Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications delivers fundamental, end-to-end coverage of millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems, today’s breakthrough frontier for emerging cellular, local area, personal area, and vehicular networks. Authored by four of the field’s pioneers, this definitive text:

• Exlains digital communication fundamentals, including baseband signal and channel models, modulation, equalization, error control coding, and MIMO principles

• Chracterizes mmWave radio wave propagation, including indoor and outdoor channel models and beam combining

• Describes antennas and antenna arrays, including on-chip and in-package antennas, fabrication, and packaging

• Presents analog and baseband circuit design, from mmWave transistors and transceivers to multi-gigabit-per-second, high-fidelity DAC and ADC converters

• Discusses physical layer and higher-layer design, including beam adaptation protocols, relaying, and multimedia transmission, along with 60 GHz standards such as IEEE 802.15.3c, WirelessHD, ECMA-387, IEEE 802.11ad, and WiGig

Thus, Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of this exciting and emerging field of engineering.