Multi-Element Antenna Processing

The application of multi-element antennas and the associated processing techniques for future communication systems engineering is massive and it is therefore essential that future engineers grasp the underlying principles behind these theoretical advances - this is the book they will need! The principles behind multi-element antennas are long established for the applications of beam forming and spatial adaptive processing and books on these topics are available, mostly as texts concerning radar processing or conventional mobile communications. However, the more recent interest in the application of multi-element antennas is to next generation wireless communication systems. This interest has been sparked by some theoretical advances in the understanding of the way the spatial domain could be fully exploited to realise massive increases in capacity for wireless communication systems. Along with this fundamental advance has come the development of new coding and processing concepts and techniques.
This book: Presents both the traditional array signal processing and information theory/communications perspective Covers multi-element antenna techniques widely considered to be the most promising avenue for significantly increasing the bandwidth efficiency of wireless data transmission systems Provides a rigorous presentation of the field by making the links between established concepts and the more recent advances clear, enabling you to see how more recent advances build upon established concepts Emphasises the practical exploitation of theoretical results and explains how the real exploitation of theoretical results has to be adapted to allow for their realisation Draws upon the authors wealth of actual results achieved from practical experience in the field