Millimeter Wave Communication (Paperback)

Paperback. For most of the history of radio, the frequencies above 30 GHz were regarded as a curiosity: interesting to physicists and radio astronomers, useful for a few military and scientific purposes, but far too lossy, too expensive and too difficult to tame for mass-market communication. That view has been overturned within a single decade. Millimeter wave links now carry 5G traffic in cities around the world, connect virtual-reality headsets to computers, backhaul small cells across rooftops, and steer the radars that keep modern cars in their lanes. The frequencies that once seemed hostile have become one of the most active frontiers of electrical engineering, and the move toward sub-terahertz frequencies for sixth-generation (6G) systems promises that the frontier will continue to advance.This book is written for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in electronics and communication engineering, and for practising engineers and researchers who need a single, coherent account of the subject. Millimeter wave communication is inherently interdisciplinary. A successful system designer must understand electromagnetic propagation and channel modeling, antenna arrays and beamforming, radio-frequency integrated circuits, signal processing for waveforms and MIMO, network protocols and standards, and the practicalities of measurement and testing. Most existing texts treat only one or two of these areas in depth. My aim has been to connect them, so that the reader understands not only how each building block works but also why it is designed the way it is, and how it interacts with the rest of the system.The book is organized in fourteen chapters that progress from physics to systems. Chapters 1 to 3 establish the foundations: motivation and spectrum, propagation mechanisms, and channel models. Chapters 4 to 6 address antennas, beamforming architectures and beam management, the techniques that turn high path loss into high-gain directional links. Chapter 7 descends to the circuit level, with carefully drawn schematics of amplifiers, mixers, oscillators and passive networks. Chapters 8 and 9 treat waveforms, hardware impairments, MIMO and channel estimation. Chapter 10 reviews the IEEE and 3GPP standards, and Chapter 11 analyses the performance of mmWave networks using stochastic geometry. Chapter 12 introduces emerging topics, including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication, sub-terahertz systems and machine learning. Chapter 13 presents applications and case studies, and Chapter 14 brings everything together in link-budget design, over-the-air testing and a set of design projects. Two appendices collect constants, formulas and a compact Python toolbox, and a bibliography guides further reading.Throughout the book I have emphasised derivations from first principles, so that formulas are understood rather than memorised. Every chapter contains worked examples with complete numerical solutions, and most chapters include Python programs that reproduce the figures or implement the algorithms discussed. All of the programs use only NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib and can be run on any personal computer. I strongly encourage readers to run them, change the parameters, and observe the consequences; there is no better way to develop engineering intuition. The end-of-chapter problems range from routine exercises to open-ended design tasks, and the projects in several chapters are suitable for laboratory courses or semester assignments.Instructors can use the book in several ways. A one-semester course on millimeter wave systems might cover Chapters 1 to 6, 8, 10 and 14. A course with a circuits emphasis would add Chapter 7 and parts of Chapter 4, while a signal-processing course would emphasise Chapters 5, 6, 8 and 9. Chapters 11 to 13 are suitable for advanced seminars and for Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…