SPAWC 2007

The VIII IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications,June 17- 20, 2007, Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland

Technical Program

SPAWC 2007 - Preliminary Technical Programme
 
 SESSION M1 - PLENARY: Wireless Networking with Secrecy Constraints
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 09:00 - 10:00
 Location: Auditorium
 Speaker: Lang Tong, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 SESSION M2A: Performance Analysis and Capacity
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - MULTIUSER GAUSSIANITY AND CONSTELLATION RANDOMIZATION FOR THE MIMO MULTIPLE ACCESS CHANNEL: A UNIFIED VIEW
Eduard Jorswieck, Erik Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 
 2 - LARGE SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF GAME-THEORETIC POWER CONTROL IN UWB WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH RAKE RECEIVERS
Giacomo Bacci, Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy; H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, United States
 
 3 - MIMO-OFDM OPTIMAL DECODING AND ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATES UNDER IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATION
Sajad Sadough, ENSTA, France; Pablo Piantanida, Pierre Duhamel, CNRS/LSS, France
 
 4 - BINARY POWER CONTROL FOR MULTI-CELL CAPACITY MAXIMIZATION
Anders Gjendemsjo, Geir E. Oien, NTNU, Norway; David Gesbert, Institut Eurecom, France
 
 5 - EXACT CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS FOR THE SUM CAPACITY AND INDIVIDUAL USERS' RATES IN BROADCAST ERGODIC RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS
Jesús Pérez, Jesús Ibáñez, Ignacio Santamaría, University of Cantabria, Spain
 
 6 - THROUGHPUT AWARE POWER-BALANCING FOR THE MIMO GAUSSIAN MAC
Thomas Michel, Gerhard Wunder, Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab Mobile Communications, Germany
 
 7 - OPTIMAL DECODING ORDER UNDER TARGET RATE CONSTRAINTS
Alberto Suárez, Insitut Eurecom, France; Mérouane Debbah, Supélec, France; Laura Cottatellucci, Insitut Eurecom, France; Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
 
 8 - ON THE PRE-LOG OF THE ASYMPTOTIC CAPACITY OF STATIONARY FREQUENCY-FLAT MULTI-ANTENNA CHANNELS
Umer Salim, Dirk Slock, Eurecom Institut, France
 
 9 - PRACTICAL LAYERED RATELESS CODES FOR THE GAUSSIAN CHANNEL: POWER ALLOCATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Jerome Shapiro, Richard Barron, The MITRE Corporation, United States; Gregory Wornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
 
 SESSION M2B: Cooperative Transmission and Reception Schemes - 1
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - RADIO RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION FOR THE HALF-DUPLEX RELAY-ASSISTED MULTIPLE ACCESS CHANNEL
Adrian Agustin de Dios, Josep Vidal, UPC, Spain
 
 2 - A DECODE AND FORWARD COOPERATION SCHEME WITH SOFT INFORMATION RELAYING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Tuyen Bui, Jinhong Yuan, UNSW, Australia
 
 3 - DIVERSITY ANALYSIS OF A PARALLEL AMPLIFY AND FORWARD RELAY NETWORK
Taneli Riihonen, Risto Wichman, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Jyri Hämäläinen, Nokia Networks, Finland
 
 4 - RELAY SELECTION IN BIDIRECTIONAL RELAY COMMUNICATION
Tobias Josef Oechtering, Holger Boche, TU Berlin, Germany
 
 5 - CARRIER PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED NODES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK
Stefan Berger, Armin Wittneben, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 
 6 - ANALYSIS OF PSEUDO-RANDOM TIMING FOR LOW OBSERVABLE COMMUNICATION SIGNALS
Richard Martin, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States; Frank Kragh, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
 
 7 - COOPERATIVE ROUND ROBIN MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORKS FOR JOINT RATE AND QOS ENHANCEMENT
Aitor del Coso, Nizar Zorba, Christian Ibars, CTTC, Spain; Ana Perez-Neira, UPC, Spain
 
 8 - COOPERATIVE COGNITIVE RADIOS WITH OPTIMAL PRIMARY DETECTION AND PACKET ACCEPTANCE CONTROL
Osvaldo Simeone, NJIT, United States; Jonathan Gambini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Yeheskel Bar-Ness, NJIT, United States; Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
 SESSION M3A -SPECIAL SESSION: 3G Evolution - HSPA, LTE and Beyond
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 1
 Session Organizer and Chair: Stefan Parkvall, Ericsson Research, Sweden

 1 - EVOLUTION OF WCDMA HIGH SPEED PACKET ACCESS AND BROADCAST SERVICES
Bo Göransson, Douglas Cairns, Eric Wang, Carmela Cozzo, Tracy Fulghum, Stephen Grant, Ericsson Research, Sweden
 
 2 - EVOLVED UTRA - PHYSICAL LAYER OVERVIEW
Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
 
