3G Wireless Communications and Beyond

Special Issue of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Contact:
Markus Plessel, Senior Mktg. Admin., +1 732 562 3989 Voice, m.plessel@ieee.org

For Release: Immediate

(PISCATAWAY, NJ, 22 Feb. 2001) The past few years have seen world wide standardization activity of third generation (3G) wireless systems. Standards bodies such as the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) have been developing 3G standards. The 3G systems are intended to deliver data rates upto 384 Kbps in outdoor and 2 Mbps for indoor applications. Further, 3G systems are expected to handle data and multi-media applications in addition to voice. The deployment for the 3G systems is expected to occur soon in year 2001. One of the enabling technologies that would make the high data rates possible is advances in signal processing. Both the 3GPP and the 3GPP2 have incorporated a number of advanced signal processing techniques, such as multi-user detection, smart antennas and advanced coding techniques.

Concurrently, much recent work in standardization has focused on non-cellular technologies such as Bluetooth and wireless local area network technologies (e.g., HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11). Such systems are intended to deliver data rates higher than 3G cellular systems under the constraints of limited mobility and indoor operation. These types of technologies and their operating environments present a set of challenges to which advanced signal processing methods are used to address.

The aim of this special issue is to bring researchers working on third generation wireless systems together to present innovative signal processing algorithms for 3G systems and techniques that will be key to 4th generation wireless systems beyond 3G. Prospective papers should be unpublished and present solid research work offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or application point of view.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Radio technologies enabling higher data rates for 3G and beyond
- Receiver algorithms
- Diversity techniques
- Multi-user detection techniques
- Capacity analysis
- Advanced coding techniques
- Applications of space-time coding techniques
- Multi-mode radio architectures

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's web submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable.

Manuscript Due - July 31, 2001
Acceptance Notification - January 31, 2002
Final Manuscript Due - March 15, 2002
Publication Date - Second quarter, 2002

GUEST EDITORS:
Dr. Anand Dabak, Wireless Communications Branch, DSPS R&D Center, Texas Instruments, 12500 TI Boulevard, MS 8632, Dallas, Texas 75243, USA; dabak@ti.com

Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam, Nokia Research Center, 6000 Connection Drive, Irving, Texas 75039, USA; giridhar.mandyam@nokia.com

Dr. Erik Dahlman, Ericsson Research, 164 80 Stockholm, Sweden; erik.dahlman@era.ericsson.se

EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:
Dr. Chin-Hui Lee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA

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