mathematics. It also equips the reader with practical prediction techniques for the design and analysis of a very wide range of common wireless communication systems.

Including:

Overview of the fundamental electromagnetic principles underlying propagation and antennas.
Basic concepts of antennas and their application to specific wireless systems.
Propagation measurement, modelling and prediction for fixed links, macrocells, microcells, picocells and megacells
Narrowband and wideband channel modelling and the effect of the channel on communication system 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.
The Solutions Manual can be requested from http://www.wiley.com/go/saunders_antennas_2e

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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 text features significant new material and brand new exercises and supplementary materials to support course tutors. A vital source of information for practising and aspiring wireless communication engineers as well as for students at postgraduate and senior undergraduate levels, this book provides a fundamental grounding in the principles of antennas and propagation without excessive recourse to mathematics. It also equips the reader with practical prediction techniques for the design and analysis of a very wide range of common wireless communication systems.

Including:

Overview of the fundamental electromagnetic principles underlying propagation and antennas.
Basic concepts of antennas and their application to specific wireless systems.
Propagation measurement, modelling and prediction for fixed links, macrocells, microcells, picocells and megacells.
Narrowband and wideband channel modelling and the effect of the channel on communication system 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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A sketchy book that leniently gets average, Nov 9 2003

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This review is from: Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems (Hardcover)

This book is very sketchy.
Most of the subsections are incomplete, or very brief by omitting a lot of things.
The majority of the included formulas are lacking of any derivations or adequate explanation.
Some of the formulas are also incorrect and unjustified, like the array factor in p76.
Errors have been found on the newer edition (although the previous edition is correct).
For instance, Fresnel transmission coefficient is wrong for the parallel polarization.
This is not just a typo since the mistake is carried on the example 3.1 p37.
There are much better books on antennas and propagation out there.
I just bought this one as a requirement for my class, and I ended up reading other books to cover the missing spots.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a Good Book, Mar 6 2002

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This review is from: Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems (Hardcover)

This book is bad, the topics are not in depth or well explained. Do not think to buy this book, if you are interested in the field of propagation buy "Mobile Radio Propagation Channel".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very valuable book for the mobile communications engineer, Jun 23 2000

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This review is from: Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems (Hardcover)

This book covers the field of Antennas and Propagation consistently with great detail. The content is well structured and offers great information for every reader, regardless of technical background.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless
The Table of Contents is great, it covers every topic needed for a wireless communications class. But it is deceiving, the topics are not in depth or well explained. Read more

Published on April 24 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful standard derivative book
This book reviews antenna and propagation theory which is covered well elsewhere in the public output of others, but with a slant from a practitioner in the modern field of mobile... Read more

Published on Dec 30 1999