Mobile and Wireless Communications, 2003 IFIP TC6 / WG6.8 Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC’2002) October 23–25, 2002, Singapore IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 106

Mobile and Wireless Communications presents the latest developments in mobile and wireless research and the industry, with a broad range of topics including:

-Ad-hoc networking;
-Power control;
-Personal communications;
-Satellite;
-QoS;
-UMTS and wireless LANs;
-Handoffs, security and mobility;
-CDMA and physical layer including modulation and coding;
-Methods of communication functions including multiple access, error control, flow control and routing.

This state-of-the-art volume comprises the edited proceedings of the Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC'2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), organized by IFIP Working Group 6.8, and held in Singapore in October 2002.

1 Power Control / MIMO Receiver Algorithm.- Second-Order Statistics of Closed-Loop Power Controlled Signals in Multi-Path Rayleigh Fading Channels.- Performance Comparison of Multiple-Transmit Multiple-Receive V-BLAST Algorithms.- 2 Ad-Hoc Networking.- Market-based Network Formation for an Ad Hoc, P2P Wireless Network.- An Efficient Proactive Routing Method for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Using Peer-to-Peer and Cellular Communication System.- A Mobile Multicast Framework for CDMA-based Ad Hoc Networks.- Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna.- A Reactive Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments.- 3 Personal Wireless Communications.- Bluetooth PAN and External IP Networks.- DTV for Personalized Mobile Access and Unified Home Control.- A Novel Internet Radio Service for Personal Communications; The Private Channel Service.- Tools for On-Door Communications on WWW.- 4 Buffer Control/Receiver.- Buffer Control Using Adaptive MQAM for Wireless Channels.- A Low Complexity Iterative Receiver Based on Successive Cancellation for MIMO.- 5 Satellites/High Altitude Platforms Station.- Dedicated Bandwidth Approach for Channel Allocation in a Multi-Service Up/Down Link of a Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellation.- Softer Handover Schemes for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) UMTS.- 6 Quality of Service QoS.- Adaptive QoS and Handover Issues in Wireless Multimedia Networks Using a Dynamic Adaptive Architecture: DYNAA.- Dynamic QoS Guarantee with Repeater in Power Controlled WCDMA Urban Environment.- 7 UMTS/Wireless LANs.- Very Tight Coupling of Wireless LANs and UMTS Networks: A Technical Challenge and an Opportunity for Mobile Operators.- Dynamic UMTS Simulator for Congestion Studies and Evaluation of Resource Management Techniques.- Capacity and Coverage Increase with Repeaters in UMTS.- Pre-Authenticated Fast Handoff in a Public Wireless LAN Based on IEEE 802.1x Model.- Service Integration Multiple Access (SIMA) A Protocol for Supporting Voice & Data in Wireless LANs.- Spatial Variation of Digital Television Signal in an Indoor Environment.- 7.1 Security.- Development of a Strong Stream Ciphering Technique Using Non-Linear Fuzzy Logic Selector.- 8 Multiple Access Techniques.- Wireless MAC Scheme for Service Differentiation A Distributed Protocol.- Packet Acquisition Evaluation of Slotted Spread ALOHA Data Networks.- 9 Code Division Multiple Access CDMA.- On Erlang Capacity of CDMA Systems.- Power and Spreading Gain Allocation in CDMA Data Networks for Services with a Relative Priority.- Adaptive Closed-Loop Power Control Using an MMSE Receiver in DS-CDMA Systems.- CORDIC Based QRD-RLS Adaptive Equalizer for CDMA Systems.- Resource Allocation Using Dynamic Spreading Gain Control for Wideband CDMA Networks Supporting Multimedia Traffic.- 9.1 Turbo Code.- On the Fixed-Point Implementation of Turbo Code in 3G System.- 10 Mobility.- Cellular Positioning by Database Comparison and Hidden Markov Models.- Architectural Considerations for Personal Mobility in the Wireless Internet.- A Development of Flexible Access Control System for Advanced ITS Networking.- Ubiquitous Access to Personalised Services.