The Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communication

Index

A

• Aircom International Limited 177
• Ampere’s law 64
• Analysis of Wire Antennas and Scatterers (AWAS) 81, 86–88, 93, 98, 162, 192, 205–206, 209, 214, 215
• antenna array
  • electric field, integral of 96
  • far field pattern 95
  • half wave dipole in free space 95
  • interference pattern 98
  • Maxwellian context 95
  • MIMO 100
  • mobile communication environment 96
  • radiation pattern 97
  • signal‐of‐interest (SOI) 99
  • transmitting antennas 99
  • vector antenna problem 99
  • vector electromagnetic scattering problem 99
• antennas 265
  • biconical antennas 292–299
  • century bandwidth bi‐blade antenna 306–310
  • cone‐blade antenna 310–313
  • dipole antennas 281–292
  • dipole structures, transient responses from 268–276
  • frequency domain 267–268
  • impulse radiating antenna 313–315
  • monocycle input pulse 279, 280
  • performance of 266
  • radiation efficiency 279
  • simple C‐R circuit 266–267
  • TEM horn antenna 299–305
  • time domain analysis 266
  • travelling wave 276–279
  • ultra wideband input pulse 279–281
  • ultra wideband signal transmission 315–338
• automatic gain control (AGC) 124

B

• baud rate 328, 329
• Bessel function 236, 238
• bi‐blade century bandwidth antenna 306–310
• biconical antennas
  • with end caps 294, 296, 297
  • frequency spectrum 294
  • monocycle pulse reception 294, 295, 298
  • radiated field from 294, 295, 297, 298
  • radiation pattern 292
  • resistive loading profile 297
  • structure 293
• Brewster’s angle 228–230
• Brewster’s phenomenon 240
• Brewster–Zenneck wave 228
• broadband matching effect, in dipole antennas 355
  • antenna configuration 357, ...