Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum 2007, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007 Proceedings from the 6th International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum, May 2007,Herrsching, Germany Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series, Vol. 1

Since the principle of multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) was simultaneously proposed by Khaled Fazel et al. and Nathan Yee et al. at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) in the year 1993, multi-carrier spread spectrum (MC-SS) has rapidly become one of the most wide spread independent research topics on the field of mobile radio communications. Therefore, the International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum (MC-SS) was initiated in the year 1997. Multi-carrier and spread spectrum systems with their generic air interface and adaptive technologies are considered as potential candidates to fulfill the requirements of next generation mobile communications systems. The material summarized in this volume was selected for the 6th International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum (MC-SS 2007) held in Herrsching, Germany from 07-09 May 2007. The workshop was organized by the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. During the workshop, many hot topics in the field of MC-SS were covered. First, several presentations regarding General Issues were given. Iterative Decoding strategies were also discussed. Furthermore, a special session was addressed on Interleave Multiple Division Access (IDMA). In the areas of Spectrum and Interference, Data Transmission, Adaptive Transmission, Multiple Antennas, Multi-Cell and Multi-Link, and Synchronization and Tracking new and innovative algorithms, strategies, and systems were proposed. Finally, a dominant hot topic during this workshop was the problem of Channel Estimation.

Frequency-Domain Equalization for Block CDMA Transmission.- Different Guard Interval Techniques for OFDM: Performance Comparison.- An Analysis of OFDMA, Precoded Ofdma and SC-FDMA for the Uplink in Cellular Systems.- Influence of a Cyclic Prefix on the Spectral Power Density of Cyclo-Stationary Random Sequences.- Downlink Scheduling for Multiple Antenna Multi-Carrier Systems with Dirty Paper Coding Via Genetic Algorithms.- Exit-Chart Analysis of Iterative Space-Time-Frequency Coded Multi-Carrier Receivers.- Interleaver for High Parallelizable Turbo Decoder.- Multi-User Detection Techniques for Potential 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) Schemes.- Analysis and Performance of an Efficient Iterative Detection Strategy for IDMA Systems.- Joint Navigation & Communication based on Interleave-Division Multiple Access.- Out-Of-Band Radiation in Multicarrier Systems: A Comparison.- Mitigation of Dynamically Changing NBI in OFDM Based Overlay Systems.- Cancellation of Digital Narrowband Interference for Multi-Carrier Systems.- RAKE Reception for Signature-Interleaved DS CDMA in Rayleigh Multipath Channel.- Accurate BER of MC-DS-CDMA over Rayleigh fading channels.- OFDM/OQAM for Spread-Spectrum Transmission.- A Multi-Carrier Downlink Transmitter for Leo Satellite.- A New Dynamic Partial Precoding Technique for Mc-Cdma Systems Employing Psk Modulation.- The Influence of Link Adaptation in Multi-User OFDM.- Adaptive Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum with Dynamic Time-Frequency Codes for UWB Applications.- Radio Resource Allocation in Mc-Cdma Under QOS Requirements.- Performance of Cyclic Delay Diversity in Ricean Channels.- Downlink Performance of MC-CDMA Systems with Spatial Phase Codes in Fading Channels.- Doppler-Compensation for OFDM-Transmission by Sectorized Antenna Reception.- On the Receive Signal Dynamics in Energy Efficient MIMO OFDM Multi-User Mobile Radio Downlinks.- DOA Estimation for MC-CDMA Uplink Transmissions.- The Cellular Alamouti Technique.- Iterative Intercell Interference Cancellation for DL MC-CDMA Systems.- Positioning with Generalized Multi-Carrier Communications Signals.- Joint Channel Tracking and Phase Noise Compensation for OFDM in Fast Fading Multipath Channels.- Estimation of Sampling Time Misalignments in Ifdma Uplink.- Combined time and frequency domain OFDM channel estimation.- Design and Performance Analysis of Low-Complexity Pilot-Aided OFDM Channel Estimators.- A Study on Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems using EM Algorithm based on Multi-Path Doppler Channel Model.- Channel Estimation for Block-IFDMA.- Robust time domain channel estimation for MIMO-OFDMA Downlink System.- Joint Iterative Channel Estimation and Soft-Chip Combining for a Mimo MC-CDMA Antijam System.- Pilot Design for MIMO-OFDM with Beamforming.- Channel estimation by exploiting sublayer information in OFDM systems.- Joint Data Detection and Channel Estimation for Uplink MC-CDMA Systems over Frequency Selective Channels.- On the Performance of MC-CDMA Systems with Partial Equalization in the Presence of Channel Estimation Errors.- Cross-Coupled Rao-Blackwellized Particle and Kalman Filters for the Joint Symbol-Channel Estimation in MC-DS-CDMA Systems.- Kalman Vs H? Algorithms for MC-DS-CDMA Channel Estimation with or without a Priori ar Modeling.

Stefan Kaiser was the first researcher to address the institutional and legal aspects of the future air navigation systems in a pioneering thesis presented to the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University.

Presents comprehensive state-of-the-art articles about multi-carrier spread spectrum techniques Discusses multi-carrier spread spectrum techniques as very strong candidates for next generation wireless communications systems Provides the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum (MC-SS 2007), 7-9 May 2007, held in Herrsching, Germany