Propagation Engineering in Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition

This book covers the basic principles for understanding radio wave propagation for common frequency bands used in radio-communications. This includes achievements and developments in propagation models for wireless communication. This book is intended to bridge the gap between the theoretical calculations and approaches to the applied procedures needed for radio links design in a proper manner. The authors emphasize propagation engineering by giving fundamental information and explain the use of basic principles together with technical achievements. This new edition includes additional information on radio wave propagation in guided media and technical issues for fiber optics cable networks with several examples and problems. This book also includes a solution manual – with 90 solved examples distributed throughout the chapters – and 158 problems including practical values and assumptions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Radiowaves
Chapter 2 Basic Principles in Radiowave Propagation
Chapter 3 Radiowave Propagation in Troposphere
Chapter 4 Radiowave Propagation in Ionosphere
Chapter 5 Propagation in 3kHz to 30MHz Band
Chapter 6 Terrestrial Mobile Radio Propagation
Chapter 7 Line-of-Sight Propagation
Chapter 8 Propagation in Guided Media
Chapter 9 Selected Topics in Radiowave Propagation
Appendix A Logarithmic System of Units
Appendix B ITU-R Recommendations P-Series
Appendix C ITU-R-Based Terms and Definitions Related to Propagation in Non-ionized Media (P-310)