European Transactions on Telecommunications, Volume 5

Volume 5, Number 1, January / February 1994

Editorials

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  Erich Lutz, Franco Davoli:
  Guest editorial. 7-9

Articles

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  Michael Paterakis, Allan C. Cleary:
  On the voice-data integration in third generation wireless access communication networks. 11-18
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  Matan Seri, Moshe Sidi:
  Splitting algorithms in channels with markovian capture. 19-26
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  Giovanni Emanuele Corazza, Vittorio Degli-Esposti:
  Code acquisition in DS-SSMA systems in the presence of multiple access interference and data modulation. 27-38
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  Bernd Steiner, Peter Jung:
  Optimum and suboptimum channel estimation for the uplink of CDMA mobile radio systems with joint detection. 39-50
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  Mario Frullone, Guido Riva, Paolo Grazioso, Claudia Carciofi:
  Packet reservation multiple access in cellular environments. 51-58
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  Carlo Caini, Gianni Immovilli, Maria Luisa Merani:
  Outage probability in FDMA/TDMA mobile communication networks. 59-68
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  Michele Zorzi, Silvano Pupolin:
  Outage probability in mobile packet radio networks with interferers distributed along a straight line. 69-76

Communication Theories

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  Gabriele Falciasecca, Carlo Caini, Guido Riva, Mario Frullone:
  General approach for the comparison of spectrum efficiency of digital mobile radio systems. 77-84
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  Giovanni Cancellieri, Franco Chiaraluce, Giovanni Guidotti:
  Letter: Analysis of concatenated reed-solomon encoding schemes with full and partial interleaving for short data messages. 85-92

Communication Networks

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  Fulvio Babich:
  Home network requirements. The ESPRIT HS Proposal. 93-106
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  Izhak Rubin, K. David Lin:
  Input rate flow control for high speed communications networks using burst level feedback control. 107-123

Volume 5, Number 2, March / April 1994

Editorials

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  Paul J. Kühn, Ralf Lehnert, Giorgio Gallassi:
  Guest editorial. 134-138

Articles

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  John Paul Cosmas, Guido H. Petit, Ralf Lehnert, Chris Blondia, Kimon Kontovassilis, Olga Casals, Thomas Theimer:
  A review of voice, data and video traffic models for ATM. 139-154
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  Hilde Hemmer:
  Evaluation of UPC functions for peak cell rate enforcement. 155-160
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  Nikolas Mitrou, Kimon P. Kontovasilis, Hans Kröner, Villy Back Iversen:
  Statistical multiplexing, bandwidth allocation strategies and connection admission control in ATM networks. 161-176
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  Reinhard Habermann:
  Simulation analysis of loss characteristics in ATM switching systems by R1022. 177-186
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  Jordi Domingo, Herman Michiel, Reinhard Habermann, Matthias Sommer, Nikolas Mitrou, Yonggang Du, Martina Götz, Ralf Lehnert, Zhili Sun, John Paul Cosmas, Thomas Renger, Thomas Theimer:
  Switching block studies, network performance evaluation and traffic engineering for ATM. 187-198
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  Herbert Heiss, Eugen Wallmeier, Giancarlo Rigolio, Tiziana Toniatti:
  Performance design of an ATM node on the basis of the experience from the BLNT RACE project. 199-206
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  Mario Bonatti, Alexei A. Gaivoronski, Paloma Lemonche, Pietro Polese:
  Summary of some traffic engineering studies carried out within RACE project R1044. 207-218
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  Tiziana Toniatti, Luigi Verri, Olga Casals, Jorge García-Vidal, Chris Blondia, John D. Angelopoulos, Iakovos S. Venieris:
  Performance of shared medium access protocols for ATM traffic concentration. 219-226
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  Enrico Bagnasco, Marco Burgassi, Paolo Castelli:
  A TMN approach to traffic control in B-ISDN. 227-234

Communication Theories

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  Kurt Metzger:
  A new approach to sequential detection. 235-244