 3 - EVALUATION OF THE RECENT ADVANCES OF THE EVOLVED 3G (E-UTRA) FOR THE VOIP AND BEST EFFORT TRAFFIC SCENARIOS
Mika Rinne, Nokia research Center, Finland; Kari Pajukoski, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Finland; Markku Kuusela, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Klaus Pedersen, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Denmark; Jussi Ojala, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Esa Tuomaala, Nokia Research Center, China; Istvan Kovacs, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Denmark; Haiming Wang, Nokia Research Center, China; Per Henrik Michaelsen, Claudio Rosa, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Denmark; Jurgen Michel, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Germany
 
 4 - SOME RADIO IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES IN 3G-LTE CONTEXT
Mikko Valkama, Lauri Anttila, Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 5 - ON SELECTIVITY FILTER DESIGN FOR 3G LONG-TERM EVOLUTION MOBILE TERMINALS
Bengt Lindoff, Leif Wilhelmsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden
 
 6 - ROBUST DETECTION FOR THE UPLINK OF BROADBAND WIRELESS SYSTEMS WITH STRONG ACI LEVELS
Rui Dinis, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal; David Falconer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
 
 7 - A MIMO FRAMEWORK FOR 4G SYSTEMS: WINNER CONCEPT AND RESULTS
Afif Osseiran, Ericsson Research, Sweden; Veljko Stankovic, TU Ilmenau, Germany; Eduard Jorswieck, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Thorsten Wild, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany; Martin Fuchs, TU Ilmenau, Germany; Magnus Olsson, Ericsson Research, Germany
 
 SESSION M3B: Signal Processing Tools for Ad Hoc, Multi-Hop, and Sensor Networks
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - EXPECTATION PROPAGATION FOR DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION IN SENSOR NETWORKS
John Walsh, Drexel University, United States; Phillip Regalia, Catholic University of America, United States
 
 2 - DISTRIBUTED DECISION THROUGH SELF-SYNCHRONIZING SENSOR NETWORKS IN THE PRESENCE OF PROPAGATION DELAYS AND NONRECIPROCAL CHANNELS
Gesualdo Scutari, Sergio Barbarossa, Loreto Pescosolido, University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy
 
 3 - AN ACHIEVABLE RATE PER UNIT ENERGY FOR MULTIPLE RELAY NETWORKS
Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain; Ana I. Perez-Neira, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
 
 4 - COUPLING NOISE EFFECT IN SELF-SYNCHRONIZING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Pau Closas, Eduard Calvo, Juan Fernández-Rubio, Alba Pagès-Zamora, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
 
 5 - A DIFFUSION RLS SCHEME FOR DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION OVER ADAPTIVE NETWORKS
Federico Cattivelli, Cassio Lopes, Ali Sayed, UCLA, United States
 
 6 - SEQUENTIAL SOURCE CODING WITH SIDE INFORMATION FOR SENSOR NETWORKS
Azadeh Vosoughi, University of Rochester, United States; Anna Scaglione, Cornell University, United States
 
 7 - ERROR EXPONENTS FOR BAYESIAN DETECTION WITH RANDOMLY SPACED SENSORS
Saswat Misra, ARL / Cornell, United States; Lang Tong, Cornell, United States
 
 8 - DISTRIBUTED MAP AND LMMSE ESTIMATION OF RANDOM SIGNALS USING AD HOC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH NOISY LINKS
Ioannis Schizas, Georgios Giannakis, Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Minnesota, United States
 
 9 - IMPACT OF PHYSICAL LAYER DESIGN ON DEPLOYMENT OF A SENSOR NETWORK WITH CORRELATED OBSERVATIONS
Taposh Banerjee, Arzad Kherani, IIT Delhi, India; Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France; Aline Roumy, IRISA INRIA, France
 
 SESSION M4 - PLENARY: Title to be included
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 14:00 - 15:00
 Location: Auditorium
 Speaker: Petteri Alinikula, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

 SESSION M5A: Multiple Access and Broadcast Channels, Multi-User Receivers
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - CHIP-INTERLEAVED DECORRELATION IN ASYNCHRONOUS DS CDMA
Alexey Dudkov, Valery Ipatov, University of Turku, Finland
 
 2 - A UNIFIED APPROACH TO JOINT ADAPTIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR CDMA SYSTEMS IN MULTIPATH CHANNELS
Rodrigo de Lamare, University of York, United Kingdom; Raimundo Sampaio-Neto, CETUC, PUC-RIO, Brazil; Are Hjørungnes, UNIK, University of Oslo, Norway
 
 3 - MODEL SELECTION FOR ADAPTIVE ROBUST PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND ITS IMPACT ON MULTIUSER DETECTION
Ulrich Hammes, Christopher L. Brown, Ramon F. Brcich, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
 
 4 - JOINT SOURCE SEPARATION AND OFFSET ESTIMATION FOR ASYNCHRONOUS OFDM SYSTEMS USING SUBSPACE FITTING
Vijay Venkateswaran, Alle-Jan van der Veen, TU-Delft, Netherlands; Mounir Ghogho, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
 
 5 - GROUP GAIN DESIGN FOR OVERLOADED CDMA
Gianmarco Romano, Domenico Ciuonzo, Francesco Palmieri, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy; Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
 
