TECHNICAL SESSIONS


 
Wednesday September 9 - Morning

A1: Wireless Local Loop
Chair: Lee Kuoni

Mitigating interference in wireless local loop DS-CDMA systems
Howard Huang and John Smee

Forward link soft-handoff gain of IS-95 CDMA system for wireless local loop networks
Arda Aksu, W. Biagini, and H. Stellakis

ASIC Implementation of a High Efficiency CDMA Receiver for a High Data Rate WLL System
Lan Oppermann and Neil Weste

The Capacity of a Wireless Local Loop Network Based on GSM
Thomas Klingenbrunn and Preben Mogensen

A2: Wideband Local Access
Chair: Pierre Chevillat

Intelligent and Flexible Radio Access/Transmission Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communication Systems
Seiichi Sampei (Invited Paper)

Broadband radio access integrated network (BRAIN) in mm-wave band: indoor wireless LAN prototype
Gang Wu, Y. Hase, and M. Inoue

Development and Evaluation on the Millimeter-wave Indoor Wireless LAN Demonstrators
Akihito KATO, Takeshi MANABE, Toshio IHARA, and Masayuki FUJISE

Frequency-offset invariant Equaliser for Broadband Wireless Networks
A.E.Jones and R.Perry

A3: Wireless ATM I
Chair: C. K. Toh

Current Topics in Wireless & Mobile ATM Networks: QoS Control, IP Support and Legacy Service Integration
Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Invited Paper)

A Pseudo Bayesian ALOHA Algorithm with Mixed Priorities for Wireless ATM
V.C.M. Leung and J-F. Frigon

An experimental architecture for providing QoS guarantees in mobile networks using RSVP
K. M. Sivalingam and Indu Mahadevan

Fair queueing wireless ATM MAC protocols
Rolf Sigle and Thomas Renger

A4: Deployment Tools
Chair: Reinaldo Valenzuela

Muti-cell coverage predictions: a massively parallel approach based on the ParFlow method
B. Chopard and P.Luthi

Site specific narrowband and wideband modeling of indoor radio channel using ray tracing
M. Hassan-Ali and K. Pahlavan

Statistical Optimization of a Slope UTD Model for the Determination of coverage zones
Y.Pousset and R.Vauzelle

Planning indoor wireless communication system
Min-Lu Dai

A5: Network Planning
Chair: Hamid Aghvami

Third Generation Wireless Technologies: Expectation and Realities
Lin-Nan Lee (Inivited Paper)

Optimisation of Micro-Cellular Areas by Minimising the Number of Base Stations
Dragana Kristic and Luis M. Correia

Cost-effective selection of radio access ports in dense wireless systems
Richard Stanley and Allen Levesque

Outage Probability of CDMA-TDD Micro Cells in a CDMA-FDD Environment
H. Haas and G.J.R. Povey

A6: Mobile Services
Chair: Tero Ojanpera

Providing Internet Services to Mobile Phones: A case study with Email
Krishan Sabnani (Invited Paper)

Overview and Capacity of the GPRS
Carles Ferrer and Miquel Oliver

Performance Analysis of a hybrid ARQ for IP packet transmission in fading channels
A.R. Prasad and K. Seki

Battery power sensitive video processing in wireless networks
Prathima Agrawal, J. Chen, K. Sivalingam, P. Ramanathan, and S. Kishore

A7: Third Generation Systems
Chair: Li Fung Chang

Cluster Mobile Switching Center for Third Generation Systems
Thomas LaPorta (Invited Paper)

Authentication Schemes for Third generation Mobile radio Systems
Stefan Putz, Roland Schmitz, and Friedrich Tonsing

Performance analysis of a multilink packet access for next generation wireless cellular systems
Bijan Jabbari, E.H. Dinan, and W. Fuhrmann

The realistic network evolution towards third generation mobile communications
Nigel Lobley

A8: Network Protocols for Wireless Applications
Chair: Victor Bahl

Service Location Protocol for Mobile Users
Charles E. Perkins (Invited Paper)

A Medium Access Protocol for Wireless LANs which supports Isochronous and Asynchronous Traffic
Chris Romans and Jean Tourrilhes

Power efficient MAC protocol for multihop radio networks
Suresh Singh and C.S. Raghavendra

Fast Collision Resolution with SDMA for the DSA++ MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks
Ulrich Vornefeld and Eric Weltersbach


Wednesday September 9 - Afternoon (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

B1: CDMA for Third Generation Networks
Chair: Savo Glisic

Challenges of Higher Speed Wireless Internet Access
Ahmad R S Bahai (Invited Paper)

A capacity comparison of TDMA and CDMA for broadband wireless packet access
Michele Zorzi, S.V. Krishnamurthy, and A.S. Acampora

Downlink OFDM techniques in 3rd generation TDMA based mobile systems
Jonathan P. Castro and E. Hallmann

CDMA Packet Transmission Control in the Third Generation Mobile Communications System
Minami NAGATSUKA, Youshihiro ISHIKAWA, Junichirou HAGIWARA, and Takehiro NAKAMURA

Radio Resource Knapsack Packing for WCDMA Air Interface
Janne Laakso, Riku Jantti, Mika Rinne, and Oscar Salonaho

Link capacity analysis of a wideband CDMA system
Ping Xie and H. Sugimoto

A study on Bi-orthogonal Modulation for W-CDMA Higher Bit Rate Transmission
Hideshi MURAI, Nicolas VOYER, and Tadashi FUJINO

Performance of a common channel packet access in WCDMA
Farooq Khan

B2: Multiuser Receivers
Chair: Jorma Lilleberg

Semi-blind decorrelating multi-user detectors for CDMA: subspace methods
Anders Host-Madsen

Novel iterative multi-user receiver for asynchronous CDMA systems in Rayleigh fading channels
Jorma Lilleberg and Wang Haifeng

Iterative multi-user detection for convolutionally coded asynchronous DS-CDMA
Matthew C. Valenti and B.D. Woerner

Non-coherent multiuser detection for non-orthogonal binary modulation
M.K. Varanasi and Deepak Das

MMSE Multi-user detection for asynchronous dual-rate direct sequence CDMA communications
Marco Lops, S. Buzzi, and A.M.Tulino

Performance evaluation of multi-user detectors for synchronous DS-CDMA systems over multi-path Rayleigh fading
channels with AWGN
Alwyn J. Voorman, Dimitris Koulakiotis, A.Hamid Aghvami, and Ramjee Prasad

Performance Analysis of an Adaptive MLSE Diversity Receiver for Multiuser DS-CDMA in Fading Channel
Muhamad Asvial and Iwao Sasase

Linear space time multi-user receivers for wireless CDMA systems
Howard Huang and C. Papadias

B3: Wireless ATM II
Chair: Dipankar Raychaudhuri

On scheduling of multimedia services in a low-power MAC for wireless ATM networks
K. M. Sivalingam, J.Chen, P. Agrawal, and R. Acharya

Guaranteed QoS access by packet-by-packet generalized processor sharing with channel errors and long propagation
Chia-Sheng Chang and K-C.Chen

Impact of burst errors on framing
Michele Zorzi and Ramesh R. Rao

A new distributed and dynamic call admission policy for mobile wireless networks with QoS guarantee
Kwok-Yee Michael Wong and Si Wu

A Performance Comparison of Media Synchronization Schemes for Collaborative Systems in an Interconnected ATM-Wireless LAN
Yutaka Ishibashi, Shuji Tasaka, and Toshihiko Takeo

Wireless ATM: Handover Issues
Fan Jiang and Timo Kakola

Dual QoS loading algorithms for multicarrier systems offering different CBR services
Louise Hoo, Jose Tellado, and J.M. Cioffi

B4: Challenges in Network Deployment
Chair: Rajamani Ganesh

Traffic Analysis of Partially Overlaid AMPS/IS-136 Systems
R. Ramesh and K. Balachandran.

Analysis of Diversity Performance of Space Diversity and Cross Polarization Diversity for PCS Base Stations
Jay Weitzen

Impact of Cell Size on Dual-Mode CDMA Cellular Networks
R. Ganesh and H. Stellakis

Deployment of multi-layer TDMA cellular network with distributed coverage for traffic capacity enhancement
Patrick Charriere

CDMA Downlink Performance Issues
Rod Walton, Mark Wallace and Steve Howard

Science, Engineering and Art of Cellular Network Deployment
Saleh Faruque

Radio coverage optimization with genetic algorithms
Kai Lieska and Erkki Laitinen

B5: Handoff
Chair: Justin Chuang

Unified Handoff Control Protocol for Dynamic Path Routing in Mobile ATM Networks
Jun Li, D. Raychaudhuri, and R Yates

A General Formula for Handoff Rate in PCS Networks
Yuguang Fang, Imrich Chlamtac, and Yi-Bing Lin

A Handoff Algorithm for Wireless Communication Systems Using Pattern Recognition Techniques
Ravi Narasimhan and Donald C. Cox

Shadow margin, Overlapping and Transceivers per Cell when making Handovers with Hysteresis Margin
Alfonoso Rojas Espinosa and Josep Paradells Aspas

A Stochastic Rerouting Mechanism for Handoff in Wireless ATM Networks
Moonsik Kang and M. Jung

Determining velocity threshold for handoff control in hierarchically structured networks
JangSub Kim, W. Chung, H. Choi, J. Cheong, and S. Park

Handoff protocols in JD-CDMA
Jurgen Mayer, J. Sclee, and T. Weber

Accurate performance analysis of hard handoff algorithms
Venugopal Veeravalli and Rajat Prakash

B6: ASIC Design for Wireless Applications
Chair: Zoran Zvonar

Integrated Circuit Technology for Wireless Communications: An Overview
Babak Daneshrad (Invited Paper)

Testing the double low-IF receiver architecture
Jack Glas and Vito Boccuzzi

Implementation Aspects for Noncoherent Tracking Based on a Time-Discrete Delay-Locked Loop
Henrik Olson and Hannu Tenhunen

Performance of phase locked loop receiver in digital FM systems
Zoran Zvonar and T. Ekvetchavit

New Results on the Effects of Nonlinear Amplifiers on DOQPSK and PI/4-DQPSK Signals
Sven Hischke and Joachim Habermann

Hardware implementation aspects of a detector based on successive interference cancellation in a DS/CDMA system
Thomas Olsson, C.M. jonsson, P. Nilsson, and V. Owall

CCD Matched Filter in Spread Spectrum Communication
Eiji Nishimori, Chikao Kimura, Atsushi Nakagawa, and Kazua Tsubouchi

A Low Complexity Multiuser Detector for Asynchronous CDMA QPSK Systems
E.Del Re

B7: ACTS UMTS
Chair: Jorge Pereira

Perspectives on 3G System Development
Tero Ojanpera (Invited Paper)

CDMA with Multiuser Detection versus Coding
A. Correia, F. Cercas, and A. Rodrigues

Interlayer Resource Management for Hierarchical Cell Structures
G. Noubir

Locally Centralized Dynamic Resource Allocation Algorithm for the UMTS in Manhattan Environment
C. Mihailescu, X. Lagrange, and P. Godlewski

A Concept of Hybrid Random/Dynamic Radio Resource Management
M. Berg

The RAINBOW Concept for the UMTS Access Network
P. Diaz and E. Berruto

A proposal of a new MAC layer for FMA 1
Ramjee Prasad, L.J. M. Carrera, and Jos Nijhof

Multiple slot allocation for voice/data transmission over PRMA++ applied to FRAMES multiple access mode 1
Pilar Diaz and Ramon Ferrus

B8: Geolocation for Wireless Services
Chair: Joseph Pisano

Radio Propagation Modelling for Indoor Geolocation Applications
Prashant Krishnamurthy, K. Pahlavan and J. Beneat

Time of arrival estimation of narrowband TDMA signals for mobile positioning
Havish Koorapaty, S. Fischer, A. Kangas, E. Larsson, and P. Lundqvist

Mobile Phone Location in Dedicated and Idle Modes
M.Alanen and G.Gunnarsson

A selective model to supress NLOS signals in AOA location estimation
Li Xiong

Angular Dependency of Line-of-Sight Building Transmission Loss at 1.8 GHz
Henrik Borjeson and Bernard De Backer

Direction of arrival determination using 3-axis crossed array
Ragnar Eckhoff

System Performance of DS/SS Inter-Vehicle Communication and Ranging System under Rician Fading Channel
Nobuyoshi Fujimoto and Masao Nakagawa

Novel generalized optimal fractional delay filter design for navigational purposes
A.J.R.M. Coenen


Thursday September 10 - Morning (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

C1: Interference Cancellation for CDMA Systems
Chair: Ryuji Kohno

Joint Frequency Offset and Delay Profile Estimation Technique for Nonlinear Co-channel Interference Canceller
Hidekazu Murata and Susumu Yoshida

Experiments on Coherent Multistage Interference Canceller for DS-CDMA Mobile Radio
M. Sawahashi , H. Andoh, K. Higuchi, and F. Adachi

Optimal linear-quadratic statistical processing for interference cancellation in CDMA systems
A.H. Aghvami and M.R. Sheikh-Bahaei

Interference and Capacity in CDMA Hybrid Systems with Hysteresis Margin
Alfonso Rojas Espinosa and Josep Paradells Aspas

Performance Evaluation of CDMA Adaptive Interference Canceller with RAKE Structure Using Developed Testbed in
Multiuser and Multipath Fading Environment
Hironori MIZUGUCHI, Shousei YOSHIDA, and Akihisa USHIROKAWA

Multi-carrier CDMA System with Parallel Interference Cancellation for Multipath Fading Channels
Hyung Kun Park, Eung Bae Kim, Yeon Wwoo Lee, and Kyun Hyon Tchah

Time varying MMSE interference suppression on asynchronous DS/CDMA systems over multipath fading channels
Marco Lops, S. Buzzi, and A.M.Tulino

Blind Multiuser interference Cancellation in Multicarrier CDMA: a Linearly Constrained Constant Modulus Approach
Joaquin Miguez and Luis Castedo

C2: OFDM I
Chair: Brian Woerner

A Maximal Ratio Combining Frequency Diversity ARQ Scheme for OFDM Signals
Tomoaki Kumagai, Masato MiZoguchi, Takeshi Onizawa, Hitoshi Takanashi, and Masahiro Morikura

On the Optimality of Metrics for Coarse Frame Synchronization in OFDM: A Comparison
Stefan H.Muller

Maximum Likelihood Decoding of M-ary orthogonal modulated signals for Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum systems
Armin Dekorsy, Stephan Fischer, and Karl-Dirk Kammeyer

New algorithms for reducing peak to average power in multicarrier systems
Jose Tellado and J.M. Cioffi

Analysis of co-channel interference in multicell OFDM networks
Evaggelos Geraniotis and C-H. Yih

Multicarrier systems with imperfect channel knowledge
Acha Leke and J.M. Cioffi

Performance of Noncoherent Multiple Tone-Frequency Shift Keying Signals in Rayleigh Fading Channels with Diversity
and Diversity Combining
I. Ghareeb and A. Yongacoglu

Generalized analysis of envelope fluctuations in the reduced mobile complexity OFDM scheme
S.C. Gupta and A.I. El-Arabawy

C3: Multimedia Wireless
Chair: Zygmunt Haas

Energy Efficient Protocols for Wireless Systems
Prathima Agrawal (Invited Paper)

Throughput and delay analysis of a novel slotted CDMA MAC protocol for multimedia communication in wireless LANs
Peter E. Omiyi and T. O'Farrell

ARMAP - An energy conserving protocol for wireless multimedia communications
Paramvir Bahl

Performance Analysis of PRMA with Integration of Voice and Buffered Data Users
Tao Wan and Asrar U. Sheikh

A New Design Algorithm for Integrated Digital Communications Systems
D.G. Daut and Wei Ma

TUTMAC: A Medium Access Control Protocol for a New Multimedia Wireless Local Area Network
Mardo Hannikainen, Jarno Knuutila, Ari Letonsaari, Timo Hamalainen, and Jari Jokela, Juha Ala-Laurila, and Jukka Saarinen

Reduced Complexity Maximum Likelihood Estimator for High Speed Wireless Access
Yoshikazu KAKURA, Tomoki OHSAWA, and Kazuhiro OKANOUE

Research on Error-Correcting Scheme of Image Transmission in Fast Fading Mobile Channel
Yaun Dongfeng, Luo Jijun and Wang lei

C4: Indoor and Urban Radio Propagation
Chair: Henry Bertoni

Experimental Analysis of the use of angle of arrival at an adaptive antenna array for location estimation
Ray Owen

Propagation Characteristics for Indoor Broadband Radio Access Networks in the 5 GHz Band
Christian Bergljung and Peter Karlsson

Analysis of 60 GHz Band Indoor Wireless Channels with Channel Configurations
Ji-Hoon Park, Yungsoo Kim, Young-Sik Hur, Kyutae Lim, and Ki-Ho Kim

Characterization of the spatial distribution of RMS delay spreads in indoor LOS wireless environments at 5.2GHz
J.T.Edward McDonnell and T.A. Wilkinson

Indoor Radio Channel Modeling - Bridging from Propagation Details to Simulation
Stefan Mangold, Matthias Lott, Dave Evans, and Rob Fifield

Modelling and Analysis of dominant Propagation Effects in real indoor Environment at 5.2GHz
Frank Layer, Ralf Kattenbach, and Henning Fruchting

Comparation between Two Geometric indoor Propagation Models: Tube-Launching vs.Ray-Launching
Santiago J.Flores, Luis F.Mayorgas, and Francisco A.Jimenez

Propagation Model for Urban Micro-Cellular Systems at the UHF Band
Nuno C.Goncalves and Luis M.Correia

C5: Network Aspects
Chair: Lin-Nan Lee

Microcellular Reuse Pattern in Urban Environment
Michel Daoud Yacoub, A.F. deToledo, P.R.C.Gomez, and P.J.E.Jeszensky

On optimizing the location update costs in the presence of database failures
Zygmunt Haas and Yi-Bing Lin

Prioritised multi-bearer transport in DECT systems
Salvatore Marano, A. Lera, A. Molinaro, and C. Narciso

Design an Performance of Radio Channel Control Method for AWA Prototype
Hijin Sato, Toru Terashima, Tadashi Okada, Toshihiro Manabe, and Hideaki Matsue

Call Admission Control in DCA Wireless Network
Wong Yiu Ming, Jelena Misic, and Samuel T. Chanson

Performance Analysis of Interference Adaptive Dynamic Channel Allocation in Practical TDMA/FDMA Wireless Networks
Sirin Tekinay, Z. Xu, and A.N. Akansu

Dynamic Cell-size Control According to Geographical Mobile Distribution in a DS/CDMA Cellular System
Toshiki Togo, Isamu Yoshii, and Ryuji Kohno

Aspects of Self Organisation in Cellular Networks
A.G.Spilling and A.R.Nix

C6: Wireless Optical Networks
Chair: Mahmoud Naghshineh

Amplifier Linearization for LMDS Application
Mohsen Kavehrad (Invited Paper)

Rate Adaptive Indoor Infrared Wireless Communication Systems Using Punctured Convolutional Codes and Adaptive PPM
Michihito Matsuo, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, and Iwao Sasase

Performance evaluation of L-PPM links using repititive rate coding
Timucin Ozugur, M. Naghshineh, P. Kermani, C.M. Olsen, B. Rezvani, and J.A. Copeland

Performance of a Spread Spectrum Infrared Transmission System under Ambient Light Interference
Timothy O'Farrell and Montep Kiatweerasakul

Comparison of Go-Back-N and selective reject ARQ modes of HDLC over half-duplex and full-duplex IR links and the
effects of window size and processor speed in utilization
Timucin Ozugur, M. Naghshineh, and P. Kermani

A Partial-Response Precoding Scheme for Indoor Wireless Infrared Communication
Hyuncheol Park and John R. Barry

On the Performance of an Optical Decorrelating Receiver for Optical Orthogonal Code-Division Multiple-Access Systems
Youngkwon Cho and Jae Hong Lee

C7: ACTS MBS & W-LAN
Chair: Joergen Bach Andersen

Third Generation: A Unified Architecture to Provide Mobile Multimedia
Jorge M. Pereira (Invited Paper)

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Mobility Management Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks
A. Kaloxylos, G. Alexiou, S. Hadjiefthymiades, and L. Merakos

Performance Evaluation of a High Frequency ATM Wireless Access System Using Directional Antennas
P. Hafezi, M.A. Beach, Y. Sun, and A. Nix

Signaling and IN-based Mobility Management for Wireless ATM Access Systems
N.H. Loukas and L. Merakos

Impact of Shaped Lens on MBS Systems
J. Fernandes and C. Fernandes

Capacity Trade-offs in Mobile Broadband Systems Using Guard Channels for High Mobility Handover
F.J. Velez and L.M. Correia

A DLC Layer Framework for Wireless ATM Networks
N.B. Pronios, I.E. Dravopoulos, and A.I. Andritsou


Thursday September 10 - Afternoon (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

D1: Performance of CDMA Networks
Chair: Mohsen Kavehrad

Perfomance of a Multi carrier DS/CDMA System with Adaptive Antenna Array in a Nakagami Fading Channel
Jin Young Kim and Jae Hong Lee

On the Capacity of Cellular CDMA Systems with Multibeam Antennas
Yoshitaka HARA, Rumiko YONEZAWA, and Isamu CHIBA

Comparing the capacities of FH/SSMA and DS/CDMA networks
Evaggelos Geraniotis and Hesham El-Gamal

Capacity Analysis of DS-CDMA System with Beam Steering-sectorized Antenna over Nakagami Frequency-Selective Fading
Channels
Jeich Mar

Multi-rate and multi-code CDMA using FWT for mobile and personal communications
S.C. Gupta and M.F. Madkour

Further insights in the Bit Error Behaviour of Coded DS-CDMA with various Modulation Techniques
Dirk Nikolai and Karl-Dirk Kammeyer

