1st Edition
by Gérard Barué (Author)
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:
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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
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Principles
of digital communication systems―Modulation techniques, signal
processing, error probability, spectral characteristics, spectrum
efficiency, thermal noise, intermodulation, jamming, and interference
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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
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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
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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.
