The latest edition of the foundational guide to advanced electromagnetics. In recent years, metasurfaces—ultrathin surfaces capable of taming electromagnetic waves and generating tailored electromagnetic responses—have emerged as a new and exciting area that promises to expand the applications of electromagnetic technology. Balanis’ Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics provides the latest advances and applications in electromagnetic technology, including detailed treatment of metasurfaces, and their potential uses and modifications. The result promises to continue the thorough work of earlier editions and provide a foundational introduction to this critical engineering field. Readers of the third edition of Balanis’ Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics will also find, in addition to the contents of the previous two editions: A new chapter on Metasurfaces and equivalent Artificial Impedance Surfaces Associated MATLAB computer programs Associated multicolor Power Point slides for self-study and lecture use Additional examples and expanded end-of-chapter problems Balanis’ Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics is valuable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, as well as for engineers and scientists associated with electromagnetic technology.

As the growing demand for mobile communications is constantly increasing, the need for better coverage, improved capacity, and higher transmission quality rises. Thus, a more efficient use of the radio spectrum is required. Smart antenna systems are capable of efficiently utilizing the radio spectrum and is a promise for an effective solution to the present wireless systems' problems while achieving reliable and robust high-speed high-data-rate transmission. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader a broad view of the system aspects of smart antennas. In fact, smart antenna systems comprise several critical areas such as individual antenna array design, signal processing algorithms, space-time processing, wireless channel modeling and coding, and network performance. In this book we include an overview of smart antenna concepts, introduce some of the areas that impact smart antennas, and examine the influence of interaction and integration of these areas to Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In addition, the general principles and major benefits of using space-time processing are introduced, especially employing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques.