European Transactions on Telecommunications, Volume 7

Volume 7, Number 1, January / February 1996

Guest Editorial

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  Stefano Bregni, Erhard P. Graf:
  Guest editorial. 6-7

Articles

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  Marco Carbonelli, Domenico De Seta, Daniele Perucchini:
  Characterization of timing signals and clocks. 9-24
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  William C. Lindsey, Jeng-Hong Chen:
  Mutual clock synchronization in global digital communication networks. 25-37
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  Ralph Urbansky, Wolfram Sturm:
  Design aspects and analysis of SDH equipment clocks. 39-48
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  Peter E. Sholander, Chris Autry, Henry L. Owen:
  Effects of fixed frequency clock offsets in synchronous digital hierarchy networks. 49-60
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  Arnold L. Welti, Urs P. Bernhard:
  Stability requirements of oscillators used for synchronization loops in communication systems. 61-70

Telecommunication Systems

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  Mirko N. Smiljanic, Miodrag R. Temerinac:
  Application of transition place coding in asynchronous time-division multiplexing. 71-82
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  Silvia De Fina:
  Simultaneous frame and bit synchronization of HF receivers by constant false alarm methods. 83-91

Optical Communications

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  Paola Garrone:
  The adoption of optical systems: An econometric cost model of the european telecommunications carriers. 93-102
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  Paulette Gavignet, Dominique Chiaroni, Francesco Masetti, Jean-Baptiste Jacob:
  Letter: Design and implementation of a fiber delay line optical buffer for multi gigabit photonic switching fabrics. 103-107

Volume 7, Number 2, March / April 1996

Communication Theory

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  Gennaro Fedele:
  N-branch diversity reception of mary DPSK signals in slow and nonselective nakagami fading. 119-123
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  Takahiko Saba, Duk-Kyu Park, Shinsaku Mori:
  Improved performance of fast acquisition PLL synthesizer with N-stage cycle swallower. 125-131
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  Jean-Paul Chaib, Harry Leib:
  Chip shaping and channel coding for CDMA. 133-143
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  Américo M. C. Correia, Augusto A. Albuquerque:
  FH-SSMA with Band-efficient modulations over cellular fading channels. 145-155

Telecommunication Systems

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  Francesco Bartucca, Ezio Biglieri:
  DS-SSMA capacity for a mobile satellite system. 157-164
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  Matthias Pätzold, Ulrich Killat, Yu Shi, Frank Laue:
  A deterministic method for the derivation of a discrete WSSUS multipath fading channel model. 165-175
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  Hisham Abdel-Ghaffar, Subbarayan Pasupathy:
  Suboptimal, partially coherent detection over multipath/multichannel rayleigh fading. 177-192
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  Chokd Trabelsi:
  Letter: Linear adaptive prediction using LMS algorithm over rician fading channels. 193-199
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  Giorgio Taricco:
  Letter: On the capacity of the binary input gaussian and rayleigh fading channels. 201-208

Optical Communications

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  Jean-Christophe Froidure, Emmanuel Jaunart, Patrice Mégret, Michel Lamquin, Michel Blondel:
  Feasability of AM-VSB CATV optical networks using semiconductor laser diodes. 209-214

Correspondence

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  Hikmet Sari, Georges Karam:
  Comments on: "An adaptive DSP predistortion technique for radio systems". 215

Miscellaneous

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  Monica Visintin:
  Response to comments on: An adaptive DSP predistortion technique for radio systems. 216-217

Volume 7, Number 3, May / June 1996

Communication Theory

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  Filippo Giannetti, Marco Luke, Ruggero Reggiannini:
  Continuous-phase modulations for CDMA radio communications: Modem architecture and performance. 225-233
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  Hans-Dieter Lüke:
  Letter: Large families of polynomial phase sequences with low correlation. 235-238
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  Zoran S. Dobrosavljevic, Miroslav L. Dukic:
  Letter: A method of spread spectrum radar polyphase code design by nonlinear programming. 239-242
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  Corneliu Eugen D. Sterian:
  Letter: Opportunistic channel for sending an extra 300 bit/s using a trellis coded modulation scheme which transmits 9.6 kbit/s on telephone lines. 243-244

Communication Systems

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  Giovanni Santella:
  Bit error rate performances of M-QAM orthogonal multicarrier modulation in presence of time-selective multipath fading. 245-253
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  Filippo Giannetti, Marco Luise, Ruggero Reggiannini:
  Performance evaluation of a continuous-phase CDMA modem operating over the 60 GHz mobile radio channel. 255-265
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  Bruno Cornaglia, Marco Spini:
  Letter: New statistical model for burst error distribution. 267-272

