Microwave Engineering (eBook)

Everything readers need to implement and support a wireless
point-to-point communications environment

In order to cope with the tremendous explosion of the
telecommunications market, the field of wireless communications has
greatly expanded in the past fifty years, especially in the domains
of microwave radio systems including line-of-sight, satellites, and
tropospheric-scatter. Now, Microwave Engineering: Land & Space
Radio- communications answers the growing worldwide demand for an
authoritative book on this important and emerging subject area.

In five succinct chapters, the book introduces students and
practicing engineers to the main propagation phenomena that are
encountered and that must be considered in the design and planning
for any given system type and frequency of operation:

* Electromagnetic wave propagation--An introduction to the
fundamentaltheory of radiation and propagation of electromagnetic
waves, polarization, antenna properties, free space attenuation,
atmospheric refractivity, diffraction, reflection, multipath and
scattering mechanisms, hydrometeor effects, and probability
distributions

* Principles of digital communication systems--Modulation
techniques, signal processing, error probability, spectral
characteristics, spectrum efficiency, thermal noise,
intermodulation, jamming, and interference

* Microwave line-of-sight systems--Path profile, flat fading
and frequency-selective fading, interferometric method for space
and frequency diversity techniques, International Standards and ITU
Recommendations, optimization of the frequency-plan resource, link
budget, quality, reliability, and availability

* Microwave transhorizon systems--Design of
beyond-the-horizon communication systems, properties of scattering
and diffraction modes, multipath statistical relations, long-term
and short-term field strength variations, quality of service,
optimization of antenna alignment, and experimental analysis of
various diversity and combining methods

* Satellite communications--Design of satellite
communications systems, orbital parameters, Earth-satellite
geometry, uplink and downlink budgets for both space and Earth
segments, and total system noise temperature

Microwave Engineering: Land & Space Radiocommunications is
suitable for engineers involved in wireless telecommunications, as
well as for students and members of various seminars and
workshops.