Recent Advances in Beam-Forming Networks

Call for Papers

This special issue provides an international forum for the researchers working in the antenna systems field to disseminate new ideas and recent advances on beam-forming networks (BFNs), simulations and applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Advances in Blass, Nolen, and Butler matrixes
• Rotman lenses
• Coherently radiating periodic structures
• Innovative beam-forming techniques
• Photonics beam-forming networks
• BFN for focusing systems, lenses, and reflectors
• Holographic antennas and Fresnel zone plates
• Reflectarrays and transmitarrays
• Surface wave excited and leaky wave antennas
• Dielectric waveguides, wideband and multiband feeds, integrated feeds and receivers, and so forth
• Metallo(dielectric) beamformers and discrete lenses
• Purely dielectric lenses (lens antennas and substrate lenses)
• (Shaped) constrained lenses
• Flat lenses

The applications of these systems are highly linked with the current needs of communication and remote sensing, thus the next applications could be welcome: communication systems based on smart antennas and MIMO; broadband high data-rate indoor (smart home, gigabit offices) and outdoor wireless communication systems; wireless personal area networks (WPANs), intelligent transport systems (ITSs), namely, short range/long range/multifunction automotive radars, road traffic and transport telematics for communications between vehicles, as well as between vehicles and infrastructures; satellite communications systems for mobile and fixed satellite services (consumer and professional uses, communications with moving platforms like high-speed trains, Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), etc.); communications with high-altitude platforms (HAPs); passive and active security and surveillance systems in public areas (airports, stations, etc.); active and passive RF instruments for remote sensing and earth observation (e.g., real aperture and synthetic radars, radiometers, etc.); electronic surveillance and countermeasure systems; ultrawide band systems. These and other applications could take advantage of the methodologies proposed here.

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Marco Antonio Panduro-Mendoza, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Reynosa Tamaulipas Campus, 88779 Reynosa, TAMPS, Mexico

Guest Editors

• Carlos del Rio Bocio, Antennas Group, Public University of Navarre, Arrosadia Campus, 31006 Pamplona, Spain
• Shiwen Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
• Piero Angeletti, European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands