Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Networks

Introduction

Wireless networks are facing growing demand for high capacity, better coverage, support of new applications and broad range of services.

Overview of Beamforming Antennas and Millimeter Wave Communications

In this book, the authors first present an overview of beamforming antennas and millimeter wave communications followed by a discussion on the challenges and issues facing MAC and multi-hop routing in the wireless networks with beamforming antennas.

Protocols Addressing Challenges

Then, they discuss various MAC and routing protocols that are specifically designed to address those issues and exploit the benefits of millimeter wave and beamforming antennas.

Quality of Service Framework

Authors also present a framework to provide Quality of Service (QoS) in contention-based wireless networks with beamforming antennas.

Future Research Topics

Finally, the book is concluded with a discussion on open research topics for future generation WLAN systems.