Low-cost Smart Antennas

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Sandra Grayson, Louis Manohar, and Kanchana Kathirvelu of Wiley for their help and guidance during the preparation of this book.

Dr Qi Luo would like to express his appreciation and gratitude to his family for their encouragement, understanding, and patience during the writing of this book. He also would like to express his thanks for technical discussions to the members of the antenna research group at the University of Kent, UK.

Professor Steven (Shichang) Gao would like to thank his wife Jun Li and his daughter Karen Yu Gao for their great understanding and support during the period of book writing. He also would like to thank all of his current and former students and research collaborators who contributed to the research work on low‐cost smart antennas. In particular, thanks to Dr Haitao Liu, Dr Long Zhang, Mr Hang Xu, Dr Fan Qin, Mr Mingtao Zhang, Dr Benito Sanz, Professor Ted Parker, Dr Hanyang Wang, Dr Hai Zhou, Professor Xuexia Yang, Professor Yingzeng Yin, Professor Yongchang Jiao, Professor Ying Liu, Associate Professor Jianzhou Li, Professor Gao Wei, Professor Jiadong Xu, Professor Luigi Boccia, and Professor Amendola Giandomenico who made important contributions into the research on low‐cost smart antennas.

Dr Wei Liu would like to thank all former and current members of his research group for their hard work and creativity, and especially those who joined his group at the early stage of his career. In particular, some of ...