IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications IEEE JOURNAL ON

SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS


February 1987, Volume SAC-5, Number 2
SPECIAL ISSUE ON FADING AND MULTIPATH CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS
Guest Editor -- K. Brayer

INTRODUCTION
Guest Editorial -- Fading and Multipath Channel Communications -- A Roadmap
K. Brayer

Fading Channel Issues in System Enginering (Invited Tutorial)
S. Stein

Guest Editorial -- HF Data Transmission: Lessons from the Past, Directions for the Future
K. Brayer


PAPERS
Propagation
250 MHz/GHz Scintillation Parameters in the Equatorial, Polar, and Auroral Environments
S. Basu, E. M. MacKenzie, S. Basu, E. Costa, P. F. Fougere, H. C. Carlson, Jr., and H. E. Whitney

Measured Characteristics of 800/900 MHz Fading Radio Channels with High Angle Propagation Through Moderately Dense Foliage
R. J. C. Bultitude

A Statistical Model for Indoor Multipath Propagation
A. A. M. Saleh and R. A. Valenzuela

Satellite Crosslink Communications Vulnerability in a Nuclear Environment
R. W. Middlestead, R. E. LeLevier, and M. D. Smith

Modulation and Coding
Performance of Meteor-Burst Communication Channels
L. B. Milstein, D. L. Schilling, R. L. Pickholtz, J. Sellman, S. Davidovici, A. Pavelchek, A. Schneider, and G. Eichmann

The Effects of Fading on Antijam Performance Requirements
J. D. Oetting

Trellis Coded Modulation for 4800-9600 bits/s Transmission Over a Fading Mobile Satellite Channel
D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon

Performance of Adaptive Transmission for FH/MFSK Signaling Over Jammed Fading Channels
G. L. Stuber, I. F. Blake, and J. W. Mark

Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Receiver for Communication on Frequency-Selective Fading Channels
H. Ochsner

Coded FH/SS Communications in the Presence of Combined Partial-Band Noise Jamming, Rician Nonselective Fading, and Multiuser Interference
E. Geraniotis and J. W. Gluck

Forward Error Correction Coding for Fading Compensation in Mobile Satellite Channels
J. Hagenauer and E. Lutz

Signal Processing
A Modified Adaptive FIR Equalizer for Multipath Echo Cancellation in FM Transmission
K.-D. Kammeyer, R. Mann, and W. Tobergte

Adaptive Equaliztion Techniques for HF Channels
E. Eleftheriou and D. D. Falconer

Diversity Combining for Channels with Fading and Partial-Band Interference
C. M. Keller and M. B. Pursley

Applications
Capacity of Slotted ALOHA in Rayleigh-Fading Channels
J. C. Arnbak and W. van Blitterswijk

Closed-Space Diversity Antenna for HF Transmission
W. C. Y. Lee

Novel Techniques for Counteracting Multipath Interference Effects in Receiving Systems
E. J. Baghdady

A Multipath RF Propagation Model for Computer Simulation of Complex Impulse Responses of Broadcast Teletext Channels
M. Sablatash, R. K. Tiedemann, and K. W. Moreland


CORRESPONDENCE
A General Model for Signal Level Variability
G. Hufford

Error Probability for Optimal and Suboptimal Quadratic Receivers in Rapid Rayleigh Fading Channels
M. J. Barrett

Adaptive Receiver for Digital Communication Over HF Channels
J. M. perl, A. Shpigel, and A. Reichman

Evaluation of the Comprehension of Noncontinuous Sped-Up Vocoded Speech: A Strategy for Coping with Fading HF Channels
J. T. Lynch


Table of Contents for the April Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Communications