 6 - USER SELECTION SCHEMES IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA BROADCAST CHANNELS WITH GUARANTEED PERFORMANCE
Xi Zhang, Eduard Jorswieck, Björn Ottersten, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden; Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, United States
 
 7 - BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSETS
Yuanning Yu, Athina P. Petropulu, Drexel University, United States; H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, United States
 
 8 - EFFICIENT FEEDBACK QUANTIZATION FOR ORTHOGONAL RANDOM BEAMFORMING SCHEME
Roberto Bosisio, Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
 9 - A SECOND-ORDER CONE DEFLATION APPROACH TO JOINT MULTIUSER DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING AND ADMISSION CONTROL
Evaggelia Matskani, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Technical University of Crete, Greece; Zhi-Quan Luo, University of Minnesota, United States; Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece
 
 SESSION M5B: Equalization, Detection, and Decoding
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - MIMO-OFDM ITERATIVE RECEIVER DESIGN IN MULTICELL ENVIRONMENTS
Jinho Choi, University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom
 
 2 - VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVES ON ITERATIVE DETECTION IN THE PRESENCE OF PHASE UNCERTAINTY
Mauri Nissila, Nokia Networks, Finland
 
 3 - RADIUS-ADAPTIVE SPHERE DECODING VIA PROBABILISTIC TREE PRUNING
Byonghyo Shim, Insung Kang, Qualcomm, United States
 
 4 - COMBINING MULTICARRIER CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEX WITH CYCLIC DELAY DIVERSITY FOR FUTURE WLANS
Felip Riera-Palou, Guillem Femenias, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
 
 5 - A NEW TRANSMITTER CONCEPT FOR ITERATIVELY-DECODED SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING SCHEMES
Ragnar Thobaben, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
 
 6 - CALCULATING TURBO-DECODING PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS FOR ADAPTIVE CHANNEL CODING
Harold Sneessens, Xavier Jaspar, Cédric Herzet, Luc Vandendorpe, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
 
 7 - BIT LOADING AND POWER ALLOCATION FOR BICM-ID WITH CONVOLUTIONAL CODES
David Matas, Meritxell Lamarca, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
 
 8 - IMPROVING SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO BLIND EQUALIZATION IN OFDM FOR SPARSE MULTIPATH CHANNELS
Xunyi Yu, Ping Lin, Zhiqiang He, Weiling Wu, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecomm., China
 
 9 - ITERATIVE SOURCE-CODED EQUALIZATION: TURBO ERROR CONCEALMENT FOR ISI CHANNELS
Laurent Schmalen, RWTH Aachen, Germany; Thorsten Clevorn, Infineon Technologies, Germany; Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen, Germany
 
 SESSION M5C: Cooperative Transmission and Reception Schemes - 2
 Date: June 18, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 3

 1 - ANALYTICAL RESULTS ON BLOCK LENGTH OPTIMIZATION FOR DECODE-AND-FORWARD RELAYING WITH CSI FEEDBACK
Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Erik Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
 
 2 - A SIMPLE OPTIMUM DETECTOR FOR DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING UNDER IMPERFECT SYNCHRONISATION
Fu-Chun Zheng, York University, United Kingdom
 
 3 - BASE-STATION SELECTION IN COOPERATIVE SINGLE FREQUENCY CELLULAR NETWORK
Mohamed Kamoun, Laurent Mazet, Motorola, France
 
 4 - DOWNLINK POWER CONTROL WITH HYBRID CHANNEL KNOWLEDGE FOR MULTI-CELL MULTI-ANTENNA CDMA SYSTEMS
Carmen Botella, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia UPV, Spain; Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Maria de Diego, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
 
 5 - RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MULTIHOP OFDMA BROADCAST NETWORKS
Eduard Calvo Page, Josep Vidal, Javier R. Fonollosa, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
 
 6 - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME CODES IN AMPLIFY-AND-FORWARD MODE
Behrouz Maham, Said Nader-Esfahani, University of Tehran, Iran
 
 7 - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR THE AF-BASED FREQUENCY DIVISION COOPERATIVE BROADCAST CHANNEL
Elena Veronica Belmega, Brice Djeumou, Samson Lasaulce, CNRS, France
 
 8 - REALISTIC TRANSMITTER VS RECEIVER COOPERATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH NON IDEAL CARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION
Benjamín Béjar, Santiago Zazo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
 
 SESSION T1 - PLENARY: Wireless Communication Networks as Environmental Sensor Networks
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 09:00 - 10:00
 Location: Auditorium
 Speaker: Hagit Messer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

 SESSION T2A: Smart Antennas, MIMO Systems, and Space-Time Coding - 1
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - A NEW EXACT CLOSEST LATTICE POINT SEARCH ALGORITHM USING LINEAR CONSTRAINTS
Weiyu Xu, Babak Hassibi, Caltech, United States
 
