Wireless Communications Systems: An Introduction

"This book provides the fundamentals for understanding and designing wireless communications systems. The first half of the book provides an introduction to the basic concepts needed to understand wireless communications. The second half of the book has topics that apply the basic concepts learned from the first half. The book covers topics, such as Null filling, Microwave links, Leaky feeder cables, MATLAB emphasis, and direction finding, for example. The book also explains a critical component of the wireless system, the antenna. This book provides the material for a one semester course to introduce the reader to the fundamentals of wireless engineering a clear and concise manner with many examples. Wireless systems encompass a wide range of applications including satellite communications, smart phones, radio and television broadcasting, RFID, and IoT. It can be assumed that their use will only continue to develop and grow in the future. Having an understanding of wireless applications is extremely useful to all types of engineers"--