Radiowave Propagation and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science Book 599) 2001st Edition, Kindle Edition by Ramakrishna Janaswamy  (Author) 

This book emerged from teaching a graduate-level course in propagation and smart antennas at the Naval Postgraduate School. In its present form, it is suitable as a graduate-level text and a reference book for industry and research use. The area of radio wave propagation and smart antennas is highly interdisciplinary, extracting material from electromagnetics, communications, and signal processing. This book is useful to workers in electromagnetics who would like to supplement their background with relevant communicational aspects and to workers in communications who would like to supplement their background with relevant electromagnetic aspects. Anyone with a basic understanding of probability, wave propagation, digital com- nications, and elementary signal processing should be able to appreciate the contents of the book. The book consists of nine chapters with several worked out examples d- persed throughout. Chapter 1 covers the basics of cellular communications. Chapter 2 covers the basic principles of electromagnetic wave propagation relevant to path loss predictions in wireless communications. Students with little prior background in electromagnetics should find the first few sections of Chapter 2 self-sufficient. Empirical path loss models used in system design are treated in Chapter 3. The chapter includes the traditional models as well as some of the newer models. Chapter 4 has a thorough discussion on the causes and characterization of small-scale fading. The topic of spatial c- relation, which is very important for antenna arrays, is discussed in detail.