Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic for Personal Communications

Preface. Distributed Discrete Power Control in Cellular PCS; M. Andersin, et al. Congestion Measures and Capacity Constraints in Spread Spectrum Networks; S. Hanly. Channel Control and Multiple-Access; R. Knopp, P.A. Humblet. On the Effect of Chip Synchronization Error in MC-CDMA Systems; L. Tomba, W.A. Krzymien. Coded Modulations and Diversity for Satellite Cellular Communications; E. Biglieri, et al. Multicode High-Speed Transmission with Interference Cancellation for Wireless Personal Communications; M. Chan, J.C-I Chuang. Packet Access for Cellular Systems: The Capacity of S-Aloha and CDPA with Slow Varying Shadowing; M. Zorzi, et al. Dynamic Slot Allocation for TDMA-Systems with Packet Access; T. Benkner. Design and Evaluation of an RRA Scheme for Voice-Data Channel Access in Outdoor Microcellular Wireless Environments; A. Cleary, M. Paterakis. Design and Evaluation of Paging Strategies for Personal Communications; D. Goodman, et al. Database Architectures and Location Strategies for Mobility Management in Mobile Radio Systems; N. Tabbane, S. Tabbane. Infinite Server Traffic Models for CDMA Cellular Mobile Networks; J. Evans, D. Everitt. Modeling Priority Traffic and Hot Spots in Wireless PCS Systems; M.L. Merani. A Satellite-Augmented Cellular Network Concept; D. Ayyagari, A. Ephremides. Recent Developments of Adaptive Air Interfaces; K. David. Feasibility Study for a GSM Private Cordless Base Station Based on Total Frequency Hopping; M. Kuusela, et al. On Satellite Path Diversity for GSM Rate Compatible TDMA Big LEOs; T.E. Wisloff. An Optimal Channel Allocation Algorithm in a Linear Cellular Reuse Partitioning Networks; P.P. Bhattacharya, L. Tassiulas. The Delta-Adjusted Mth Order Multiuser Detector; L.L. Yang, R.A. Scholtz. Non-Coherent Diversity Receivers for Mobile and Personal Satellite Communications; D. Markrakis, et al. Interference Adaptive Multiple Access in a Multi Access Port Radio System; C. Roobol. Time-Frequency Slicing with Distributed-Queueing Request Update Multiple Access for Multi-Rate Wireless Packet (ATM) Networks; Z. Liu, et al. Routing in an ATM-Based Mobile Network; I. Katzela, M. Veeraraghaven. Optimization of Capture in Multiple Access Radio Systems with Rayleigh Fading and Random Power Levels; R.O. LaMaire, et al. A New Medium Access Control Protocol for Integrated Traffic Personal Communication Networks; D. Markrakis, et al. A Call-Level Access Control Strategy for Integrated Services Wireless Packet Networks; F. Davoli, et al.

The success of first and second generation wireless systems has paved the way for further research opportunities towards the next generation systems. The two standards GSM and IS-95 based on TDMA and CDMA respectively, have deeply influenced our system-level understanding, bringing new perspectives on the problems associated with wireless networks and potential for innovations. This volume presents the proceedings of the second workshop on multiaccess, mobility and teletraffic for personal communications held in May 1996 in Paris, France where some important subjects on the next generation systems have been treated. These include topics dealing with information theoretic aspects, channel modeling, diversity, interference control, resource allocation, power control, packet multi-access, stochastic modeling of mobility and traffic, and wireless network control. The selected topics in this workshop and their presented set of solutions reflect the richness of the problems in wireless communications. Indeed, development of theoretical frameworks with considerable attention to the peculiar environment of wireless communications has been the prime objective of this workshop. To elaborate, consider the problem of multi-access methods which remains a challenge for researchers. A complete evaluation of an access scheme must consider different aspects such as propagation, interference, mobility and traffic modeling. Some common bases, paradigms and models are needed. For example, today, we do not have a common archetype like the A WGN channel as in classical statistical communication. Clearly, there is a need for justified assumptions and models.