European Transactions on Telecommunications, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, January - February 2001

Communication Networks

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  Enrico Gregori, Riccardo Marcantonio, Francesco Potorti:
  GSn: A new service type for integrated services on the internet. 3-12

Communication Theory

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  Luciano Tomba:
  On the assessment of cochannel interference in wireless systems by the saddle point approximation. 13-18
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  Songsong Sun, Witold A. Krzymien:
  Hybrid ARQ and optimal signal - to - interference ratio assignment for high - quality data transmission in DS - CDMA. 19-29
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  Murat Uysal, Ümit Aygölü, Erdal Panayirci:
  Letter: On the performance of trellis coded M - PSK systems over rician fading channels with phase jitter. 31-35

Optical Communicationss

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  Won Bae Park, Henry L. Owen, Ellen W. Zegura:
  Intact versus fractional switching in SONET/SDH cross - connects. 37-54

Telecommunication Transmissions

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  Spiros N. Livieratos, Panayotis G. Corns:
  Availability and performance of single/multiple site diversity satellite systems under rain fades. 55-65
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  Giuseppe Baruffa, Saverio Cacopardi, Fabrizio Frescura, Gianluca Reali:
  Stochastic channel allocation in non - linear environments. 67-76

Volume 12, Number 2, March - April 2001

Communication Theory

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  Erdal Panayirci, Costas N. Georghiades, Ayesha T. Huq:
  Non - data - aided ML carrier frequency and phase synchronization in OFDM systems. 83-94

Communication Theory Letters

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  Dov Wulich, Lev Goldfeld:
  On the transmission of an analog wideband signal through a narrowband channel. 95-99

Information Processing Letters

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  Gianni Guarco, Monica Visintin, Michele Elia:
  hing reed - solomon codes with 4 - DPSK block detectors. 101-104

Optical Communicationss

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  Leif Aarthun Ims, Dagfinn Myhre, Borgar Tørre Olsen:
  Broadband capacity upgrade strategies in residential areas: An investment cost analysis. 105-113

Communication Theory

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  Giovanni Santella, Franco Mazzenga:
  Performance of a baseband adaptive predistorter in presence of orthogonal multicarrier modulation. 115-125

Signal Processings

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  Alfio Lombardo, Sergio Palazzo, Giovanni Schembra, Giacomo Morabito:
  A markov - based algorithm for the generation of MPEG sequences matching intra - and inter - GoP correlation. 127-142

Signal Processing Letters

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  George K. Karagiannidis, Chris Georgopoulos, Stavros A. Kotsopoulos:
  Outage probability analysis for a nakagami signal in L nakagami interferers. 145-150

Telecommunication Transmissions Letters

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  Raúl E. Díaz Hernández, David Muñoz Rodríguez, Carlos A. Molina Ramírez:
  QoS degradation in cellular systems due to H/O hysteresis. 151-154

Volume 12, Number 3, May - June 2001

Guest Editorials

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  Leonardo Chiariglione, Maurizio Dècina, Francesco G. B. De Natale, Daniele D. Giusto:
  Innovative technologies for video transmission over packet networks. 165-167

Special Issues

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  Stewart T. Worrall, Simon N. Fabri, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Ahmet M. Kondoz:
  Prioritisation of data partitioned MPEG - 4 video over mobile networks. 169-174
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  Lorenzo Favalli:
  Hierarchical transmission of MPEG - 2 sequences in noisy environments. 175-180
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  Andrea Abrardo, Mauro Barni, Andrea Garzelli, Domenico Marotta:
  Error resilient transmission of H.263 video for mobile communications. 181-187
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  Dimitrios Tzovaras, Nikolaos V. Boulgouris, Katerina J. Argyraki, Michael G. Strintzis:
  Rate - distortion optimal fast thresholding for MPEG - 2 image sequence coding. 189-195
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  Marcella Ancis, Daniele D. Giusto, Cristian Perra:
  Error concealment in the transformed domain for DCT - coded picture transmission over Noisy Channels. 197-204
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  Jiwoong Lee, Jae-Kyoon Kim:
  SMART: A rapid layer adaptation protocol for layered video multicast. 205-216
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  Jitae Shin, Jin-Gyeong Kim, JongWon Kim, C.-C. Jay Kuo:
  Dynamic QoS mapping control for streaming video in relative service differentiation networks. 217-229
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  José R. Brunheroto, Richard Chernock, Paolo Dettori, J. Paraszczak, Frank Schaffa, David I. Seidman, X. Dong:
  Synchronized data services over MPEG - 2 digital television broadcast systems. 231-237
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  Glenn L. Cash, M. Reha Civanlar, Barry G. Haskell, David A. Kapilow, Richard V. Kollarits, Baldine B. Paul, Cassandra T. Swain:
  Video Talks: A comprehensive multimedia conferencing system. 239-246
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  Andrea Basso, Socrates Varakliotis, Roberto Castagno, Florin Lohan:
  Transport of MPEG - 4 over IP/RTP. 247-255
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  Ragip Kurceren, James W. Modestino:
  An end - to - end performance comparison methodology for ATM transport of CBR and VBR encoded digital video. 257-269

