Physical Principles of Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

The Author

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1   An Introduction to Modern Wireless Communications

1.1   A Brief History of Wireless Communications

1.1.1   Faraday, Maxwell, and Hertz: The Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves

1.1.2   Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of Wireless Communications

1.1.3   Developments in the Vacuum Electronics Era (1906 to 1947)

1.1.4   The Modern Era in Wireless Communications (1947 to the Present)

1.2   Basic Concepts

1.2.1   Information Capacity of a Communication Channel

1.2.2   Antenna Fundamentals

1.2.3   The Basic Layout of a Wireless ...