Prentice-Hall has just released an exciting new comprehensive text on the relatively unexplored field of Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications. MmWave is a breakthrough frontier for emerging wireless mobile cellular networks, wireless local area networks, personal area networks, and vehicular communications. In the near future, mmWave applications, devices, and networks will change our world.

Dr. Ali Sadri, Senior Director of Standards and Advanced Technologies at Intel Corporation,  praises this new text:“This is a great book on mmWave systems that covers many aspects of the technology targeted for beginners all the way to the advanced users. The authors are some of the most credible scholars I know of who are well respected by the industry. I highly recommend studying this book in detail.” Additional accolades have been received by leading academic and industry practitioners.

In Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, four of the field’s pioneers,  NYU WIRELESS director Theodore S. Rappaport of NYU, WNCG director Robert W. Heath of UT Austin, and their former students Robert C. Daniels, and James N. Murdock, draw on their vast experience to empower engineers at all levels to succeed with mmWave communications. This new book delivers fundamental, end-to-end coverage of all aspects of future mmWave wireless communications systems.  This exciting new textbook is well suited for both industry and graduate course usage, as it covers all aspects of new multi-Gigabit per second 60 GHz and emerging mmWave cellular products and applications, with complete treatment of mmWave communication theory, signal propagation, analog and digital circuit design, mmWave antenna designs, current and emerging wireless standards and medium access protocol considerations.

While relatively unexplored, the vast mmWave spectrum and the concepts treated in this new book will become a necessity as the number of smartphones, mobile devices, and WiFi users continue to skyrocket.  As mmWave wireless communications moves out of its infancy, this book is sure to be the key reference for all engineers of the future.

This book is particularly timely, as governments around the world begin the exploration of regulating millimeter wave spectrum. For example, just last week, Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), acknowledged the need to understand the vast potential of 5G millimeter wave wireless access above 24 GHz. The FCC may be soliciting comments in a Notice of Inquiry on October 17, 2014 (See: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/meeting-mobile-moment)