Propagation Engineering in Wireless Communications

Abdollah Ghasemi is Managing Director, Tarhe Ertebatat Telecom ConsultantsDr. A. Ghasemi was born in 1948 in Tehran. He received BSc degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, MSc degree in radio telecommunications and DBA degree in management. He is the co-founder and CEO of Tarhe Ertebatat Consulting (TEC) company where he manages the planning and design of telecommunications systems including fixed and mobile radio networks, satellite links, radar systems, and fiber optics networks. He had an active role in the basic and detailed design of about 60 projects for radio networks, among more than 100 projects for private and industrial sectors especially in oil and gas industries. He has arranged a number of technical seminars for students and engineers on various topics related to radio systems. Dr. Ghasemi is the author of 3 books in advanced and engineering mathematics and 11 technical books in differentbranches of radio systems. Four of his books have been published by Amir Kabir University of Technology in Iran as reference and textbooks, and two of his books have been published and internationally distributed by Springer.Ali Abedi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cooperating Professor of Computing and Information Sciences atthe University of Maine. He is founding Director of WiSe-Net Lab which is a leading research center in Wireless Sensor Networks.  He has been Visiting Associate Professor at University of Maryland and Guest Researcher at NIST in 2012-13, Adjunct Faculty at Queen’s University in 2004-5 and lecturer at University of Waterloo during his final year of Doctoral studies.Farshid Ghasemi is a Senior Scientist at 4Catalyzer where he works on the commercialization of nano-biophotonic sensors for healthcare and biotechnology industries.He has been a design engineer at TarheErtebatat in 2008, developing site selection software packages for weather surveillance radars for Iran meteorological organization. During his PhD research at Georgia Institute of Technology, he worked on accurate referencing methods for resonance-based integrated sensors in silicon nitride platform.

• Introduction to Radiowaves.- Basic Principles in Radiowave Propagation.- Radiowave Propagation in Troposphere.- Radiowave Propagation in Ionosphere.- Propagation in 3KHz to 30MHz Band.- Terrestrial Mobile Radio Propagation.- Line of Sight Propagation.- Propagation in Guided Media.- Selected Topics in Radiowave Propagation.- Appendix.- Acronyms.- References.- Index.