Performance of ODS-CDMA QPSK in a soft limiting AM/AM non-linearity channel
P.R. Pawlowski

D2: OFDM II
Chair: Arthur Giordano

A Novel low complexity technique to reduce non-linear distortion effects in OFDM systems
D.Dardari, V.Tralli, and A.Vaccari

Coding techniques for Power controlled OFDM
Kenneth G.Paterson

Coarse Frame Synchronisation for OFDM based Wireless Communication Systems
Karsten Bruninghaus and Markus Radimirsch

Compensation of Non-linear Distortion in OFDM Systems Using a New Predistorter
E.J. Powers and I-S. Park

A novel method for blind frequency offset correction in an OFDM system
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, M.A. Visser, and P. Zong

Application of Amplitude Gain Estimation Techniques for Multilevel Modulation in OFDM Systems
B.Y. Prasetyo and A.H. Aghvami

D3: Wireless Data
Chair: Jae Hong Lee

Modelling the Wireless Channel- A Protocol Analysis Perspective
Ramesh Rao (Invited Paper)

Channel segregation for slot assignment in integrated voice data systems
Khaldoun Al Agha and Djamal Zeghlache

Energy-conserving selective repeat ARQ protocols for wireless data networks
Jason Redi, Imrich Chlamtac, and Chiara Petrioli

Performance of a multi-rate CDMA packet data system
Rod Walton and John Ketchum

Optimal forward link power allocation for data transmission in CDMA wireless systems
Witold A. Krzymien, S. Sun, and A. Jalali

Channel Estimation Based on Pilot and DATA Traffic Channels for DS/CDMA Systems
Seughyun Min and Kwang Bok Lee

A Heuristic Algorithm for Channel Allocation of Multi-rate Data in Hybrid TDMA/FDMA Digital Cellular Systems
Wai-Leung Wan and Wing-Shing Wong

Hybrid Channel Assignment for Integrated Voice/Data Traffic in DS-CDMA Networks
Jeong Ho Kim, Tai Sun Kim, Young Woo Kim, and Dan Keun Sung

D4 (a) Propagation Studies I
Chair: Sirin Tekinay

Evaluation of the Multipath characteristics of the impulse radio channel
R. Jean-Marc Cramer, M.Z. Win, and R.A. Scholtz

Theoretical Analysis of Propagation Characteristic in Millimeter Waves Inter-Vehicle Communication System
Tomotaka Wada, Makoto Maeda, Minoru Okada, Katsutoshi Tsukamoto, and Shozo Komaki

Path Loss Predictions in Urban Areas Sprawling Ovver Irregular Terrain
Ramakrishna Janaswamy and Joergen Bach Andersen

Effects of large grid size discretization on coverage prediction using the ParFlow method
Jingming Li, Jean-Frederic Wagen, and Emmanuel Lachat

D4 (b) Modulation, Coding and Equalization I
Chair: Vijay Bhargava

Error Floor of Pulse Amplitude Modulation with Adaptive Sampling Phase in Time-Dispersive Fading Channels
Andreas F.Molisch and Helmut Bolcskei

Pilot Symbol Assisted Modulation Using Encoder Tail Bits
Y. G. Kang

Combined MLSE/symbol based demodulation scheme for fading channels with and without delay spread
Wonjin Sung and In-Kyung Kim

Achieving MAI Cancellation in an Asynchronous DS/CDMA System by Optimum Detection
Naresh R. Patel and Timothy O'Farrell

D5: Power Control
Chair: John Rulnick
 
Enhancing Network Quality using Frequency Hopping, Downlink Power Control and DTX in Live GSM Network
Thomas Toftegaard Nielsen, Jeroen Wigard, Soren Skjarris, Carsten O. Jensen, and J. Elling

Power control in cellular radio systems with down-link multicast traffic
Carl Gustav Lof

SIR-balanced macro power control for CDMA sectorized distributed antenna systems
Halim Yanikomeroglu and Elvino Sousa

Power Control and Sector Antennas for Improved DS/SS Inter-Vehicle Communication
Lachlan B. Michael and Masao Nakagawa

Adaptive closed loop power control with quantized feedback and loop filtering
Evaggelos Geraniotis and H.-J. Su

Performance evaluation of DS/CDMA systems employing adaptive transmission rate under imperfect power control
Elvino Sousa and Bassam Hashem

Selecting the feedback rate for SIR-based power control in wireless TDMA networks with slowly moving terminals
Erik Anderlind

D6: Smart Antennas
Chair: Ahmad Bahai

Forward Link Capacity in Smart Antenna Basestations with Dynamic Slot Allocation
Terence D. Todd, R. Sinha, F. Shad, and V. Kezys

A novel IS-95 CDMA mobile station receiver structure with smart antenna canceller
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, W. Ye, and A.M. Haimovich

Smart antenna testbed for high speed wireless communications
Francois Chin and M. Chia

Modelling and simulating fading channels for systems with smart antennas
Jens Baltersee

The benefits of intelligent antenna arrays in TD-CDMA - a study based on measured channel impulse responses
Martin Weckerle, A. Papathanassiou, and D. Emmer

Signal Processing Improvements for Smart Antenna Signals in IS-95 CDMA
Sofiene Affes and Paul Mermelstein

MAC layer performance with steerable multibeam antenna arrays in wireless communications
Ramesh R. Rao and A. Chockalingam

D7: ACTS SYSTEM ASPECTS
Chair: Pilar Diaz

UMTS: Development of Standards for the Third Generation
Antun Samukic (Invited Paper)

Advanced End-to-End Broadband and Ubiquitous Mobile Satellite Service Demonstration using Ka band technology
G. Losquadro and M. Barbieri

