Physical Principles of Wireless Communications, Second Edition

An Introduction to Modern Wireless Communications A Brief History of Wireless Communications Faraday, Maxwell, and Hertz: The Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of Wireless Communications Developments in the Vacuum Electronics Era (1906 to 1947) The Modern Era in Wireless Communications (1947 to the Present) Basic Concepts Information Capacity of a Communication Channel Antenna Fundamentals The Basic Layout of a Wireless Communications System Decibels and Link Budgets Characteristics of Some Modern Communication Systems Mobile Communications (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA, and Trunking) Analog Cell Phone Systems Digital Cell Phone Systems (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA, and Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA) Overview of Past, Present, and Future Cell Phone Systems Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) of Computers SATCOM Systems The Plan of This Book Problems BibliographyNoise in Wireless Communications Fundamental Noise Concepts Radiation Resistance and Antenna Efficiency Nyquist Noise Theorem, Antenna Temperature, and Receiver Noise Equivalent Circuit of Antenna and Receiver for Calculating Noise Contributions to Antenna Temperature Thermal Sources of Noise and Blackbody Radiation Cosmic Noise Atmospheric Noise Big Bang Noise (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation) Noise Attenuation Noise in Specific Systems Noise in Pagers Noise in Cell Phones Noise in Millimeter-Wave SATCOM Problems BibliographyAntennas Brief Review of Electromagnetism Maxwell's Equations and Boundary Conditions Vector Potential, and the Inhomogeneous Helmholtz Equation Radiation from a Hertzian Dipole Solution of the Inhomogeneous Helmholtz Equation in the Vector Potential A Near Fields and Far Fields of a Hertzian Dipole Basic Antenna Parameters Directive Gain, D(f,q); Directivity, D; and Gain, G Radiation Resistance of a Hertzian Dipole Antenna Electrically Short Dipole Antenna (Length Small Loop Antennas Receiving Antennas, Polarization, and Aperture Antennas Universal Relationship between Gain and Effective Area Friis Transmission Formula Polarization Mismatch A Brief Treatment of Aperture Antennas Thin-Wire Dipole Antennas General Analysis of Thin-Wire Dipole Antennas The Half-Wave Dipole Problems BibliographyAntenna Arrays Omnidirectional Rad