 2 - TRANSMIT ANTENNA SELECTION FOR V-BLAST MIMO SYSTEM BASED ON EXTENDED CHANNEL MATRIX ANALYSIS
Jianguo Liu, Luxi Yang, Southeast University, China
 
 3 - VECTOR PRECODING WITH BOUNDED COMPLEXITY
Rene Habendorf, Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany
 
 4 - LIST-BASED SOFT DEMODULATION OF MIMO QPSK VIA SEMIDEFINITE RELAXATION
Mehran Nekuii, Timothy Davidson, McMaster University, Canada
 
 5 - SERIAL SIGNAL DETECTOR FOR TIME-REVERSAL STBC OVER FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE CHANNELS
Lingyang Song, UniK, Norway; Rodrigo Lamare, Alister Burr, University of York, United Kingdom; Are Hjørungnes, UniK, Norway
 
 6 - SOFT-OUTPUT MMSE OSIC MIMO DETECTOR WITH REDUCED-COMPLEXITY APPROXIMATIONS
Jun Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Oliver Yu Wen, Nextwave Wireless Inc., Canada; Shaoqian Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
 
 7 - IMPROVED LATTICE REDUCTION AIDED DETECTION BASED ON EXTENDED NOISE VARIANCE MATRIX FOR MIMO SYSTEMS
Dong-Jin Lee, Ryun-Woo Kim, Youn-Shik Byun, University of InCheon, South Korea
 
 8 - A NEW CLASS OF BALANCED 4-PSK STTC FOR TWO AND THREE TRANSMIT ANTENNAS
Thi Minh Hien Ngo, Gheorghe Zaharia, Stephane Bougeard, Jean-Francois Helard, IETR/ INSA, France
 
 9 - MIMO TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING UNDER UNIFORM ELEMENTAL POWER CONSTRAINT
Xiayu Zheng, University of Florida, United States; Yao Xie, Stanford University, United States; Jian Li, University of Florida, United States; Petre Stoica, Uppsala University, Sweden
 
 10 - SOS-BASED BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION UNDER SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODED TRANSMISSIONS
Javier Vía, Ignacio Santamaría, University of Cantabria, Spain; Aydin Sezgin, Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, United States
 
 SESSION T2B: Cross-Layer Issues: From Physical to Networking Layers
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - OPPORTUNISTIC DISTRIBUTED POWER CONTROL WITH QOS GUARANTEE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Fabiano Chaves, UNICAMP, Brazil; Rodrigo Cavalcanti, Ricardo Santos, Raimundo Oliveira Neto, UFC, Brazil
 
 2 - DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH CHANNEL-AWARE SLOTTED ALOHA
Lei Keng-U, Hong Yao-Win, Chi Chong-Yung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
 3 - JOINT DOWNLINK POWER ALLOCATION, BEAMFORMING WEIGHTS AND BASE ASSIGNMENT
Lev Smolar, Tel Aviv university, Israel; Itsik Bergel, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Hagit Messer-Yaron, Tel Aviv University, Israel
 
 4 - ON THE EXISTENCE OF A PROPORTIONALLY FAIR OPERATING POINT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Holger Boche, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institut, Germany; Martin Schubert, Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab MCI, Germany
 
 5 - JOINT PHY-MAC DESIGN FOR OPPORTUNISTIC SPECTRUM ACCESS WITH MULTI-CHANNEL SENSING
Yunxia Chen, Qing Zhao, University of California, Davis, United States; Ananthram Swami, Army Research Laboratory, United States
 
 6 - JOINT STOCHASTIC ROUTING AND SCHEDULING FOR MULTIHOP WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORKS
Alejandro Ribeiro, Georgios Giannakis, University of Minnesota, United States
 
 7 - A CONTENTION BINARY TREE ALGORITHM ASSISTED BY SOURCE SEPARATION
Ramiro Samano, Mounir Ghogho, Desmond McLernon, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
 
 8 - OPTIMIZED LINK ADAPTATION FOR WIRELESS PACKET COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON DISCRETE-RATE MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES
Jalil Seifali Harsini, Farshad Lahouti, University of Tehran, Iran
 
 SESSION T3A -SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Multiuser MIMO
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 1
  Session Organizer and Chair: Ari Hottinen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

 1 - EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR ORTHOGONAL TRANSMISSION IN BROADCAST CHANNELS
Eduard Calvo, Javier R. Fonollosa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
 
 2 - ON THE OPTIMAL RELAY LOCATION AND POWER ALLOCATION IN A VIRTUAL ARRAY SYSTEM WITH MINIMUM OVERALL OUTAGE PROBABILITY
Loreto Pescosolido, Sergio Barbarossa, University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy
 
 3 - MIMO TWO-WAY RELAYING WITH TRANSMIT CSI AT THE RELAY
Ingmar Hammerström, Marc Kuhn, Celal Esli, Jian Zhao, Armin Wittneben, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Gerhard Bauch, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany
 
 4 - A LOW COMPLEXITY DISTRIBUTED MULTIBASE TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR IMPROVING THE SUM CAPACITY OF WIRELESS NETWORKS
Hilde Skjevling, University of Oslo, Norway; David Gesbert, Eurécom Institute, France; Are Hjørungnes, University of Oslo, Norway
 
