SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS

SATELLITE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES FOR TRAVELERS

Guest Editors -- A. D. Kucar, S. Kato, Y. Hirata, and O. Lundberg

Guest Editorial

A. D. Kucar, S. Kato, Y. Hirata, and O. Lundberg

Channel Modeling and Simulation in Satellite Mobile Communication systems

B. Vucetic and J. Du

Narrowband Channel Statistics from Multiband Propagation Measurements Applicable to High Elevation Angle Land Mobile Satellite Systems

G. Butt, B. G. Evans, and M. Richharia

Statistical Observations of Data Transmission Over Land Mobile Satellite Channels

J. P. Castro

On the Representation of CPM Signals by Linear Superposition of Impulses in the Bandpass Domain

P. Jung and P. W. Baier

Multifrequency Minimum Shift Keying

S. M. Fleisher and S. Qu

Trellis Coding of Quadrature Frequency/Phase Modulated Signals

S. S. Periyalwar and S. Fleisher

Performance and Jitter Analysis of Quadrature Partial Response/Trellis Coded Modulation (QPR-TCM) Signals in the Presence of Intersymbol Interference and Colored Noise

O. N. Ucan, U. Aygolu, and E. Panayirci

DSD (Double Soft Decision) Concatenated FEC Scheme in Mobile Satellite Communication Systems

S. Honda, S. Kubota, and S. Kato

Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation of Quadrature Pulse-Overlapping Modulated Signals for Portable/Mobile Satellite Communications

S. B. Slimane and T. Le-Ngoc

Symbol-Aided Plus Decision-Directed Reception for PSK/TCM Modulation on Shadowed Mobile Satellite Fading Channels

G. T. Irvine and P. J. McLane

Multipath Reduction Using Constant Modulus Conjugate Gradient Techniques

S. D. Gray

A New Carrier Recovery Circuit for Land Mobile Satellite Communication

K. Kobayashi, T. Sakai, S. Kubota, M. Morikura, and S. Kato

A Spectrum- and Power-Efficient EHF Mobile Satellite System to be Integrated with Terrestrial Cellular Systems

C. Caini, G. E. Corazza, G. Falciasecca, M. Ruggieri, and F. Vatalaro

A Multirate Digital Multicarrier Demodulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation

F. Ananasso, G. Chiassarini, E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, D. Rousset, and E. Saggese

A Measurement-Based Prioritization Scheme for Handovers in Mobile Cellular Networks

S. Tekinay and B. Jabbari

Protocol Design for Mobile Radio Group Communications Over Satellite

V. C. M. Leung

Global Network Operations and Management

Code Division Multiple Access Networks

Quality of Telecommunications Services, Networks, and Products