Inter-Segment Handover Algorithm for an Integrated Terrestrial/Satellite-UMTS Environment
N. Efthymiou, Y.F. Hu, A. Properzi, and R.E. Sheriff

The TOMAS Satellite-UMTS Inter-trial Platform
A. Schubert and A. Timm

System Demonstrator for the MOSTRAIN (Mobile Services for High Speed Trains) Project
J. Irvine, D. Robertson, and J. Dunlop

Network Planning Methodology applied to the UTRA Specifications
J.G. Markoulidakis, R. Menolascino, F. Galliano, and M. Pizarroso

A Simple Algorithm to Distribute Optimally a Number of External Base Stations in a Microcellular Environment
Ramon Agusti Comes, Xavier Monfort Querol, and Jordi Perez Romero

A new approach to UMTS requirements in the CTDMA radio interface
V.N.Kurskii, V.V.Proklov, and A.F.Markin


Friday September 11 - Morning (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

E1: CDMA I
Chair: John Orr

Uplink System Performance of High Speed IS-95 CDMA with Mixed Voice and Bursty Data Traffics
Matthew Cheng and Li-Fung Chang

Other cell interference and capacity of power controlled CDMA in wireless fixed access networks
Harris Stellakis, A. Giordino, A. Aksu, and W. Biagini

CDMA Reverse Link Capacity in a Manhattan Like Microcellular System
Dominigo Lara Rodriguez and F.A. Cruz-Perez

Using higher order constellation with minimum mean square error receiver for severe multipath CDMA channel
Laurence B. Milstein and Prasad Shamain

Learning algorithms for blind deconvolution in CDMA downlink
Jyrki Joutensalo and T. Ristaniemi

Approximation of an Integrated CDMA System
M.Y. Watson and T.L. Mitchell

Effects of Downlink Intercell Interference on MC-CDMA System Performance
M.Nunes, J. Santos, A. Rodrigues, J. Punt, H. Nikokaar, and R. Prasad

E2: Modulation, Coding, and Equalization II
Chair: John Proakis

A Simple and Accurate Analysis of Digital Communication Systems with Diversity Reception in Different Fading
Environments
Vijay Bhargava (Invited Paper)

Performance of Real-Time Video Transmission using Error Control over Rayleigh and Rican Fading Channels
Naoto Matoba, Yasushi Kondo, and Toshiaki Tanaka

A Study on Iterative Decoding Techniques Applied to GSM Full-Rate Channels
Frank Jordan and Karl-Dirk Kammeyer

Three Dimensional Regression Polynomial Coding for Video Transmission
Yin-Jing Lan, An-Yi Cen, Jun-Lin Lin, and Kuei-Ann Wen

Adaptive Equalizer Including Frequency-Offset Compensator for Multi--Carrier Communication Systems
Nobuyuki Kataoka and Ryuji Kohno

Reduced Rand Equalization
Erik Lindskog and Claes Tidestav

Scaling Functions and the Optimum Nyquist-Type Signaling Waveform in Digital Communications
Mingyu Liu, Frederic Fairman and Christopher Zarowski

E3: Medium Access Methods I
Chair: Prathima Agrawal

Analysis of a novel feedback scheme to increase throughput in multiple access radio systems
R. O. Lamaire and A. Krishna

Energy efficiency analysis of a multichannel wireless access protocol
Laurence B. Milstein, A. Chockalingam, W. Xu, and M. Zorzi

Capacity of S_ALOHA protocols using a smart antenna at the base station
Faisal Shad and T.D. Todd

Reservation Code Multiple Access with Control Code for Voice Terminal
Osamu Arakawa and Tsugunao Kobayashi

Robust Broadcast: Improving the Reliability of Broadcast Transmissions on CSMA/CA
Jean Tourrilhes

Spatial distribution analysis with capture effect of a mobile s-ALOHA network
David Covarrubias Rosales, S. Ruiz, J. Huguet, and J. Olomos

Spectral efficiency for FDMA and DS-CDMA in cellular systems
G.S. Tombras and P. Varzakas

DPAP: A dynamic polling based access protocol for wireless networks
Sami Alwakeel and M.M. Al-Fawaz

E4: Propagation Studies II
Chair: Seiichi Sampei

Frequency-Domain Simulation of the MM-Wave Multipath fading Radio Channel Applying the Hilbert Transform
Klaus Witrisal, Yong-Ho Kim, and Ramjee Prasad

Outage analysis of cellular systems in an arbitrary lognormal shadowed Rician environment
Q.T. Zhang

An experimental performance comparison between antenna diversity schemes at 1800 MHz
Frank Aanvik, Egil Antonsen, and Magne Pettersen

Coverage prediction for cellular networks from limited signal strength measurements
Manoj Kanagalu, P. Bernardin, and L. Tamil

Propagation studies of Ka-band wavebeams of broadband wireless systems
Sergey A. Ogarev and German A. Andreyev

Propagation measurements and modeling in Jinan City
Dongfeng Yuan and J. Wu

Correlation model for shadow fading in a small urban macro cell
Troels B.Sorensen

Measurements of 28 GHz diffraction loss by building corners
Peter A. Tenerelli and Charles W. Bostian

E5: Traffic Engineering
Chair: Ramesh Rao

Traffic engineering for the wireless LAN access point
K. Pahlavan and A. Zahedi

Performance modeling and analysis of hierarchical wireless communications networks with overflow and take-back traffic
Bijan Jabbari and Yong Zhou

Signalling Traffic Impacts in Cordless-Cellular integrated System
S Ghaheri-Niri and R.Tafazolli