 5 - PROPERTIES AND OPERATIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PROPORTIONALLY FAIR RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Martin Schubert, Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications (MCI), Germany; Holger Boche, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
 
 6 - PERFORMANCE OF AN OPTIMUM RECEIVER SCHEME BASED ON PILOT-SYMBOL CHANNEL ESTIMATION OVER A MEASURED MIMO CHANNEL
Giulio Coluccia, Giorgio Taricco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Christoph Mecklenbräuker, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 
 7 - OPTIMAL SUBCHANNEL ASSIGNMENT IN A TWO-HOP OFDM RELAY
Ari Hottinen, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Tiina Heikkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
 
 SESSION T3B: Acquisition, Synchronization, and Tracking
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - BLIND CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION FOR NON-CRITICALLY SAMPLED FMT SYSTEMS IN MULTIPATH CHANNELS
Tilde Fusco, Angelo Petrella, Mario Tanda, University of Naples, Italy
 
 2 - ITERATIVE ENVELOPE-BASED SNR ESTIMATION FOR NONCONSTANT MODULUS CONSTELLATIONS
Roberto Lopez-Valcarce, Carlos Mosquera, University of Vigo, Spain; Wilfried Gappmair, Graz University of Technology, Austria
 
 3 - TRAINING SEQUENCE DESIGN FOR JOINT CHANNEL AND FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION WITH PARTIAL CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION
Pascal Bianchi, Supélec, France; Philippe Ciblat, ENST, France
 
 4 - PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN BANDLIMITED LONG-CODE CDMA SYSTEMS
Stefano Buzzi, Valeria Massaro, University of Cassino, Italy
 
 5 - BAYESIAN CRAMÉR RAO BOUND FOR DYNAMICAL PHASE OFFSET ESTIMATION
Stéphanie Bay, ENS Cachan, France; Cédric Herzet, UC Berkeley, United States; Jean-Marc Brossier, INPG, France; Jean-Pierre Barbot, ENS Cachan, France; Alexandre Renaux, Washington University in Saint Louis, United States; Benoît Geller, ENS Cachan, France
 
 6 - A FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH FOR NON-COHERENT TIMING CHIP-LEVEL SYNCHRONIZATION FOR CDMA SYSTEMS
Cristiano Panazio, Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
 
 7 - ITERATIVE CODE-AIDED PHASE NOISE SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON THE LMMSE CRITERION
Susanne Godtmann, Niels Hadaschik, André Pollok, Gerd Ascheid, Heinrich Meyr, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 
 8 - ROBUST WIDE-RANGE FREQUENCY ESTIMATOR FOR REAL DATA OFDM SYSTEMS
Arafat Al-Dweik, Etisalat University College, United Arab Emirates; Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; S. Al-Araji, Ridha Hamila, Etisalat University College, United Arab Emirates
 
 9 - ON PULSE-COUPLED DISCRETE-TIME PHASE LOCKED LOOPS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
Osvaldo Simeone, NJIT, United States; Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Yeheskel Bar-Ness, NJIT, United States
 
 10 - A BLIND CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION SCHEME FOR OFDM SYSTEMS WITH CONSTANT MODULUS SIGNALING
Xiangnian Zeng, Ali Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Canada
 
 SESSION T4 - PLENARY: Fundamental Issues in Cognitive Radio
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 14:00 - 15:00
 Location: Auditorium
 Speaker: Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada

 SESSION T5A: Smart Antennas, MIMO Systems, and Space-Time Coding - 2
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - A SUBCARRIER AVERAGE BASED BLOCK-BY-BLOCK BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR MULTI-USER OFDM SYSTEMS
Teng-Han Tsai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Xiang Chen, Tsinghua University, China; Chong-Yung Chi, Wing-Kin Ma, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Shidong Zhou, Yan Yao, Tsinghua University, China
 
 2 - A LAYER-ADAPTIVE M ALGORITHM FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT CHANNEL DETECTION
David Milliner, John Barry, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
 
 3 - IMPROVED QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES WITH HEXAGONAL LATTICE MODULATION
David Smith, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
 
 4 - NEAR MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTION SCHEMES BASED ON RD ALGORITHM FOR MIMO SYSTEMS
Ryun-Woo Kim, Dong-Jin Lee, Youn-Shik Byun, University of InCheon, South Korea
 
 5 - NON-ORTHOGONAL DIFFERENTIAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE WITH NON-UNITARY CONSTELLATIONS
Manav R. Bhatnagar, Are Hjørungnes, Lingyang Song, UniK-University Graduate Center, Norway
 
 6 - A TWO-ANTENNA TWO-TONE SPACE-FREQUENCY CODE USING REDUCED CHANNEL FEEDBACK
J Vinosh Babu James, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, India; Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
 
 7 - BEAMFORMING UTILIZING CHANNEL NORM FEEDBACK IN MULTIUSER MIMO SYSTEMS
Emil Björnson, David Hammarwall, Björn Ottersten, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 
 8 - A SUBOPTIMAL EQUALIZER FOR MIMO SYSTEMS TO GUARANTEE MAXIMUM DIVERSITY AND NEAR LINEAR EQUALIZATION COMPLEXITY
Wei Zhang, Xiaoli Ma, Georgia Tech, United States
 
 9 - A LOW-COST APPROACH TO TRAINING-BASED MIMO CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN INTERFERENCE-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
Dimitrios Katselis, University of Athens, Greece; Eleftherios Kofidis, University of Piraeus, Greece; Sergios Theodoridis, University of Athens, Greece
 
 10 - HIGH PERFORMANCE LOW COMPLEXITY RECEIVER FOR V-BLAST
Kalyan krishnan, Hellosoft, India; Umapathi Reddy, HelloSoft, India
 
 SESSION T5B: Modeling, Estimation and Equalization of Time-Varying Channels
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - PILOT SCHEMES FOR TIME-VARYING CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN OFDM SYSTEMS
Zijian Tang, Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
 
 2 - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF BANDED EQUALIZERS FOR OFDM SYSTEMS IN TIME-VARYING CHANNELS
Luca Rugini, Paolo Banelli, University of Perugia, Italy
 
 3 - JOINT DATA DETECTION AND CHANNEL TRACKING FOR OFDM SYSTEMS USING THE VARIATIONAL BAYES METHOD
Stelios Stefanatos, Aggelos Katsaggelos, University of Athens, Greece
 
 4 - A THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR TIME-VARYING WIDEBAND MIMO MOBILE-TO-MOBILE CHANNELS
Alenka Zajic, Gordon Stuber, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
 
 5 - CAPACITY AND POSITIONING IN DENSE SCATTERING ENVIRONMENTS
Nadia Fawaz, Eurecom Institute, France; Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France; David Gesbert, Eurecom Institute, France
 
 6 - OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF NBI AND THE EFFECT OF MISSPECIFIED NBI MODEL
Sheetal Kalyani, Krishnamurthy Giridhar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
 
 7 - ACCURATE POSTERIOR PROBABILITY ESTIMATES FOR CHANNEL EQUALIZATION USING GAUSSIAN PROCESSES FOR CLASSIFICATION
Fernando Pérez-Cruz, Princeton University, United States; Pablo Martínez-Olmos, Juan Jose Murillo-Fuentes, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
 
 8 - FAST FADING CHANNEL ESTIMATOR USING DCT AND SIMPLIFIED KALMAN FILTER
Jorge Schmidt, Juan Cousseau, UNS, Argentina; Risto Wichman, Fernando Gregorio, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 
 9 - TRAINING DESIGN FOR DOUBLY-SELECTIVE CHANNEL ESTIMATION
Timothy Whitworth, Mounir Ghogho, Desmond McLernon, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom
 
 10 - MAXIMUM-DIVERSITY AFFINE PRECODING FOR THE NONCOHERENT DOUBLY DISPERSIVE CHANNEL
Philip Schniter, Sung-Jun Hwang, The Ohio State University, United States
 
 SESSION T5C: Mobile Positioning, Direction Estimation, and Tracking
 Date: June 19, 2007
 Time: 15:15 - 17:00
 Location: Poster Area 3

 1 - A NEW LOW-COMPLEXITY SUPER-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUE LOCALIZE TWO CLOSELY-SPACED PLANE-WAVE SOURCES
Mehrez Souden, Sofiene Affes, Jacob Benesty, INRS-EMT, Canada
 
 2 - IINDOOR LOCALIZATION BY A NOVEL PROBABILISTIC APPROACH
Shih-Hau Fang, Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 
 3 - A NEW BEARINGS-ONLY TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR GROUND MOVING TARGETS CONSTRAINED TO ROADS
Nadir Castaneda, Maurice Charbit, Eric Moulines, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
 
 4 - AN EFFICIENT RAKE-CFAR METHOD FOR DOWNLINK MOBILE POSITIONING IN UMTS FDD MODE.
Steve Bartelmaos, Karim Abed-Meraim, Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications , Paris (ENST, Paris), France; F. Soltani, University of Constantine, Algeria
 
 5 - JOINT ESTIMATION OF TOA AND DOA IN IR-UWB
Monica Navarro, CTTC, Spain; Montse Nájar, UPC, Spain
 
 6 - ESTIMATION OF 2D-DOAS AND ANGULAR SPREADS FOR COHERENTLY DISTRIBUTED SOURCES USING CUMULANTS
Gaoyi Zhang, Bin Tang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
 
 7 - POSITION TRACKING AND GLOBAL LOCALIZATION OF MOBILE TERMINALS IN CELLULAR NETWORKS
Mohamed Khalaf-Allah, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany; Kyandoghere Kyamakya, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
 
 8 - DIRECT POSITION DETERMINATION OF OFDM SIGNALS
Ofer Bar-Shalom, Anthony J. Weiss, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
 
 SESSION W1 - PLENARY: Advanced Network Calculus for Interference Functions
 Date: June 20, 2007
 Time: 09:00 - 10:00
 Location: Auditorium
 Speaker: Holger Boche, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

 SESSION W2A: Smart Antennas, MIMO Systems, and Space-Time Coding - 3
 Date: June 20, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - ADAPTIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING LOW RATE CHANNEL STATE FEEDBACK
Liang Li, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany; Sergiy Vorobyov, University of Alberta, Canada; Alex Gershman, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
 
 2 - PERFORMANCE OF LINEAR RECEIVERS BASED ON SUPERIMPOSED TRAINING
Abla Kammoun, Karim Abed-meraim, ENST, France; Sofiène Affes, INRS-EMT, Canada
 
 3 - ON THE DESIGN OF SCALAR FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES FOR MIMO BROADCAST SCHEDULING
Ruben de Francisco, Dirk Slock, Eurecom Institute, France
 
 4 - NONCOHERENT SEQUENCE DETECTION OF DIFFERENTIAL SPACE-FREQUENCY MODULATION MIMO-OFDM
Xin Wang, Ying Li, Jibo Wei, National University of Defence Technology, China
 
 5 - MULTIUSER EIGENMODE TRANSMISSION FOR MIMO BROADCAST CHANNELS WITH LIMITED FEEDBACK
Federico Boccardi, Bell Labs, United Kingdom; Howard Huang, Bell Labs, United States; Matteo Trivellato, University of Padova, Italy
 
 6 - RECEIVER DESIGN FOR MIMO OFDM TRANSMISSION OVER TIME VARIANT CHANNELS
Tareq Al-Naffouri, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
 
 7 - CHANNEL TRACKING SCHEME USING BLOCK-BASED KALMAN ALGORITHM FOR MIMO WIRELESS SYSTEMS
Jiang Zhu, Ming Fei Siyau, London South Bank Univesity, United Kingdom; Kok Keong Loo, Brunel University, United Kingdom
 
 8 - A TRILINEAR DECOMPOSITION APPROACH FOR SPACE-TIME-FREQUENCY MULTIPLE-ACCESS WIRELESS SYSTEMS
Andre de Almeida, Gérard Favier, Laboratoire I3S / UNSA, France; Carlos Fernandes, Laboratoire I3S/ UNSA, France; Joao Mota, Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL)- DETI/UFC, Brazil
 
 9 - OPTIMAL CLOSED-LOOP TRANSMIT ANTENNA DIVERSITY WITH AVERAGE AND PEAK POWER CONSTRAINTS
Ye Hoon Lee, National University of Technology, South Korea; Nam-Soo Kim, Cheongju University, South Korea
 
 10 - SIMPLE PHASE ROTATION FOR TWO-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING IN TRANSMIT CORRELATED CHANNELS
Joon-Tae Kim, Dong-Jo Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
 
 SESSION W2B: Single-Carrier, Multi-Carrier, and Multi-Rate Systems
 Date: June 20, 2007
 Time: 10:00 - 11:15
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - GRADIENT-BASED BLIND ITERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR I/Q IMBALANCE COMPENSATION IN DIGITAL RADIO RECEIVERS
Lauri Anttila, Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 2 - COMPARISON OF SINGLE AND MULTI-USER PRE-FILTERING TECHNIQUES USING DIFFERENT CHIP MAPPING FOR DL MC-CDMA SYSTEMS
Adao Silva, Atilio Gameio, University of Aveiro, Portugal
 
 3 - ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION OF FREQUENCY SELECTIVE IQ IMBALANCE AND CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET FOR OFDM BASED RECEIVERS.
Deepaknath Tandur, Marc Moonen, ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium
 
 4 - A BLIND DIRECT CHANNEL-SHORTENING APPROACH FOR MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS
Donatella Darsena, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Francesco Verde, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 
 5 - WEIGTHED SUM-RATE MAXIMIZATION IN MULTIUSER-OFDM SYSTEMS UNDER DIFFERENTIATED QUALITY-OF-SERVICE CONSTRAINTS
Ayman Alsawah, Inbar Fijalkow, ETIS laboratory - CNRS UMR 8051, France
 
 6 - LSQR-BASED ICI EQUALIZATION FOR MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATIONS IN STRONGLY DISPERSIVE AND HIGHLY MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS
Georg Tauboeck, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Mario Hampejs, University of Vienna, Austria; Gerald Matz, Franz Hlawatsch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Karlheinz Groechenig, University of Vienna, Austria
 
 7 - OPTIMUM ISI-FREE DMT SYSTEMS WITH CONCAVE SNR TO BIT RATE RELATIONS: WHEN DOES OTHONORNMALITY SUFFICE?
Xuejie Song, Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa, United States
 
 8 - BROADBAND POWER AMPLIFIER DISTORTION CANCELLATION WITH MODEL ESTIMATION IN THE RECEIVER
Fernando Gregorio, Stefan Werner, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juan Cousseau, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina; Risto Wichman, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 
 9 - CHANNEL EQUALIZATION IN WIDEBAND SINGLE-CARRIER TRANSMISSION USING A FILTER BANK TRANSFORM AND A BLOCK INTERLEAVED DFE
Yuan Yang, Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
 
 10 - UNIVERSAL CODE DESIGNS FOR WIDELY-LINEAR MULTIUSER DETECTION IN DOWNLINK MC-CDMA
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 
 SESSION W3A: Signal Separation, and Interference Rejection
 Date: June 20, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 1

 1 - A BLOCK-BY-BLOCK BLIND POST-FFT BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM FOR MULTIUSER OFDM SYSTEMS BASED ON SUBCARRIER AVERAGING
Chun-Hsien Peng, MediaTek Inc., Taiwan; Kuan-Chang Huang, Chong-Yung Chi, Wing-Kin Ma, Teng-Han Tsai, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
 2 - WORD LENGTH STUDY AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGN OF A K-BEST BASED MIMO-OFDM DETECTOR ALGORITHM
Johanna Kerttula, Markus Myllylä, Markku Juntti, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
 
 3 - OFDM RECEIVER FOR LONG MULTIPATH INTERFERENCES VIA FREQUENCY-DOMAIN IDENTIFICATION APPROACH
Lianming Sun, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan; Akira Sano, Keio University, Japan
 
 4 - A FAST BLIND ADAPTIVE SEPARATION ALGORITHM USING MULTIUSER KURTOSIS MAXIMIZATION CRITERION
Aissa IKHLEF, Supelec, France; Karim ABED-MERAIM, ENST-Paris, France; Daniel LE GUENNEC, Supelec, France
 
 5 - SUBSPACE BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION WITH MULTIPLE RECEIVERS IN REUSE-1 OFDMA SYSTEMS - IMPACT ON DIVERSITY COMBINING AND NULLING
Raghavendra Ramakrishna, Bhashyam Srikrishna, Giridhar Krishnamurthy, IIT Madras, India
 
 6 - A TENSOR-BASED BLIND DS-CDMA RECEIVER USING SIMULTANEOUS MATRIX DIAGONALIZATION
Dimitri Nion, Lieven De Lathauwer, CNRS, France
 
 7 - BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NONLINEAR MULTIUSER CHANNELS USING SECOND ORDER STATISTICS AND MODULATION CODES
Carlos Alexandre Fernandes, Gérard Favier, Laboratory I3S, France; João Cesar Mota, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
 
 8 - REDUCED COMPLEXITY BLIND EQUALIZATION SCHEMES FOR ZP-OFDM SYSTEMS
Rafael Boloix-Tortosa, F. Javier Payan-Somet, Juan Jose Murillo-Fuentes, University of Seville, Spain
 
 9 - SAMPLE SIZE COGNIZANT DETECTION OF SIGNALS IN WHITE NOISE
Raj Nadakuditi, Alan Edelman, MIT, United States
 
 10 - COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR OFDM SYSTEMS USING JOINT DETECTION BASED ON THE M-ALGORITHM
Patrick Nickel, Wolfgang Gerstacker, Wolfgang Koch, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
 
 SESSION W3B: Spread-Spectrum Systems and Ultra-Wideband Radio
 Date: June 20, 2007
 Time: 11:30 - 12:45
 Location: Poster Area 2

 1 - LARGE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MINIMUM OUTPUT ENERGY RECEIVERS FOR DS-CDMA SYSTEMS
Keyvan Zarifi, Alex B. Gershman, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
 
 2 - SPARSE EQUALIZATION IN HIGH DATA RATE WCDMA SYSTEMS
Maarit Melvasalo, Pekka Jänis, Visa Koivunen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 
 3 - BLIND EQUALIZATION OF PPM SIGNALS USING THIRD-ORDER MOMENTS
Patrik Pääjärvi, James P. LeBlanc, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
 
 4 - PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF MINIMUM VARIANCE SINGLE CARRIER AND MULTICARRIER CDMA RECEIVERS
César Medina, Tiago Vinhoza, Raimundo Sampaio-Neto, CETUC, PUC-Rio, Brazil
 
 5 - COMPRESSED DETECTION FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO
Zhongmin Wang, Gonzalo R. Arce, University of Delaware, United States; Jose L. Paredes, University of Los Andes, Venezuela; Brian M. Sadler, Army Research Laboratory, United States
 
 6 - A NEW NON-COHERENT DEMODULATION SCHEME FOR IR-UWB
Yeqiu Ying, Mounir Ghogho, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Ananthram Swami, Army Research Laboratory, United States
 
 7 - COMBINED POWER AND RATE ADAPTATIONS IN DS/CDMA COMMUNICATIONS OVER FADING CHANNELS
YE HOON LEE, Seoul National University of Technology, South Korea; SUN YONG KIM, Konkuk University, South Korea
 
 8 - FINITE-SAMPLE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WIDELY-LINEAR MULTIUSER RECEIVERS FOR DS-CDMA SYSTEMS
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Giacinto Gelli, Luigi Paura, Francesco Verde, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
 

 

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