Telecommunication Systems

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  Lajos Hanzo, Raymond Steele:
  The pan-European mobile radio system: Part I. 245-260
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  Lajos Hanzo, Raymond Steele:
  The pan-European mobile radio system: Part II. 261-276

Communication Networks

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  Zhigang Zhang, Harro L. Hartmann, Hucang He, Zhe Bai:
  An algorithm for optimal load balancing in a multiple GI/G/1 queueing system. 277-284
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  Monica Cuppini:
  A genetic algorithm for channel assignment problems. 285-294

Volume 5, Number 3, May / June 1994

Communication Theories

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  Fulvio Gini, Marco Luise:
  Asynchronous polarization diversity receivers for coherent optical communications: A performance review. 307-318
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  Pavel Hasan:
  Multiple cochannel interference effects in a first-order phase-locked loop. 319-326

Telecommunication Systems

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  Emilio Matricciani:
  Prediction of site diversity performance in satellite communications systems affected by rain attenuation: Extension of the two layer rain model. 327-336
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  Mohammad Ghavami, Said Nader-Esfahani, Werner Rupprecht:
  Decision feedback equalization of HDSL using a generalized adaptive IIR delay filter. 337-346
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  Arnold L. Welti, Urs P. Bernhard:
  Mean time to lose lock of the first-and second-order modified code tracking loop used in spread spectrum systems. 347-364
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  Gerd Zimmermann, Werner Rupprecht:
  Letter: Application of a simplified fano metric to adaptive receivers for digital mobile radio systems. 365-370

Signals Processing

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  Leon-Paul W. Niemel, Ramjee Prasad:
  An improved character description method based on generalized fourier descriptors. 371-376
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  Riccardo Bernardini, Roberto Manduchi:
  Letter: On the reduction of multidimensional DFT to separabile DFT by smith normal form theorem. 377-380

Communication Networks

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  Marco Di Concetto, Luciano Gabrielli, Vinicio Vercellone, Riccardo Melen:
  Testing methods and equipments for ATM switching nodes. 381-390
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  Efstathios D. Sykas, Konstantinos M. Vlakos, Konstantinos P. Tsoukatos, Emmanuel N. Protonotarios:
  Letter: Performance evaluation of analytical models for effective bandwidth allocation in ATM networks. 391-396

Optical Communications

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  Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, Robert A. Cryan, F. Mike Clayton:
  Theoretical characterisation and practical implementation of optical fibre PPM self synchronisation sequences. 397-404
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  Francesco Carassa:
  Letter: Spacing of lumped amplifiers in soliton transmission. 405-410

Volume 5, Number 4, July / August 1994

Editorials

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  William Wolfowicz, Rainer A. Rueppel:
  Guest editorial. 419-420

Articles

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  James L. Massey:
  Some applications of source coding in cryptography. 421-430
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  Bart Preneel:
  Cryptographic hash functions. 431-448
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  Yvo Desmedt:
  Threshold cryptography. 449-458
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  Gustavus J. Simmons:
  Subliminal channels; past and present. 459-474

Communication Theories

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  Marco Luise, Roberto Roncella:
  VLSI implementation of a signal interpolator chip for high-speed all-digital data modems. 475-482

Telecommunication Systems

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  Marco Ferrari, Valentino Castellani, Renato Lo Cigno, Giacinto Losquadro, Mirto Tabone:
  Transmission issues for HDTV satellite systems. 483-494
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  Dimitris K. Lymberopoulos, George C. Anastassopoulos, Minas Karatzoglou, George Kokkinakis:
  An homogeneous medical tele-working domain supported by a new remote expert consultation conferencing service. 495-508

Signals Processing

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  Monica Visintin:
  An adaptive DSP predistortion technique for radio systems. 509-516

Optical Communications

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  Paolo Spano, Fabrizio Castelli, Pierluigi Debernardi, Alessandro Cavaciuti:
  Frequency conversion in semiconductor lasers and amplifiers. 517-528

Correspondences

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  Bernhard J. Mayr, Hans Weinrichter:
  Comments on: "Coded modulations for Rayleigh Fading channels: An overview" by C.E. Sundberg, N. Seshadri, (ETT 4(3): 309-324). 529-531

