Introduction to special session on electromagnetics in communications

This paper presents the MELECON 2004 special session conference entitled ´Electromagnetics in Communications´. Six papers are selected as representative examples of the newest research trends in electromagnetics related to communication technologies. The first paper deals with modeling of propagation for mobile communications in urban environment. The second paper is about the rectangular waveguide filled with uniaxial negative permeability meta-materials that can make arbitrary thinner than a half of the wavelength. The third paper presents the design of the multiband miniaturized microstrip antenna. The fourth paper is about spherical antenna arrays, a valuable contribution to the very new field in antenna theory. The fifth paper is based on the modeling the human body as the linear antenna. And the last paper deals with application of radar remote sensing to detection of oil-spills in ocean.