Advanced Antenna Array Engineering for 6g and Beyond Wireless Communications

Reviews advances in the design and deployment of antenna arrays for the next generation of cellular technology, offering new solutions for the telecommunications industry Advanced Antenna Arrays for 5G and Beyond addresses the challenges in designing and deploying antennas which deliver 5G performance, can be collocated with 4G antennas, and are immune to interference caused by future 6G antennas mounted on airborne and spaceborne platforms. This timely and authoritative volume presents innovative solutions for developing integrated communications networks of high-gain, individually-scannable, multi-beam antennas that are reconfigurable and conform to all platforms. The text begins with an up-to-date discussion of the engineering issues facing future wireless communications systems, followed by detailed review of different beamforming networks for multi-beam antennas. Subsequent chapters address problems of 4G/5G antenna collocation, discuss differentially-fed antenna arrays, explore conformal transmit arrays for airborne platforms, and more. Based primarily on the authors' extensive work in the field, including original research never before published, this important new volume: * Reviews multi-beam feed networks for 5G, array decoupling and de-scattering methods, and advances in 2D Butler matrix configurations * Offers cost-effective solutions for deploying multi-beam massive antenna arrays and improving antenna pattern distortion * Provides a systematic study on differentially fed antenna arrays that are resistant to interference caused by future multifunctional/multi-generation systems * Features previously unpublished material on reconfigurable leaky wave antennas * Includes novel algorithms for synthesizing and optimizing thinned massive arrays, conformal arrays, frequency invariant arrays, and other future arrays Advanced Antenna Arrays for 5G and Beyond is an invaluable resource for antenna engineers and researchers, as well as graduate and senior undergraduate students in the field.