Volume 12, Number 4, July - August 2001

Articles

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  Ezio Biglieri:
  Farewell of the former editor-in-Chief. 283
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  Achille Pattavina:
  Editor-in-chief's editorial. 283-284

Communication Networks Letters

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  Maurizio Naldi:
  Data transfer statistics in internet dial - up sessions. 285-288

Communication Theory

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  Giulio Colavolpe, Riccardo Raheli:
  The capacity of the noncoherent channel. 289-296

Communication Theory Letters

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  Gabriella Povero, Enrico Vassallo, Monica Visintin:
  Interference susceptibility of selected bandwidth - efficient modulation schemes. 297-302

Mobile Networkss

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  Min-Shiang Hwang, Chii-Hwa Lee:
  Secure access schemes in mobile database systems. 303-310
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  Andrzej Beben, Wojciech Burakowski:
  On improving CBR service playback buffer mechanism in WATM networks. 311-320

Signal Processings

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  Chongni Li Guangruihu:
  The application of modified lapped transform domain median filter to narrow - band interference excision in DSSS systems. 321-325
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  Michele Morelli, Giorgio Matteo Vitetta:
  Feedforward joint phase and timing estimation for MSK - type signals. 327-336

Telecommunication Transmissionss

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  Hikmet Sari, Heidi Steendam, Marc Moeneclaey:
  On the capacity of cellular CDMA and TDMA over nondispersive channels. 337-346

Telecommunication Transmissions Letters

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  Steven D. Blostein, Joubin Karimi:
  Using array signal processing to improve rural area coverage for satellite communications services. 347-352

Books On Telecommunicationss

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  Cheng-Shang Chang:
  Performance guarantees in communication networks. 357-358

Volume 12, Number 5, September - October 2001

Guest Editorials

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  Wolfgang Utschick, Josef A. Nossek:
  Smart antennas. 363-364

Smart Antennas

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  Christopher Brunner, Wolfgang Utschick, Josef A. Nossek:
  Exploiting the short - term and long - term channel properties in space and time: Eigenbeamforming concepts for the BS in WCDMA. 365-378
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  Andreas Jarosch, Dirk Dahlhaus:
  Linear space - time diversity receivers for the downlink of UMTS with WCDMA. 379-391
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  Martin Haardt, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker, Marius Vollmer, Peter Slanina:
  Smart antennas for UTRA TDD. 393-406
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  Hendrik Tröger, Tobias Weber, Michael Meurer, Paul Walter Baier:
  Performance assessment of joint transmission (JT) multi - user downlinks with multi - element transmit antennas. 407-415
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  Holger Boche, Martin Schubert:
  Theoretical and experimental comparison of optimisation criteria for downlink beamforming. 417-426
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  Reiner S. Thomä, Dirk Hampicke, Andreas Richter, Gerd Sommerkorn, Uwe Trautwein:
  MIMO vector channel sounder measurement for smart antenna system evaluation. 427-438
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  Christian Hartmann, Jörg Eberspächer:
  Adaptive radio resource management in F/TDMA cellular networks using smart antennas. 439-452

Volume 12, Number 6, November - December 2001

Communication Theory

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  Dan Raphaeli, Amit Stark:
  Partial imaginary precursor cancelling in DFE for BPSK and GMSK modulations. 461-469
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  Dejan M. Novakovic, Miroslav L. Dukic:
  Multistage multiuser detector for multipath fading channel. 471-478

Information Processings

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  Jean-Pierre Cances, E. J. Hècart, Vahid Meghdadi:
  Turbo equalization applied to multiuser detection in a convolutionally coded asynchronous flat rayleigh fading DS - CDMA System. 479-486
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  Xiao-Hong Peng, Paddy G. Farrell:
  Adaptive soft - decision decoding for array codes. 487-499

Mobile Networkss

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  Michael G. Kazantzakis, Panagiotis Demestichas, Vasiliki Demesticha, Evangelia Tzifa, J. Kazantzakis:
  Paging area planning in future cellular systems. 501-510
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  Jozef Petrek, Volker Sledt:
  A large hierarchical network star - star topology design algorithm. 511-522

Optical Communicationss

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  Ioannis E. Pountourakis:
  An efficient network architecture and protocols for WDM networks. 523-533

Signal Processings

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  G. Guibé, H. T. How, Lajos Hanzo:
  Speech spectral quantizers for wideband speech coding. 535-545