CDMA cell site optimization using a set-covering algorithm
Chang Yu, Sairam Subramanian, and Nikhil Jain

Validation of Models for Traffic from Mobility in Microcellular Mobile Broadband Systems
Fernando J. Velez and Luis M. Correia

Battery consumption and handoff examination of a cellular ad-hoc united communication system for operational mobile robots
Masao Nakagawa and Tomoko Adachi

Cellular Planning Optimisation for Non-Uniform Traffic Distributions
Livio Santos, Lcio S. Ferreira, Valentina Garcia, and Luis M. Correia

Traffic controlled spatial reuse TDMA in multihop radio networks
Jimmy Gronkvist

E6 (a) Satellite Networks
Chair: Vimal Dubey

Maximum Likelihood Acquisition of Time and Frequency Shift in Land Mobile DS-CDMA System
G.Wetzker and F.Jondral

Exact performance analysis of spread spectrum satellite networks
Abdel-Ghani Daraiseh, S. Almadi, and M.A.Rowily

Performance of Multi-Carrier CDMA with Iterative Detection for a Doppler Shift Channel in a LEO Mobile-Satellite
Communications Environment
Mohammad S. Akhter and John Asenstorfer

Propagation impairment caused by aircraft's flying across the earth-satellite link
Honggang Zhang, H. Ando, R. Sato, T. Yoshino, S. Ito, and Y.Nagasawa

E6 (b) TDMA
Chair: Ramon Agusti

Evaluation of techniques for Cochannel Interference cancellation in TDMA communication systems
Nikolaos Georganopoulos and A. Hamid Aghvami

CHOS based channel tracking in cellular TDMA communications
Massimiliano (Max) Martone

CFAR TDMA burst detection schemes for constant modulus signals
In-Kyung Kim and Wonjin Sung

Capacity of TDMA Cellular Systems with Slow Rayleigh Fading Counter-Measures
D.A.J.Pearce, A.G.Burr, and T.C.Tozer

E7: ACTS ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Ramjee Prasad

A Multimedia Communication Architecture for Handheld Devices
J. Meggers, A. Park, A. Fasbender, B. Kreller, and L. Alonso

Equalization of Satellite UMTS Channels using RBF Networks
S. Bouchired, M. Ibnkahla, D. Roviras, and F. Castanie

HTS - technology for UMTS radio basestations
H. Chaloupka and D. Jedamzik

Downlink Calibration Requirements for the TSUNAMI II Adaptive Antenna Testbed
C.M. Simmonds and M.A. Beach

Blind Equalization based on Spatial and temporal Diversity in Block-Coded Modulations
F. Rey, M. Lamarca, and G. Vazquez

Optimal Array Combiner for Sequence Detectors in Mobile Radio Channels
J. Vidal, M.A. Lagunas, A.I. Perez-Neira, and J.R. Fonollosa

High gain antennas in a random environment
Joergen Bach Andersen


Friday September 11 - Afternoon (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)

F1: CDMA II
Chair: Pentti Leppanen

Non-linear power control in multimedia CDMA wireless network
P.R. Larijani, J.W. Chinneck, and R.H. Hafez

A dynamic load sharing algorithm through power control in cellular CDMA
Jon W. Mark and J.X. Qiu

Performance Study of the Adaptive MMSE Maximum Likelihood CDMA Receiver
Predrag B. Rapajic and Deva K. Borah

A Simple and Accurate Analysis Method of SIC Performance using Spatial Cell Modeling in DS/CDMA System
Ki S. Kim and Chang S. Kang

Performance Analysis of a New Channel Estimator for Fast Fading and High Frequency Offset in DS-CDMA/QPSK
Seokjun Ko, KyungHa Lee, and Hyungjin Choi

Iterative decoding and channel estimation of DS/CDMA over slow Rayleigh fading channels
Evaggelos Geraniotis, H. El Gamal, and M.M. Khairy

Modified multi-rate multi-user detection for frequency selective Rayleigh fading CDMA channels
Jinwen Ma and Hongya Ge

On the performance of adaptive MMSE detectors for a MC-CDMA system in fast fading Rayleigh channels
Dimitris N. Kalofonos, M. Stojanovic, and J. Proakis

F2: Modulation, Coding, and Equalization III
Chair: Khaled Ben Letaief

DC Offset Canceller in a Direct Conversion Receiver for QPSK Signal Reception
Hiroshi Yoshida, Hiroshi Tsurumi, and Yasuo Suzuki

Frequency Stabilized Direct GMSK Modulator
David M. Klymyshyn, Surinder Kumar, Abbas Mohammadi

Analysis of 16 QAM over a non-linear channel
George Chrisikos

Successive-Erasure Decoding of RS Codes and Error Detection for ARQ
Frank Poegel and Adolf Finger

MPEG-4: A Flexible Coding Standard for the Emerging Mobile Multimedia Applications
Luis Ducla Soares and Fernando Pereira

A novel and effective solution to Block-based Joint-detection using approximate Cholesky factorization
H.R. Karimi

The Performance of TCM 16-QAM with Equalization, Diversity and Slow Frequency Hopping for Wideband Mobile Communications
J.Wu

F3: Medium Access Methods II
Chair: Kwang Cheng Chen

Guaranteed QoS Wireless Access to Broadband Networks
Kwang-Cheng Chen (Invited Paper)

An efficient media access protocol for delay sensitive bursty data in broadband wireless networks
Jianping Jiang and Ten-Hwang Lai

A new digital sense multiple access (DSMA) protocol for high speed networks
Kin K. Leung, Jin-Meng Ho, and Herman Chien

A low delay algorithm for the multiple access channel with Rayleigh fading
Ido Bettesh and Shlomo Shamai

