Smart antennas

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"The text is an excellent resource for researchers and engineers working in electromagnetics and signal processing who deal with performance improvement of adaptive techniques, as well as those who are concerned with the characterization of propagation channels and applications of airborne phased arrays."--BOOK JACKET. What is an Antenna and How it Works -- Historical Overview of Maxwell's Equations -- Review of Maxwell-Heaviside-Hertz Equations -- Faraday's Law -- Generalized Ampere's Law -- Generalized Gauss's Law of Electrostatics -- Generalized Gauss's Law of Magnetostatics -- Equation of Continuity -- Solution of Maxwell's Equations -- Radiation and Reception Properties of Point Source Antennas -- Radiation of Fields from Point Sources -- Far Field in Frequency Domain of a Point Radiator -- Far Field in Time Domain of a Point Radiator -- Reception Properties of a Point Receiver -- Radiation and Reception Properties of Electrically Small Dipole-like Structures -- Radiation Fields From Electrically Small Dipoles in the Frequency Domain -- Radiation Fields from Electrically Small Wire-like Structures in the Time Domain -- Radiation and Reception Properties of Finite-Sized Dipole-like Structures -- Radiation Fields from Wire-like Structures in the Frequency Domain -- Radiation Fields from Wire-like Structures in the Time Domain -- Induced Voltage on a Finite-Sized Receive Wire-like Structure due to a Transient Incident Field -- Transient Responses from Different Antenna Shapes -- Measured Impulse Responses of Some Representative Structures -- Anatomy of an Adaptive Algorithm -- Historical Background -- Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Technique -- Direct Data Domain Least Squares Approaches to Adaptive Processing Based on Single Snapshots of Data -- Direct Data Domain Least Squares Procedures -- Eigenvalue Method