The book ‘Radio Engineering and Antennas’ is intended as a ready reference, study guide and a one-stop source for wireless communications professionals, practicing telecommunication engineers, technology professionals, engineering graduates and students.

The guiding principle in writing this book is, to provide a simplified understanding of various concepts in the field of wireless communications, with a special emphasis on their practical application to the wireless communication standards that are practiced currently around the world, such as WiFi, WiMax, GSM, CDMA, and LTE. The general flow of various topics is to begin with a review of the basics, and then move on to current application of wireless technologies through practical examples and illustrations.

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing wireless technologies in recent decades. The market volume of the RFID-related hardware and software exceeded $5 billion in 2009 and is expected to have an exponential growth of $25 billion within a decade. Contrary to other wireless mobile terrestrial and satellite communications that have only a few dedicated sectors of applications, RFID enjoys an infinite number of applications of tracking items, resources movement, supply chain management and logistics, and even monitoring the settlement of an implanted organ in a human body.

This book brings the body of knowledge on compact antennas into a single comprehensive volume. It is designed to meet the needs of electrical engineering and physics students to the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, and those of practicing engineers.

Compact antennas are a subject of growing interest from industry and scientific community to equip wireless communicating objects.
The need for high performance small antennas and RF front ends is the challenge for future and next generation mobile devices.

This text is for the course on antennas offered to the senior/graduate level by most electrical engineering departments. It will also appeal to practicing engineers working on antenna development. The text explains both the basic theory of antennas and its application to practical designs.