Smart Antennas: Adaptive Arrays, Algorithms, and Wireless Position Location

The interdisciplinary field of smart antennas has matured significantly over the past decade. In recent years, it has become clear that this area of work will provide a key technological boon for the wireless communications industry. By early 1999 there will be nearly 300 million wireless subscribers throughout the world, yet there has been relatively little radio spectrum provided to the mobile communications industry since the late 1970's and early 1980's, when cellular telephone systems around the world hosted their very first subscribers. Such rapid consumer growth brings with it radio frequency (RF) interference and spectral crowding, as well as an urgent need to deploy additional base stations in a wide range of environments with minimal test and measurement. Couple this immense growth with the speed and miniaturization of today's digital signal processing devices, and the growing competition created by multiple wireless carriers, and it can be seen that the demand for smart antennas is just around the corner. In this compendium, you will find some of the classical publications and most promising research papers which have and wRappaport, Theodore S. is the author of 'Smart Antennas: Adaptive Arrays, Algorithms, and Wireless Position Location' with ISBN 9780780348004 and ISBN 0780348001.