A Tight Upper Bound on the Average Mutual Information in Correlated Rayleigh Fading MIMO Channels Filip Mikas1, 2, Jari Salo2, Pertti Vainikainen2 1 Czech Technical University of Prague, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Technicka 2, Prague 6, 166 27, Czech Republic, Phone: +420 2 24352910, Email: mikasf-feld.cvut.cz 2 Helsinki University of Technology, Radio Laboratory, P.O. Box 3000, FI-0201

Impact of Carrier Frequency Dependent Power Amplifier Behavior on 802.11a WLAN System J. Liu, H. Arslan, L.P. Dunleavy, A. Webster Center of Wireless and Microwave Information Systems Department of Electrical Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, FL 33620 Email: jliu7-eng.usf.edu Jim Paviol Conexant Systems, Inc. 2401 Palm Bay Road Building 62 Palm Bay, FL 32905 Email: ji

AN INTEGRATED CMOS INTERFERENCE CANCELLER FOR MIMO SYSTEMS E. Gebara1, M. M. Tentzeris1,2, and J. Laskar1,2 Quellan, Inc., 75 5th Street N.W. suite 210, Atlanta, GA 30308, U.S.A. E-mail: edward-quellan.com, Phone: + (1) 404 817-7677, Fax: + (1) 404 817-7731 2 Georgia Electronics Design Center, School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0269, U.S.A Abstract -- In this work, w

Estimation of the Direction of Arrival of Broadband Signals using a Single Snapshot R. Fern´ ndez-Recio1 , L.E. Garc´a-Castillo1 , T.K. Sarkar2 and M. Salazar-Palma3 a i 1 Universidad de Alcal´ , Departamento de Teor´a de la Se~ al y Comunicaciones, Escuela Polit´ cnica, a i n e 28806 Alcal´ de Henares, Madrid, Spain rfernandezrecio-yahoo.es a 2 Syracuse University, Department of Electrical Engin

A comparison between Free Space Optics and 70 GHz short haul links behavior based on propagation model and measured data D. Mandich Alcatel Italia, Mobile Communication Group, via Trento 30 - 20059 Vimercate ( MI ) ­ Italy dalmazio.mandich-alcatel.it Abstract -- Free Space Optic (FSO) has been confirmed as a valid alternative technology [1] that gives the opportunity to implement in a very quick w

Dual Polarized Microstrip Patch Antenna, Reduced in Size by Use of Peripheral Slits Dimitris T. Notis, Phaedra C. Liakou and Dimitris P. Chrissoulidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, PO Box 1562, GR-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece;Tel./Fax: 30-2310-996334; dpchriss-auth.gr Abstract A two-port, meandered, square, microstrip patch antenna is inves

A Practical Medium Access Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Employing ESPAR Antennas Mathieu Lenoble, Thomas Hunziker, Tomoyuki Aono, and Takashi Ohira ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan Phone: +81-774-95-1589 Fax: +81-774-95-1508 e-mail: {mathieu, hunziker}-atr.jp Abstract-- Cochannel interference limits the capacity of wireless ad ho

Modeling indoor propagation using an indirect hybrid method combining the UTD and the FDTD methods S´ bastien Reynaud1 , Christophe Guiffaut1 , Alain Reineix1 , Rodolphe Vauzelle2 e 2 University 1 University of Limoges, IRCOM, UMR CNRS 6615, 123 avenue Albert Thomas, 87000 Limoges of Poitiers, SIC, FRE CNRS 2731, Boulevard Marie et Pierre Curie, 86360 Chasseneuil-du-Poitou E-Mail : sebastien.reyn

A Novel Circularly Polarized Textile Antenna for Wearable Applications Maciej Klemm, Ivo Locher, Gerhard Tröster Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Gloriastrasse 35, 8092 Zürich (Switzerland) Phone: +4116325191, Fax: +4116321210 {klemm, ilocher, troester}-ife.ee.ethz.ch ABSTRACT -- A novel circularly polarized (CP) textile patch antenna is presented in this paper. To our knowledge, it is the fir

A SiGe HBT Variable Gain Amplifier with 80 dB Control Range for Applications up to 3 GHz Niall Byrne1, Patrick J. Murphy2, Kevin G. McCarthy2, Brendan Foley3 2 Farran Technology, Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland, Tel: +353-21-4872814 Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. 3 RF Integration Inc., 150 Industrial Avenue East Lowell, MA 01852, USA. attenuators [7]