Advances in Smart Antennas

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EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
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  Special Issue on
  Advances in Smart Antennas

Smart antennas have emerged as a key technology for third and
higher generations of wireless communication systems because they
add a new spatial dimension to the currently used time,
frequency, and code multiple access technologies. The recent past
of 3G wireless systems licensing process in Europe has shown that
spectral bandwidth may cost billions of euro to wireless system
providers. In light of this fact, smart antennas offer an elegant
and relatively inexpensive opportunity of increasing system
capacity, number of users served, and quality of service. Today
developments and progress in this strategic area are far away
from cost efficient practical implementation and a large amount
of both theoretical and experimental study is of great demand to
enable future successful applications of smart antennas.

The aim of this special issue is to present recent research in
smart antennas from multiple points of view with focus on future
applications in the area of wireless communications. Prospective
papers should be unpublished and present novel, fundamental
research offering innovative contributions either from a
methodological or an application perspective.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 - Beamforming
 - Space-time coding
 - Channel estimation and equalization
 - Synchronization
 - MIMO systems
 - Cellular systems
 - Design and implementation aspects
 - Architectures and networking
 - Channel measurements and modeling
 - Antenna array hardware

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format
described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's web submission
system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/, according to the following
timetable.

 Manuscript Due            May 31, 2003
 Acceptance Notification   November 30, 2003
 Final Manuscript Due      February 28, 2004
 Publication Date          3rd Quarter, 2004

GUEST EDITORS:

Andreas Czylwik, Department of of Comm. Systems, Faculty of
Engineering, Gerhard Mercator University, Bismarckstr. 81, 47057
Duisburg, Germany; czylwik@sent5.uni-duisburg.de

Alex Gershman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, L8S4K1 Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada; gershman@ieee.org

Thomas Kaiser, Department of of Comm. Systems, Faculty of
Engineering, Gerhard Mercator University, Bismarckstr. 81, 47057
Duisburg, Germany; thomas.kaiser@uni-duisburg.de

EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Jerry M. Mendel, Signal and Image Processing Institute, 3740
McClintock Ave, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
CA 90089, USA; mendel@sipi.usc.edu

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