A Wireless Highway Network Consisting of Geotextile

The development of communications infrastructures has never been as important as it is now. With the increase in cellular phones, the in­ternet, and GPS networks over the last couple decades, the world has entered an information age. While the present networks have per­formed adequately, they each have their limitations: cell towers are ugly, expensive, fragile, and difficult to construct in certain terrain; the cost of laying cable for internet service increases greatly as the net­work branches out and approaches customers' homes; GPS has only limited accuracy, which significantly restricts its applications.
This book offers a unified solution to the problems of these networks by proposing a method of incorporating fabric-based antennas into the geotextile roadbeds used in highway construction to create a wireless network along the nation's highways. Investigation into various design considerations lead to the conclusion that such a net­work is possible. The analysis presents an exciting vision of a future with uninhibited connectivity that will be of interest to both pro­fessionals and academics working in the areas of electromagnetics and wireless networks.