European Transactions on Telecommunications, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, January 2009

Letters

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  Jordi Perelló, Salvatore Spadaro, Jaume Comellas, Gabriel Junyent:
  Communication Networks A load-based reflection routing protocol with resource pre-allocation for contention resolution in OBS networks. 1-7

Research Articles

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  Peng Tan, Norman C. Beaulieu:
  Communication Theory Analysis of the effects of Nyquist pulse-shaping on the performance of OFDM systems with carrier frequency offset. 9-22
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  Fatma Abdelkefi:
  Information Theory CGU-frame-based representations and their connection with Reed - Solomon and DCT/DST coding schemes. 23-35
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  Morteza Savadi Oskouei, Ali Rostami, Somayeh Makouei:
  Optical Communications A novel fibre design strategy for simultaneously introducing ultra small dispersion and dispersion slope using genetic algorithm. 37-47
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  Cristina López-Bravo, Francisco J. González-Castaño, Miguel Rodelgo-Lacruz, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, Joan García-Haro:
  Optical Communications LBWS: a load-balanced distributed scheduler for WASPNET optical packet switches. 49-64
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  Michael Golanbari, Gary E. Ford, Michael J. Ready:
  Simulation study of a successive interference cancellation receiver for signal monitoring on a CDMA downlink. 65-79

Letters to the Editors

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  Danilo Zanatta-Filho, Renato Rocha Lopes, Rafael Ferrari, Murilo Bellezoni Loiola, Ricardo Suyama, G. C. C. P. Simões, Boris Dortschy:
  Signal Processing Achievable rates of DSL with crosstalk cancellation. 81-86

Research Articles

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  Mohamed Marey, Heidi Steendam:
  Transmission Systems Analysis of the narrowband interference effect on frequency ambiguity resolution for OFDM systems. 87-96
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  Mohamed Marey, Heidi Steendam:
  Transmission Systems ML frequency synchronisation for OFDM systems in the presence of overlapped narrow band transmission systems. 97-105
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  Mário Marques da Silva, Américo M. C. Correia, Rui Dinis:
  Wireless Systems On transmission techniques for multi-antenna W-CDMA systems. 107-121

Volume 20, Number 2, March 2009

Research Articles

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  Mariusz Glabowski, Maciej Stasiak, Piotr Zwierzykowski:
  Communication Networks Modelling of virtual-circuit switching nodes with multicast connections. 123-137
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  Athanasios-Dimitrios Sotiriou, Panagiotis Kalliaras, Nikolas Mitrou:
  Communication Networks Flexible routing in a distributed K-ary tree: the K-Umbrella. 139-157
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  Tiago Gasiba, Wen Xu, Thomas Stockhammer:
  Communication Networks Enhanced system design for download and streaming services using Raptor codes. 159-173

Letters

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  Christoph Hausl:
  Communication Theory Joint network-channel coding for the multiple-access relay channel based on turbo codes. 175-181

Research Articles

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  Dung Ngoc Dao, Chintha Tellambura:
  Information Theory Orthogonality-embedded space-time codes. 183-201
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  Ayda Basyouni, Anjali Agarwal, Ahmed K. Elhakeem:
  Mobile Networks Efficient resource management for packet mode cdma2000. 203-215
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  Sujan Rajbhandari, Zabih Ghassemlooy, N. M. Aldibbiat:
  Optical Communications Slot error rate performance of DH-PIM with symbol retransmission for optical wireless links. 217-225

Letters

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  Wenli Shen, Minjian Zhao, Peiliang Qiu:
  Signal Processing Letter Data aided symbol timing estimation in space-time coding systems with continuous phase modulation. 227-232

Research Articles

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  George N. Bravos, Athanasios G. Kanatas:
  Wireless Systems Integrating power control with routing to satisfy energy and delay constraints in sensor networks. 233-245

Volume 20, Number 3, April 2009

Research Articles

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  Bart De Vleeschauwer, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, Piet Demeester:
  Communication Networks Server placement and path selection for QoS-enabled overlay networks. 247-263
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  Joachim Sachs, Per Magnusson:
  Mobile Networks Assessment of the access selection gain in multi-radio access networks. 265-279

Letters

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  T. J. Zuo, R. Ma, Andy J. Phillips, Slawomir Sujecki:
  Optical Communications Performance analysis of optically preamplified DC-coupled burst mode receivers. 281-286

