Название: Radar and RF Front End System Designs for Wireless Systems
Автор: Shilpa Mehta, Rupesh Kumar
Издательство: IGI Global
Год: 2024
Страниц: 377
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 32.0 MB

The escalating demand for advanced communication, sensing, and scanning systems across various applications as well as the urgency to comprehend the complexities of RF Frontend systems is more pronounced than ever. At the heart of this challenge lies the reconfigurability feature, playing a vital role in shaping the current trajectory of wireless technologies. The book Radar and RF Front End System Designs for Wireless Systems delves straight into this pressing issue and examines the relentless pace of innovation spurred by a myriad of configuration and design architectures. While these advancements hold great promise, they also introduce challenges that warrant thorough examination. Within the pages of this publication, a narrative unfolds that transcends theoretical discourse. The book offers a unique opportunity for academic scholars, researchers, and industry professionals to not only understand the intricacies of RF Frontend systems but also to grapple with the practical challenges posed by their rapid evolution. It becomes a guide in navigating this dynamic landscape, providing a deep exploration of the issues at hand and paving the way for informed solutions and breakthroughs.

The Chapter 1 explores the synergy between radar and radio frequency (RF) front-end systems, ushering in a new era of wireless connectivity. It discusses the collaborative potential of radar and RF, emphasizing their role in enhancing security, reducing interference, and boosting adaptability. The chapter covers radar-based spectrum sensing, which enhances network efficiency, particularly in high-frequency scenarios like 5G. Radar and RF enable precise localization for IoT and autonomous vehicles, surpassing the capabilities of GPS. The chapter highlights radar’s contributions to security, threat detection, and reducing signal interference. Radar-assisted RF improves vehicle communication, cooperative driving, and traffic management. In environmental monitoring and disaster management, radar augments RF for early warnings. This integration offers transformative potential, benefiting diverse applications and offering theoretical and practical insights for researchers and engineers. Radar and RF convergence offers a more connected, adaptable, and efficient wireless future.

The timely upgradation in 5G technology standards has already been released by third generation partnership project, which enabled the researchers to refine the research to improve the communication and support in the development. After development of fifth generation technologies, researchers, scientists, and engineers are looking for wide bandwidth which should improve wireless systems and devices to provide better services and experiences. Because of that, beyond 5G, a sixth generation is the next step to be widely used in early 2028 or intensively used around 2030 as per demand. Parameters like gain, bandwidth, efficiency, size of the antenna, technique of fabrication, and other useful quantities can be modified and maximized, and also the cost of fabricating such antennas will be reduced and developed.

In the rapidly evolving wireless communication landscape, antenna technology is indispensable. This chapter provides an in-depth review of recent advancements and trends in antenna technology transforming modern wireless communication systems. The authors delve into vital technological innovations, including massive MIMO, beamforming, metamaterial antennas, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, shedding light on their functions, potential benefits, and implications. The study underscores that the ongoing evolution in antenna technology holds immense potential to revolutionize wireless communication systems, enabling more efficient, high-speed, and sustainable networks. These insights will benefit communication engineers, researchers, and academicians, offering a broad understanding of antenna technology’s current state and future trajectories in wireless communication systems.