Two Medium Access Control Schemes for DS-CDMA Personal Communication Networks
Junfeng He and M.T. Liu

Performance analysis of multi-code slotted spread ALOHA (MCSSA) system: finite and infinite population
Simiak Dastangoo, S.Resheff, and B. Vojcic

Iterative Soft Onion Peeling for Multi-Access and Broadcast Channels
Naftali Chayat

F4: Antenna Systems
Chair: Yeheskel BarNess

Adaptive multistage beamforming of cellular signals using cyclic higher order statistics
Massimiliano (Max) Martone

Transmit antenna array techniques for cellular CDMA systems
Francois Chin and Y-C Liang

A Controlled Distributed Antenna System for Increased Capacity in DS-CDMA
Jae-Hyuch Lee, Jae-Ho Roh, Jong-Hyung Kwan, and Chang-Eon Kang

Maximum likelihood multipath channel parameter estimation in CDMA systems using antenna arrays
Chaitali Sengupta, J.R. Cavallaro, and B. Aazhang

Validation of High Resolution Channel Parameter Measurements
Martin Tschudin, Ralf Heddergott, and Pascal Truffer

An Adaptive Array Antenna Using Combined DFT and LMS Algorithms
Kazunori WATANABE, Isamu YOSHII, and Ryuji KOHNO

The Problems of Implementing Adaptive Array Antennas in CDMA Systems
Akihito MORIMOTO, Takaya YAMAZATO, and Akira OGAWA

F5: Resources Management Techniques
Chair: Allen Levesque

Power Control for Wireless Data Based on Utility and Pricing
David Goodman (Invited Paper)

Dynamic Resource Allocation with Interference Avoidance for fixed Wireless Systems
Xiaoxin Qiu and Kapil Chawla

AWA system with autonomous resource assignment
M. Abdul Haleem and R. Valenzuala

G-CBWL: A Dynamic Frequency Allocation Technique Suitable for GSM
Markus Scheibenbogen, Peter Seidenberg, and Marc Peter Althoff

Enhanced dynamic radio resource allocation performance using a gradient descent algorithm
Will A. Egner and V. K .Prabhu

Performance evaluation of adaptive zone configuration system
Ami Kanazawa, N. Ichikawa, H. Harada, N. Tsuzuki, and T. Iwama

Performance of a distributed coverage SFH-TDMA system with mobility management in a high density traffic netowrk
Armelle WAUTIER, Jacques ANTONINE, Jerome BROUET, and Vinod KUMAR

Wireless resources management using virtual class concept
Eun-Ju Ha and J-T Park

F6: Spread Spectrum
Chair: Takis Mathiopoulos

Performance Analysis of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Based on mMFSK Frequency Hopping Modulation
Savo G. Glisic (Invited Paper)

Linear Timing Acquisition Scheme in DS-CDMA Communication System
Cha'o-Ming Chang and Kwang-Cheng Chen

CDMA Downlink Code Acquisition Performance in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels
Matti Latva-Aho

A Predistorter for Nonlinear Distortion in Multi-Code CDMA Systems
Keun-Sik Jin, Yoan Shin, and Sungbin Im

An adaptive filtering PN code acquisition scheme with improved acquisition based capacity in DS/CDMA
Mohamed El-Tarhuni and A.U.H. Sheikh

Innovative coding scheme for spread-spectrum communications
Vladislav Sorokine, F.R. Kschischang, and S. Pasupathy

Near-far Resistant Detection of Symbol and Chip-Timing Error in Asynchronous DS/CDMA Communication System
Seok-Hyun Yoon and Kwang-Seok Hong

Matched Filter Acquisition in Fixed Multipath Channels
Jari Linatti and  Matti Latva-Aho

F7: GSM
Chair: Juha Rapeli

A comparison of GSM receivers for fading multipath channels with adjacent and cochannel interference
Bjorn A. Bjerke, J. Proakis, M.K. Lee, and Z. Zvonar

Analysis of GSM HSCSD Service with Channel Allocation Constraints
Doru Calin and Djamal Zeghlache

Speech Quality Based Performance Evaluation of a Partially Loaded GSM System
Antonio Arregui and John Dunlop

On the Transmission of ATM Traffic in Wide Area Cellular Networks
Raquel Morera and John Dunlop

An analysis of fixed wireless network interconnect costs
Richard Stanley and Samuel Resheff

Interference Analysis of a Total Frequency Hopping GSM Cordless Telephony System
Jurgen DeiBner, Andre Noll Barreto, Ulrich Barth, and Gerhard Fettweis

Bit Error Rate Based Link Adaptation for GSM
J. Pons and J Dunlop

Capacity and Speech Quality aspects using Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR)
Olivier Corbun, Magnus Almgren, and Krister Svanbro

F8 (a): Security and Privacy
Chair: Christof Paar

Security design for a new wireless local area network TUTWLAN
Karri-Tuomas Salli, Timo Hamalainen, Jarno Knuutila, and Jukka Saarinen

A distributed intelligent agent approach for fraud detection in personal communication systems
Mansour Toloo and S. Abu-Hakima

Security system for wireless local area networks
Larry Korba

Security Issues for Wireless ATM Networks
D Patiyoot and S.J.Shepherd

F8 (b) PCS Systems
Chair: Samuel Rescheff

Grouping Cells in PCS Networks
Erdal CAYIRCI and Cem ERSOY

Optimization Approach to Prioritized Transmitter Removal in a Multiservice Cellular PCS
Seong-Lyun Kim

Personal Computing and Communication - A Swedish Strategic Research Program
Bengt-Arne Molin