Research Articles

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  Shu-Hong Lee, Ho-Lung Hung, Yung-Fa Huang, Jyh-Horng Wen:
  Signal Processing Performance analysis of PSO-based parallel interference canceller for MC-CDMA communication systems. 287-297
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  Daifeng Zha:
  Signal Processing Mobile communication array processing based on radial-basis function neural network and fractional lower order statistics. 299-309
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  H. Bellahsene, Jean Michel Rouvaen, M. Djeddi:
  Signal Processing Maximum kurtosis estimation of the optimal filter and convergence step size parameter in blind adaptive TEQ for multicarrier systems. 311-321
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  Liu Yi, Hailin Zhang:
  Transmission Systems Source encoding with efficient transmission of CSI in multiuser MIMO-OFDMA downlink. 323-329
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  Wei-Chiang Wu:
  Wireless Systems Code-aided simplified receiver design in downlink MC-CDMA communication system with transmit diversity. 331-343
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  Bazil Taha Ahmed:
  WCDMA multi-service uplink capacity of highways cross-shaped microcells. 345-353
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  Emanuela Falletti, Fabrizio Sellone:
  Wireless Systems A stochastic multi-antenna matrix channel model for efficient link-level simulations. 355-369

Volume 20, Number 4, June 2009

Research Articles

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  Jun-Da Chen, Fang-Biau Ueng, Shang-Chun Tsai, Jui-Chi Chang, Wei-Chuan Chen:
  Communication Theory Adaptive MDPSK DS/CDMA receivers with performance analysis. 371-387
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  Antonis Economou, Maria Jesus Lopez-Herrero:
  Mobile Networks Performance analysis of a cellular mobile network with retrials and guard channels using waiting and first passage time measures. 389-401
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  Xiaofeng Lu, Zan Li, Jueping Cai:
  Signal ProcessingAn iterative space subchannel allocation algorithm for multiuser MIMO/OFDM systems. 403-412
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  Zhongshan Zhang, Hidetoshi Kayama, Chintha Tellambura:
  Transmission Systems New joint frame synchronisation and carrier frequency offset estimation method for OFDM systems. 413-430
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  David B. Smith, Leif Hanlen:
  Transmission Systems Differential unitary space-time signal designs with improved performance using parametric equivalence. 431-445
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  Bazil Taha Ahmed:
  WCDMA downlink capacity of cigar-shaped microcells for underground metro service. 447-455

Letters

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  Mohammed S. Elmusrati, Naser Tarhuni, Riku Jäntti:
  Wireless Systems Performance analysis of random uniform power allocation for wireless networks in Rayleigh fading channels. 457-462

Volume 20, Number 5, August 2009

Research Articles

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  Marthe Kassouf, Harry Leib:
  Communication Theory Information rates for multi-dimensional modulation over multiple antenna wireless channels. 463-481

Letters

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  Daniela M. Milovic, Mihajlo C. Stefanovic, Dragoljub Pokrajac:
  Communication Theory Stochastic approach for output SINR computation at SC diversity systems with correlated Nakagami-m fading. 482-486
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  Khoa N. Le:
  Communications Theory Performance bounds on BER of OFDMA with pulse shaping and maximal ratio combining diversity. 487-493

Research Articles

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  Eduard Garcia Villegas, Josep L. Ferrer, Elena López-Aguilera, Rafael Vidal, Josep Paradells:
  Mobile Networks Client-driven load balancing through association control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. 494-507

Letters

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  Junjie Yang:
  Optical Communications Packet scheduling algorithms for optical packet switch with shared WDM buffers. 508-512

Research Articles

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  Teresa Araujo, Rui Dinis:
  Transmission Systems A spectrally efficient frequency diversity technique for single-carrier modulations with frequency division multiplexing. 513-521
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  Lin Yang, Emad Alsusa:
  Transmission Systems Optimised spreading code redistribution PAPR reduction technique for MC-CDMA systems. 522-530

Letters

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  HuaMin Chen, Jun-Bo Wang, Ming Chen:
  Transmission Systems Outage performance of distributed antenna systems over shadowed Nakagami-m fading channels. 531-535

