Technical Sessions

Session 61: Wireless Access to Multimedia Services II

Session Chair: Richard Nowak, Nortel, Canada

61-1 Intelligent Control of Mobile Multimedia Systems

Dr. Brian G. Marchent, Fujitsu Europe Telecom R&D Centre, Middlesex, UK

 

61-2 Supporting mobility in broadband wireless networks

Antonio Iera, D.I.M.E.T. - University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Salvatore Marano, Antonella Molinaro, D.E.I.S. - University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy

 

61-3 Millimeter-Wave Broadband Wireless Access System with Tracking Technology of Moving Targets

Yoji Okada, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd, Osaka, Japan
Hiroyuki Tsuji, M.P.T., Koganei, Japan
Hajime Kagiwada, Akira Sano, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

 

61-4 Services in mobile broadband systems

B.H.Yae, S.C.Lee, H.S.Kim, ETRI / Hankiik Aviation University, Taejon, Korea

 

61-5 Wireless Channel Access for Multimedia Personal Communication Systems

Mounir Hamdi, Lixin Wang, Felix L. K. Lung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

 

Session 62: OFDM Techniques II

Session Chair: L.J. Cimini, Jr., AT&T Research, USA

62-1 OFDM Schemes with Non-Overlapping Time Waveforms

Slimane Ben Slimane, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

 

62-2 Reducing the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio of OFDM

Richard van Nee, Arnout de Wild, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

 

62-3 Pilot Assisted Synchronization for Wireless OFDM Systems over Fast Time Varying Fading Channels

Samir Kapoor, D. J. Marchok, Tellabs Research Center, Mishawaka,
Y. F. Huang, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

 

62-4 Efficient Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Peak Power Limiting Codes for OFDM

Alex J. Grant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Richard van Nee, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Nieuwgein, The Netherlands

 

Session 63: Vehicle Control and Collision Avoidance

Session Chair: Hugh Reekie, Maxwell Communications, Canada

63-1 Vehicular Stepped-FM Radar for Collision Avoidance

Akihiro Kajiwara, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan

 

63-2 An Electrically Assisted, Hybrid Vehicle

Scott Aylor, Michael Parten, Tim Maxwell, Jesse Jones, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

 

63-3 Intermediate Block Signalling (IBS) - A Cost Effective Method to Increase Throughput of Railways

Raja Goundan, Ashok Jhun Jhunwala, Indian Railways, Secunderabad, India

 

63-4 Architecture of the Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) Protocol

Christian Cseh, University of Technology Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany

 

Session 64: Indoor Propagation

Session Chair: Javier Fonollosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

64-1 Measurement of rotation effects in an indoor infrared channel

M. R. Pakravan, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
H. Hashemi, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
M. Kavehrad, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

 

64-2 Measured and Predicted Correlation Between Local Average Power and Small Scale Fading in Indoor Wireless Communication Channels

Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Dmitry Chizhik, Jonathan Ling, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, USA

 

64-3 Estimation of propagation path visibility for indoor wireless LAN systems under shadowing conditions by human bodies

Katsuyoshi Sato, Takeshi Manabe, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

 

64-4 Investigation of Short Term Statistical Distributions for Path Amplitudes and Phases in Indoor Environment

Ralf Kattenbach, Torsten Englert, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

 

Session 65: Radio System Design

Session Chair: Hang Gu Bahk, ETRI, Korea

65-1 A Comparison of Macrodiversity and gross rate link adaptation in an adaptive TDMA system

J. Irvine, J. Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

 

65-2 Stability Analysis of the Contention Mechanism of the PRMA++ Protocol

Antonio Arregui, John Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

 

65-3 Hysteresis effect on dropped call probability

Raul Enrique Diaz, David Munoz Rodriguez, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
Carlos Molina, Nortel, Richardson, USA

 

65-4 Finding Better Call Admission Policies in Wireless Networks

Chi-jui Ho, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Chin-Tau Lea, The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

 

65-5 Multibeam Cellular Communication Systems with Dynamic Channel Assignment

Jung-Lin Pan, Petar M. Djuric, Stephen S. Rappaport, State University of New York @ Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

 

Session 66: Transmission Technology and Equipment

Session Chair: Jim Cavers, Simon Fraser University, Canada

66-1 Compensation of Nonlinear Distortion Using a Predistorter Based on the Fixed Point Approach in OFDM Systems

Man-Che Kim, Yoan Shin, Sungbin Im, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

 

66-2 A Broadband Linear Power Amplifier for Software Radio Applications

Kevin Morris, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Peter Kenington, Wireless Systems International Ltd, Bristol, UK

 

66-3 Impact of Wideband ADC's on the Performance of Multi-carrier Radio Receivers

Kambiz C. Zangi, Ericsson Inc., Raleigh, USA

 

66-4 Nonlinear Amplification of CDMA Waveforms: An Analysis of Spectral Regrowth and Code Domain Intermodulation

R. Neil Braithwaite, Nortel, Calgary, Canada

 

66-5 Fast Adaptive Feed-Forward Linearizer for a Wide-Band Power Amplifier

Jiunn-Tsair Chen, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Huan-Shang Tsai, Young-Kai Chen, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA

 

66-6 Non-Coherent Real-Time DSP Implementation of a Parallel Partial Interference Cancellation Multiuser Receiver for DS-CDMA

Neiyer S. Correal, Brian D. Woerner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

 

Session 67: CDMA Systems

Session Chair: Shumin Cao, MPT, China

67-1 Impact of Handoff Boundaries on CDMA network performance

A. Jalali, Nortel, Richardson, USA

 

67-2 A New Time-Based Outage Criterion for the Forward and Reverse Links of DS-CDMA Cellular Systems

Gerald P. Labedz, Robert T. Love, Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group, Arlington Heights, USA

 

67-3 Rate Determination Algorithm in IS-95 Forward Traffic Channel

Roger Shu-Kwan Cheng, Sheung Chi Ng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

 

67-4 Efficient Packetized CDMA System for a High Mobility Urban Environment

Ian Oppermann, Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

 

67-5 Analysis of Wireless Multimedia DS/CDMA System with Hybrid ARQ, Diversity and Power Control

Y. F. Melanie Wong, K. Ben Letaief, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China

 

Session 68: Frequency Hopping Techniques

Session Chair: Abbas Yongacoglu, Ottawa University, Canada

68-1 Spectral Efficient Modulation Schemes in a SFH-TDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM) Wireless Communication System to Support Advanced Services

Ralf Bohnke, Telecommunication Research & Development Europe, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuyuki Sakoda, Wireless Technology Lab. Median Processing Labs, Tokyo, Japan

 

68-2 A theoretical study of the performance improvement in GSM networks due to slow frequency hopping

A. Sathyendran, BellSouth New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
P J Smith, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

 

68-3 Adaptive Frequency Hopping for TDMA/CDMA with Joint Detection

Americo M. C. Correia, Antonio C.B. Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

 

68-4 Performance Analysis of an FH/SSMA Network with Adaptive Antenna Array and Packet Combining

Jin Young Kim, Jae Hong Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

Session 69: OFDM Techniques III

Session Chair: Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Sony Corporation, Japan

69-1 A Synchronous Coherent OFDM Air Interface Concept for High Data Rate Cellular Systems

Kevin L. Baum, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, USA

 

69-2 Investigation of Single Frequency Networks for Digital Mobile Radio Systems based on COFDM

Ulrich Liebenow, Gerd Zimmermann, Technologiezentrum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

 

69-3 Space-time coded OFDM for High Date-Rate wireless Communications over Wideband Channels

Dakshi Agrawal, Vahid Tarokh, Ayman Naguib, Nambi Seshadri, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, USA

 

69-4 Multicarrier modulation for advanced messaging systems

Peter Okrah, Gary Stuck, Michael Newhouse, Motorola, Tempe, USA

 

69-5 Impact of Adjacent Channel Interference on the Performance of OFDM Systems over Frequency Selective Fading Channels

M. El-Tanany, Yiyan Wu, Laszlo Hazy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

 

Session 70: Equalization Techniques II

Session Chair: Fuyun Ling, Qualcomm, USA

70-1 Near-Optimum Iterative Estimation of Dispersive Multipath Channels

Carlos A. Montemayor, Paul G. Flikkema, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

 

70-2 A Novel Fractionally-Spaced MLSE Receiver and Channel Tracking with Side Information

Karl J. Molnar, Gregory E. Bottomley, R. Ramesh, Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, USA

 

70-3 Joint Coding and Decision Feedback Equalization for Broadband Wireless Channels

Sirikat Ariyavisitakul, Geoffrey Ye Li, AT&T Laboratories, Red Bank, USA

 

70-4 Iterative Equalization and Decoding for the GSM-System

Gerhard Bauch, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Volker Franz, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

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