Smart Antennas and Electromagnetic Signal Processing in Advanced Wireless Technology

The book addresses the current demand for a scientific approach to advanced wireless technology and its future developments, including the current move from 4G to 5G wireless systems (2020), and the future to 6G wireless systems (2030). It gives a clear and in-depth presentation of both antennas and the adaptive signal processing that makes antennas powerful, maneuverable, and necessary for advanced wireless technology. Moving towards the increasing demand for a scientific approach to smart antennas, the book presents electromagnetic signal processing techniques to both control the antenna beam and to track the moving station, which is required for effective, fast, dynamic beamforming. In addition to presenting new, memory efficient and fast algorithms for smart antennas, another helpful feature of the book is the inclusion of complete listings of MATLABTM codes for powerful techniques such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) beamforming, Analytical Phase Shift technique and the traditional Least Mean Square method, The student, researcher or engineer may readily use these codes to gain confidence in understanding, as well as to develop and deploy powerful, new smart antenna techniques.

The first part of the book presents a comprehensive description and analysis of basic antenna theory, starting from short dipole antennas to array antennas. This section also includes important concepts related to antenna parameters, electromagnetic wave propagation, the Friis equation, the radar equation and wave reflection and transmission through media.

The second part of the book focuses on smart antennas, commencing from a look at traditional approach to beam forming before getting into the details of smart antennas. Complete derivation and description of the techniques for electromagnetic field signal processing techniques for adaptive beam forming are presented. Many new and research ideas are included in this section. A novel method for fast, low memory and accurate, maneuverable single beam generation is presented, as well as other methods for beamforming with fewer elements with a simple method for tracking the mobile antenna and station. In this section, for completeness, the use of antenna signal processing for synthetic aperture techniques for imaging are also presented, specifically the Inverse Synthetic Aperture Imaging technique. Some computer codes are given for the student and researcher to get started with new areas to explore.

The third part of the book presents technological aspects of advanced wireless technology, including Artificial Intelligence driven steerable single beams, the 5G wireless system and the various devices needed to construct the system. While the books' main emphasis is theoretical understanding and design with the basic tools needed to develop powerful computer code for the smart antennas, it also provides the algorithms or codes in a number of important cases to show how the smart antenna computer codes may be developed using electromagnetic signal processing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven beam forming is presented using computationally fast and low-memory demanding technique for AI beam forming is presented with the different excitation functions available. The final chapter outlines certain techniques to develop smart antenna algorithms and computer codes for beginners, researchers, and engineers, and furthermore, to implement a part of what was learnt, including AI techniques.