Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications - 9780132172288

Millimeter wave wireless communications is the next breakthrough frontier for wireless networks in the mobile cellular industry, and for emerging wireless local area networks, personal area networks, and vehicular communications. Completely new products, systems, theories, and devices will be created to deliver mobile data rates of many Gigabits per second, thousands of times greater than today’s cellular and WiFi networks. This text is the first comprehensive treatment of all technical elements of millimeter wave wireless communications systems, and provides a unique resource that fuses key concepts from communications, circuits, antennas, propagation, and emerging global standards into one complete, easy-to-read textbook. Written by four leading practitioners in the emerging field of millimeter wave wireless communications, this book allows engineers to quickly become acquainted with the fundamentals needed to implement and explore the untapped potential of the higher spectrum that will provide unprecedented products and applications, never before imagined in the wireless industry. The authors cover technical aspects of millimeter wave communication systems, such as 60 GHz wireless local area networks, and 28, 38 and 72 GHz (E-Band) cellular and backhaul systems, from the transmitter, through the channel, through the antennas, and to receiver. They also present the only extensive treatment of physical layer, link layer, and medium access control layer design issues, including up-to-date standards activities. Since the design of these layers is intrinsically linked to lower layers (e.g., signal propagation, and RF/Analog circuits), the authors provide comprehensive analysis of the fundamental circuits and digital signal processing approaches (including A/D and D/A convertors) for broadband millimeter wave systems. Throughout, Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication Systems presents new, fundamental knowledge and design rules and techniques not yet in standard development, making this an exceptional text for practicing research engineers in both industry and academia.