Signal Processing in Telecommunications: Proceedings of the 7th International Thyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications Viareggio, Italy, Septemb (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 Applications of DSP to Personal Communication Networks.- BER Comparison of DS-CDMA and MC-CDMA for Frequency Selective Fading Channels.- Performance Enhancement of Indoor Channels Using Quasi-Coherent Combining of Multiple Antenna Signals.- Applications of Walsh Functions and the FHT in CDMA Technology.- Decision Feedback Multi-User Detection for Multitone CDMA Systems.- Blind Adaptive Interference-Cancelling Detectors for DS/SS CDMA: Algorithms and Performance.- The Bootstrap Decorrelating Algorithm: A Promising Tool for Adaptive Separation of Multi-User CDMA Signals.- 2 Joint Source/Channel Coding for Multimedia Applications.- Rate-Distortion Performance of Several Joint Source and Channel Coding Schemes for Images.- Bounds on the Performance of Vector Quantizers operating under Channel Errors over all Index Assignments.- Adaptive Temporal & Spatial Error Concealment Measures in MPEG-2 Video Decoder with Enhanced Error Detection.- Source and Channel Coding Issues for ATM Networks.- Combined Source and Channel Coding for Wireless ATM LANs.- 3 DSP in Channel Estimation/Equalization and Modem Design.- Block-by-Block Channel and Sequence Estimation for ISI/Fading Channels.- Timing Correction by Means of Digital Interpolation.- Digital Demodulator Architectures for BandPass Sampling Receivers.- Quadrature Phase Error and Amplitude Imbalance Effects on Digital Demodulator Performance.- Maximum-Likelihood Sequence Estimation for OFDM.- A New Analysis Method for the Performance of BandPass Sampling Digital Demodulators Considering IF Filter Effects.- Comparison of Demodulation Techniques for MSK.- Variable Symbol-rate Modem Design for Cable and Satellite TV Broadcasting.- A New Class of Carrier Frequency and Phase Estimators Suited for MPSK Modulation.- 4 Signal Processing in Satellite Networks.- Payload Digital Processor Hardware Demonstration for Future Mobile and Personal Communication Systems.- Frequency Domain Switching: Algorithms, Performances, Implementation Aspects.- Design Study for a CDMA Based LEO Satellite Network: Downlink System Level Parameters.- A Multi-user Approach to Combating Co-channel Interference in Narrow band Mobile Communications.- Digital Radio for the World: High-Grade Service Quality Through On-Board Processing Techniques.- 5 Advanced Signal Processing Techniques.- Digital Equalization using Modular Neural Networks: an Overview.- Vector Quantization Using Artificial Neural Network Models.- Neural Networks for Communications and Signal Processing: Overview and New Results.- Transform-Domain Signal Processing in Digital Communications.- Fuzzy-Rule-Based Phase Estimator Suited for Digital Implementation.- 6 Recent Applications of DSP Techniques.- Analog Envelope Constrained Filters for Channel Equalization.- Design of All-Digital Wireless Spread-Spectrum Modems Using High-Level Synthesis.- Efiicient VHDL Code Generation for Digital Receiver Design.- Blind Joint Equalization of Multiple Synchronous Mobile Users for Spatial Division Multiple Access.- Base-Station Antenna Arrays in Mobile Communications.