Low-cost Smart Antennas

by Qi Luo (Author), Steven Shichang Gao (Author), Wei Liu (Author), Chao Gu (Author)

An authoritative guide to the latest developments for the design of low-cost smart antennas

Traditional smart antenna systems are costly, consume great amounts of power and are bulky in size. Low-cost Smart Antennas offers a guide to designing smart antenna systems that are low cost, low power, and compact in size and can be applied to satellite communications, radar and mobile communications. The authors — noted experts on the topic — provide introductions to the fundamental concepts of antennas, array antennas and smart antennas. The book fills a gap in the literature by presenting the design techniques of low-cost radio frequency (RF) smart antennas as well as approaches for implementing the hardware of the antenna and the beamforming network (BFN).

A comprehensive and accessible book, Low-cost Smart Antennas not only presents an up-to-date review of the topic but includes illustrative case studies that contain in-depth explorations of the theory and technology of smart antennas. While other resources highlight the software (signal processing algorithms), this book is unique by focusing on the antenna hardware. This important book:

Offers an introduction to the most recent developments of the design of low-cost smart antennas and their applications
Presents a unique book that puts the focus on antenna hardware
Includes a variety of case studies that clearly demonstrate the implementation of current design techniques
Introduces both fundamental theories as well as more advanced topics
Written for students, researchers and antenna engineers, Low-cost Smart Antennas explores the most recent advances in the field with an emphasis on antenna hardware

About the Author
Qi Luo, PhD, is a research fellow at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, UK. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2012. His areas of expertise include phased arrays, smart antennas, reflectarrays, circularly polarized antennas, MIMO and multiband antennas. He has authored and co-authored many papers in international journals and conferences. He is one of the authors of the book on Circularly Polarized Antennas (Wiley-IEEE, 2014).

Steven (Shichang) Gao, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of RF and Microwave Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on smart antennas, wideband/multi-band antennas, MIMO antenna systems and phased arrays. He co-authored and co-edited 2 books including Space Antenna Handbook (Wiley, 2012) and Circularly Polarized Antennas (Wiley-IEEE, 2014), over 300 refereed papers and 4 patents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and Radio Science, and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2014-2016). He is the Director of Post-graduate Research at the University of Kent, UK.

Wei Liu, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK. He received his PhD from University of Southampton, UK. His research is focused on signal processing and its various applications, and in particular array signal processing (beamforming and direction of arrival estimation). He has published more than 250 journal and conference papers and a research monograph titled Wideband Beamforming: Concepts and Techniques (Wiley, 2010). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Access and an editorial board member of Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic Engineering.

Chao Gu, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on smart antennas, reconfigurable antennas and THz antennas. He received his PhD from the University of Kent, UK. He has published several papers in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation on smart antennas and reconfigurable antennas