Information Processing

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  Kim A. Winick, Shih-Hsuan Yang:
  Upper bounds on the size of error-correcting runlength-limited codes. 273-283

Signal Processing

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  Simon H. Milner, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, Robert A. Cryan:
  Letter: Optimal echo path modelling using chaotic modulated speech. 285-289

Volume 7, Number 4, July / August 1996

Communication Theory

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  Khalil Kanj, Ahmed K. Elhakeem, Tho Le-Ngoc:
  Orthogonal short codes for code division multiple access networks. 297-304

Telecommunication Systems

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  Andrea Baiocchi, Fabrizio Sestini, Francesco Delli Priscoli:
  Effects of user mobility on the capacity of a CDMA cellular network. 305-314
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  Athanasios G. Kanatas, Philip Constantinou:
  Narrowband characterisation of the land mobile satellite channel: A comparison of empirical models. 315-321
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  Flavio Daffara, Ottavio Adami:
  A novel carrier recovery technique for orthogonal multicarrier systems. 323-334

Communication Networks

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  Giuseppe Caire, Carlo Elia, Luca Longo, Roberto Viola:
  A study for interactive TV via satellite. 335-347
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  Giuseppe Bianchi, Riccardo Melen:
  Performance and dimensioning of a hierarchical video storage network for interactive video services. 349-358

Optical Communications

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  Giovanni Cancellieri, Franco Chiaraluce, Ennio Gambi:
  PPM transmission over a photon counting channel: Comparison among various transmission formats. 359-376

Volume 7, Number 5, September / October 1996

Guest Editorial

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  André A. S. Danthine, Paul J. Kühn, Jim Roberts:
  Guest editorial. 383-384

Articles

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  Martin Potts:
  The EXPLOIT testbed. 385-391
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  Thomas Renger, Egil Aarstad, Harald Pettersen, John Kroeze:
  Experimental validation of an ATM traffic control framework in the EXPLOIT testbed. 393-405
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  Laurent Jaussi, Jose-Maria Barcelo, Stéphane Louis, Olga Casals:
  Experimental evaluation of CDV impact on ATM resource management. 407-421
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  Nikolas Mitrou, Nikolaos Lykouropoulos, Vassilis Nellas, Kimon P. Kontovasilis:
  Experimental validation of selected results on ATM statistical multiplexing in the EXPLOIT project. 423-431
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  Arie Doelman:
  The validation and integration of the TRIBUNE test-bed. 433-444
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  Espen Klovning, Olivier Bonaventure:
  Behaviour of XTPX in the European ATM pilot. 445-454
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  Jean-Raymond Louvion, Benoit Piller:
  Performance measurements and traffic characterization on the ATM pilot network. 455-466
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  Eric C. Lin, Gunnar Karlsson:
  On the effects of workstation scheduling on ATM cell output. 467-475

Volume 7, Number 6, November / December 1996

Communication Theory

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  Martin Bossert, Hans Dieterich, Sergo Shavgulidze:
  Generalized concatenation of convolutional codes. 483-492

Telecommunication Systems

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  Rocco Di Girolamo, Tho Le-Ngoc:
  Performance of open loop digital frequency estimation techniques for burst-mode transmission. 493-506
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  Klaus M. Dostert:
  Letter: All digital spread spectrum modems for power line communications. 507-514

Signal Processing

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  Silvana G. Dellepiane, Franco Fontana:
  Supervised fuzzy contextual segmentation of polarimetric SAR images. 515-525

Communication Networks

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  Peter A. Ganos, Michael N. Koukias, George K. Kokkinakis:
  ATM switch with multimedia traffic priority control. 527-540
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  Salvatore Casale, Aurelio La Corte:
  A parallel MAC architecture for a Gigabit/s DQDB MAN suitable for multimedia applications. 541-551
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  Ioannis E. Pountourakis, Efstathios D. Sykas:
  Multichannel multiple queue protocols. 553-563
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  Jean-Baptiste Jacob, Maurizio Casoni, Giorgio Corazza, Carla Raffaelli, Pierre Parmentier:
  System design and evaluation of a large modular photonic ATM switch. 565-573
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  Herwig Bruneel, Sabine Wittevrongel:
  Letter: ATM switches with nonindependent routing. 575-579
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  Necmi Taspinar:
  Letter: A new stop-and-wait type-II hybrid ARQ scheme using rate-compatible convolutional codes. 581-583