Wireless Personal Communications

th The paperspresented in this book wereoriginally presented att he 10 Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications, whichw as held ont heVirginia Tech campus June 14 16,2000. Thisyear s Symposium was sponsored byVirginia Tech s M obile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), the Virginia Tech D ivision ofC ontin uing Education, andthe MPRG Industrial Affiliates Program. TheIE EE Virginia Mountain Section and the Virginia Tech Joint Student Chapter ofthe IEEE Communications andVehicular Technology Societies provided technical co sponsorship. Much oft he success ofo ur annual symposium,a s well as the success of MPRG s research and educationprogram, are directlydue to the support of our industrial affiliates. The support that is provided byt he industrial affiliates program allows MPRG to serve thew irelesscommunity through research, education, andoutreach activities. MP RG s industria l affiliates include the following organizations: AnalogD evices, Inc. , AnarenMicrowave, Inc. , theA rmyResearch Office, AT&T Corporation, BAE Systems, BellSouth Cel lular Corporation, Comcast Cellular Communications, Inc. , Da tum, Inc. , Ericsson, Inc. , Grayson Wireless, Hughes Electronics Corporation, ITTIndustries, LGIC, Inc. , Lucent Technologies, Inc. , Motorola, Inc. , Nokia, Inc. , Nortel Networks, Qualcomm, Inc. , Raytheon Systems Company, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Southwestern Bell, Tantivy Communications, Inc. , Tektronix, Inc. , Telcordia Technologies, Texas Instruments, andWavtrace, Inc. In 1999,t he Wireless Symposiumwas expanded to include atutorial course. This activity proved populara nd was continued in 2000.

Frontiers in Propagation.- Statistics of the Temporal Variations in the Wireless Transmission Channel in Indoor Environments.- UHF-radio Propagation Predictor for Temporal Variations in Populated Indoor Environments.- An Improved Approach for Performance Evaluation of the Downlink of DS-CDMA PCS Indoor Systems with Distributed Antennas.- Fast and Enhanced Ray Optical Propagation Modeling for Radio Network Planning in Urban and Indoor Scenarios.- Indoor Propagation Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Ultra-wideband RF Environments.- Propagation Signatures to Characterise Wideband Environments.- Spatial Processing.- Smart Antennas for CDMA Cellular and PCS Networks.- Key techniques realizing smart antenna hardware for microcell communication systems.- Downlink Capacity Enhancement in GSM System Using Multiple Beam Smart Antenna and SWR Implementation.- Generalized Equations for Spatial Correlation for Low to Moderate Angle Spread.- Exploitation of Internode MIMO Channel Diversity in Spatially Distributed Multipoint Communication Networks.- Design of 16-QAM Space-time Codes for Rapid Rayleigh Fading Channels.- Transmit Diversity With More Than Two Antennas.- Reduced Complexity Space-time Optimum Processing.- Network System Design.- Wireless personal communications system planning using combinatorial optimisation.- Frequency Planning and Adjacent Channel Interference in a DSSS Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).- Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Packet Erasure Channels.- Reducing handover probability through mobile positioning.- Multi-user Detection Using the Iteration Algorithm in Fast-fading Channels.- Next Generation and Beyond.- FPGA DSP for Wireless Communication.- Signal Processing Requirements of the TDD Terminal.- Frame Quality-based Versus Eb/No-based Forward Power Control Methods for the cdma2000 Third Generation Standard.- Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial.- Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial.