Radiowave Propagation: Physics and Applications

CONTENTS

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Definition of Propagation

1.2 Propagation and Systems Design

1.3 Historical Perspective

1.4 The Influence of Signal Frequency and Environment

1.5 Propagation Mechanisms

1.6 Summary

1.7 Sources of Further Information

1.8 Overview of Text

2 Characterization of Propagation Media

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Maxwell's Equations, Boundary Conditions, and Continuity

2.3 Constitutive Relations

2.4 Dielectric Behavior of Materials: Material Polarization

2.5 Material Properties

2.5.1 Simple Media

2.6 Magnetic and Conductive Behavior of Materials

2.6.1 Equivalence of Ohmic and Polarization Losses

References

3 Plane Waves

3.1 Introduction

3.2 D'Alembert's Solution

3.3 Pure Traveling Waves

3.4 Information Transmission

3.5 Sinusoidal Time Dependence in an Ideal Medium

3.6 Plane Waves in Lossy and Dispersive Media

3.7 Phase and Group Velocity

3.8 Wave Polarization

References

4 Antenna and Noise Concepts

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Antenna Concepts

4.3 Basic Parameters of Antennas

4.3.1 Receiving Antennas

4.4 Noise Considerations

4.4.1 Internal Noise

4.4.2 External Noise

References

5 Direct Transmission

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Friis Transmission Formula

5.2.1 Including Losses in the Friis Formula

5.3 Atmospheric Gas Attenuation Effects

5.3.1 Total Attenuation on Horizontal or Vertical Atmospheric Paths

5.3.2 Total Attenuation on Slant Atmospheric Paths

5.3.3 Attenuation at Higher Frequencies and Further Information Sources

5.4 Rain Attenuation

5.4.1 Describing Rain ...