Meet the editors

Jafar Ramadhan Mohammed received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Mosul University, Mosul, IRAQ in 1998, and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Digital Communication Engineering from Panjab University, INDIA in 2009. He worked as senior lecturer at the Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Malaysia Technical University Melaka (UTeM), Melaka, Malaysia in 2011

and was a visiting researcher at Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Vice Chancellor for Scientific Affairs at Ninevah University, Mosul, IRAQ. He has authored more than 45 scientific articles in international peer-refereed journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests are in the area of adaptive signal processing, antenna array synthesis, array pattern optimization, and interference suppression. In 2011, he was listed in the Marquis Who's Who Professionals in the World for Science and Engineering field (Edition 28). In 2018, he was selected for the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award.

Khalil Sayidmarie received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Mosul University, Iraq, in 1976, and his Ph.D. degree from Sheffield University, U.K. in 1981. He then joined the College of Engineering/Mosul University in 1983 and was promoted to full Professor in 1992. He worked as the head of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Mosul for 9 years, and was the manager of the engi-

neering consulting bureau, University of Mosul for 5 years. He was the acting dean of the College of Electronic Engineering at Mosul University from 2002 to 2003. Sayidmarie worked as a Professor of communication engineering at the College of Engineering, University of Amman, /Jordan from 2006 to 2009, where he was the dean of the Faculty of Engineering for the academic year 2008-2009. Sayidmarie has been Professor of communication engineering at the College of Electronic Engineering, Ninevah University since 2002. Sayidmarie's research interests cover antennas, propagation, and microwaves, and he has published more than 120 papers and has supervised 38 Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses.

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 87**

*by Vincenzo Inzillo, Floriano De Rango, Luigi Zampogna and Alfonso A. Quintana*

Design and Optimization of Photonics-Based Beamforming Networks for

*by Mikhail E. Belkin, Dmitriy Fofanov, Vladislav Golovin,Yuriy Tyschuk* 

Smart Antenna Systems Model Simulation Design for 5G Wireless

Introductory Chapter: Introduction to Array Pattern Optimization

Sidelobe Nulling by Optimizing Selected Elements in the Linear

*by Khalil H. Sayidmarie and Jafar Ramadhan Mohammed*

*by Jafar Ramadhan Mohammed and Khalil H. Sayidmarie*

Array Pattern Synthesis for ETC Applications

Ultra-Wide mmWave-Band Antenna Arrays

Array Pattern Based on Integrated Antenna

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*by Daniele Inserra and Guangjun Wen*

and Planar Arrays

Contents

*and Alexander S. Sigov*

Network Systems
