Customer Reviews

Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication Systems

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This book reviews antenna and propagation theory which is covered well elsewhere in the public output of others, but with a slant from a practitioner in the modern field of mobile and cellnet communications. If you want up-to-date information on antennas for mobiles and their interactions with buildings this may be your book.

This book is bad, the topics are not in depth or well explained. Do not think to buy this book, if you are interested in the field of propagation buy "Mobile Radio Propagation Channel".

Note that this review is for the 1st edition of this book (in case they put this review in the reviews for the new edition).

The books covers a wide range of topics, almost every topic in wireless communications. However it terribly suffers from big weakenesses.

First of all, most of the topics are merely touched, there are no in-depth explanations. It is very sad especially since the book covers a very wide range of topics.

Moreover, there are lots of errors. The mathemetical equations are not easy to understand and lacks the explanations, the typesetting is also strange. Similarly though there are lots of figures which help understanding the concepts, they are not consistent in their look, it seems they have been collected from various places.

I hope if these problems are fixed in upcoming editions it can be a better book especially in wireless communications where besides Rappaport's book not many good alternatives are available.

Initially I wanted to give it a 2.5 but cannot therefore gave it 3.

They send me the book inmediatly and I received it in two days. The experience was terrific.

This book covers the field of Antennas and Propagation consistently with great detail. The content is well structured and offers great information for every reader, regardless of technical background.

The Table of Contents is great, it covers every topic needed for a wireless communications class. But it is deceiving, the topics are not in depth or well explained. This book may be fine for the British with polarisation, but in the US, polarization is the correct spelling. The author may know what his is talking about, but he can't explain worth a darn. Buy a different book, this book has no practical use.