Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks

B-IGI-001

01/01/2009

Authors Abstract
Content

The dramatic growth of the wireless communication industry growth has resulted in searches for new technologies to provide broader bandwidth per user channel, better quality, and new value-added services. Employing smart antennas presents an elegant and relatively economical way to improve the performance of wireless transmission.

This book is the most comprehensive reference source on smart antenna technologies. Featuring chapter contributions from leading experts in both academia and industry, it offers in-depth descriptions of terminologies, concepts, methods, and applications related to smart antennas in various wireless systems.

Topics include:

  • Adaptive beamforming assisted receiver
  • Ad hoc networks
  • Collaborative beamforming
  • Compact array antenna
  • Eigencombining
  • Future wireless networks
  • Joint beamforming
  • MIMO beamforming
  • MIMO channels
  • MIMO systems
  • Mobile ad hoc networks
  • Multi-antenna communication systems
  • Multi-beam antennas
  • Power control schemes
  • Random array theory
  • Robust adaptive beamforming
  • Signal transmission
  • Smart antennas
  • SMI beamforming
  • Space-time coding
  • Space-time modulated codes
  • Wideband smart antenna
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Citation
Ohira, T., Cheng, J., and Sun, C., "Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks,".(Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009),.
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Publisher
Published
Jan 1, 2009
Product Code
B-IGI-001
Content Type
Handbook
Language
English