Volume 20, Number 6, October 2009

Research Articles

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  Tobias Renk, Holger Jaekel, Clemens Kloeck, Friedrich K. Jondral:
  Communication Theory General expression of outage probability in cooperative networks. 537-548
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  Pasi E. Lassila, Aleksi Penttinen, Jorma T. Virtamo:
  Communication Networks Dimensioning of data networks: a flow-level perspective. 549-563
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  Anicet Okassa-M'foubat, Iyad Dayoub, Jean Michel Rouvaen, Y. Zouine:
  Optical Communications Parallel interference cancellation in DS-CDMA optical networks using bias compensation. 564-571
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  Kai Cui, Mark S. Leeson, Evor L. Hines:
  Performance enhancement of spectral-amplitude coding OCDMA system using novel PPM signalling. 572-579
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  Lutz Rapp:
  Optical Communications Investigation into the significance of failure rate calculations for erbium - doped fiber amplifiers in view of the reliability of communication networks. 580-593
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  Wonsuck Lee, Minkyu Lee, Jim McGowan:
  Signal Processing Enhancing objective evaluation of speech quality algorithm: current efforts, limitations and future directions. 594-603
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  Roman Tzschoppe, Johannes B. Huber:
  Signal Processing Causal discrete-time system approximation of non-bandlimited continuous-time systems by means of discrete prolate spheroidal wave functions. 604-616
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  Engin Masazade, Mehmet Keskinöz:
  Wireless Systems An efficient technique to estimate the realisation bit error rate of multiband OFDM based UWB systems. 617-624

Letter to the Editors

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  Rafal Krenz:
  Wireless Systems On the application of decorrelating receiver to multicode system. 625-630

Volume 20, Number 7, November 2009

Special Issue on the 5th Polish-German Teletraffic Symposium (PGTS 2008) Guest Editorials

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  Paul J. Kühn, Michal Pióro:
  Special issue on teletraffic and network engineering. 631-632

Special Issue Papers

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  Ahmad Rostami, Adam Wolisz, Anja Feldmann:
  Invited Paper Traffic analysis in optical burst switching networks: a trace-based case study. 633-649
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  Vlad Manilici, Andreas Wundsam, Anja Feldmann, Pablo Vidales:
  Invited Paper Potential benefit of flow-based routing in multihomed environments. 650-659
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  Adam Kozakiewicz, Krzysztof Malinowski:
  Network traffic routing using effective bandwidth theory. 660-667
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  Koojana Kuladinithi, Chunlei An, Andreas Timm-Giel, Carmelita Görg:
  Performance evaluation of radio disjoint multipath routing. 668-678
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  Przemyslaw Ignaciuk, Andrzej Bartoszewicz:
  Discrete-time linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal and nonlinear flow control in multi-source connection-oriented communication networks. 679-688
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  Wolfgang Bziuk, Said Zaghloul, Admela Jukan:
  A new framework for characterising the number of handovers in cellular networks. 689-700
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  Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Michal Pióro, Artur Tomaszewski:
  Complexity of resilient network optimisation. 701-709

Volume 20, Number 8, December 2009

Research Articles

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  Mirjana Simic, Predrag V. Pejovic:
  Mobile Networks A comparison of three methods to determine mobile station location in cellular communication systems. 711-721
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  Ramón J. Durán Barroso, Ignacio de Miguel, Noemí Merayo, Patricia Fernández, Rubén M. Lorenzo, Evaristo J. Abril:
  Optical Communications Minimisation of end-to-end delay in reconfigurable WDM networks using genetic algorithms. 722-733
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  Miguel Rodelgo-Lacruz, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, Francisco J. González-Castaño, Joan García-Haro, Cristina López-Bravo, J. Veiga-Gonátn, Felipe J. Gil-Castiñeira, Carla Raffaelli:
  Optical Communications Guaranteeing packet order in IBWR optical packet switches with parallel iterative schedulers. 734-745
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  Sajid Sheikh Muhammad, Tomaz Javornik, Igor Jelovcan, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Erich Leitgeb:
  Optical Communications Comparison of hard-decision and soft-decision channel coded M-ary PPM performance over free space optical links. 746-757
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  Hongxia Zhao, Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson:
  Optical Communications Intersymbol interference in DQPSK fibre-optic systems. 758-769
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  Mohsen Maesoumi, Mohammad Ali Masnadi-Shirazi, Massoud Dousti:
  Signal Processing Computationally efficient joint partial crosstalk cancellation and multi-user power control algorithm in xDSL networks. 770-781
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  Hussein Hijazi, Laurent Ros:
  Transmission Systems Rayleigh time-varying channel complex gains estimation and ICI cancellation in OFDM systems. 782-796