Articles

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  Carl-Erik W. Sundberg, Nambi Seshadri:
  Response to comments on: Coded modulations for Rayleigh Fading Channels: An Overview. 531

Volume 5, Number 5, September / October 1994

Editorials

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  José Roberto Boisson de Marca, Maurizio Copperi:
  Guest editorial. 539-540

Articles

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  Vladimir Cuperman, Fenghua Liu, Paul Ho:
  Robust vector quantization for noisy channels using soft decision and sequential decoding. 541-552
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  Sonia L. Q. Dall'Agnol, Abraham Alcaim, José Roberto Boisson de Marca:
  Performance of LSF vector quantizers for VSELP coders in noisy channels. 553-564
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  Maurizio Copperi:
  On encoding pitch and LPC parameters for low-rate speech coders. 565-572
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  W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Peter Kroon, Dror Nahumi:
  The RCELP speech-coding algorithm. 573-582
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  Shinji Hayashi, Akitoshi Kataoka, Takehiro Moriya:
  8 kbit/s short and medium delay speech codecs based on CELP coding. 583-590
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  Erdal Paksoy, Allen Gersho, Krishnaswamy Srinivasan:
  Variable bit-rate CELP coding of speech with phonetic classification. 591-602
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  Luca Cellario, Daniele Sereno:
  CELP coding at variable rate. 603-614

Communication Theories

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  Karl Heinrich Hofmann:
  Letter: On uniform distance property of multilevel block 8-PSK modulation. 615-618
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  Pavel Hasan:
  Letter: Cycle slip statistics of a first-order phase-locked loop in the presence of additive noise and cochannel interference. 619-624

Telecommunication Systems

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  Francesco Delli Priscoli:
  Architecture of on integrated GSM-satellite system. 625-634

Optical Communications

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  Hikmet Sari, Hervé Houeix, Georges Karam:
  Phase and frequency detectors for clock synchronization in high-speed optical transmission systems. 635-642

Volume 5, Number 6, November / December 1994

Communication Theories

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  Wonjin Sung, John T. Coffey:
  Decoding short binary cyclic codes via covering polynomials. 653-664
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  Wing-Man Lee, Frank R. Kschischang:
  Complexity/performance tradeoffs in multistage decoders. 665-679

Telecommunication Systems

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  Aysel Safak, Ramjee Prasad:
  Correlated co-channel log-normal interferers in cellular radio. 681-688
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  Gianni Lazzari, Franco Maloberti, Gianni Oliveri, Guido Torelli:
  Sinewave modulation for data communication by direct digital synthesis and sigma delta techniques. 689-695
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  Francesco Barbaliscia, Leila Guerriero, Giovanni Schiavon, Domenico Solimini:
  Space-Earth absorption in the absence of rain: Radiometric inversion coefficients for Italy. 697-703
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  Rodolfo Mann Pelz, Marcus Benthin, Karl-Dirk Kammeyer:
  Digital video and speech transmission in existing land mobile radio networks. 705-718
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  Zoran Siveski, Yeheskel Bar-Ness, David W. Chen:
  Error performance of synchronous multiuser code division multiple access detector with multidimensional adaptive canceler. 719-724
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  Enrico Del Re, Romano Fantacci, Antonio Pazzaglia:
  Code division multiple access schemes for terrestrial and satellite mobile communication networks: Modeling and performance evaluation. 725-737

Signals Processing

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  Enzo Mumolo, Alessio Rebelli, Giuseppe Riceardi:
  Improved multipulse algorithm for speech coding by means of adaptive boltzmann annealing. 739-746

Communication Networks

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  Raffaele Bolla, Franco Davoli, Alfio Lombardo, Sergio Palazzo, Daniela Panno:
  Hierarchical dynamic control of multiple traffic classes in ATM networks. 747-755

Optical Communications

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  Gianfranco L. Cariolaro, Roberto Corvaja, Gianfranco L. Pierobon:
  Exact performance evaluation of lightwave systems with optical preamplifier. 757-766