CALL FOR PAPERS

                 EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING

                               Special Issue on:

                    Space-Time Coding and Its Applications


Space-time coding for multiple transmit and multiple receive antenna
systems
has recently attracted considerable attention in the wireless
communication
area. It has been shown theoretically that for certain channels the
capacity
of a multiple antenna system increases linearly with the number of
antennas,
which implies that multiple antenna systems have huge  potential
applications
in broadband wireless communications. In a multiple antenna system, a key
step
is  multiple antenna coding and modulation, called space-time coding. In
single antenna systems, the coding and modulation only deals with one by
one
complex symbols or symbol sequences. However, in multiple antenna systems,
the space-time coding deals with M by L complex symbol matrices or matrix
sequences.

In space-time coding, space-time code design is one of the most important
topics. Unlike the conventional single antenna AWGN channel, the multiple
antenna channel is a matrix instead of a scalar even in the simplest case.
So, the space-time code design is more challenging than in single antenna
systems. Concerning a multiple antenna channel, i.e., a multi-input and
multi-output (MIMO) system, there are two cases: the MIMO channel is known
or unknown at the receiver. Since the channel is a complex matrix, signal
processing may play an even more important role than it does in a single
antenna system. When we deal with space-time matrices, the code size may
be
huge and therefore fast decoding algorithms are critically important.
Although a significant amount of work on space-time coding exists already,
there are many more challenging problems remaining to improve multiple
antenna systems and make them work in practice.

The aim of this special issue is to bring researchers in space-time code
design and signal processing together to present innovative results for
potentially achieving improved practical multiple antenna systems.
Prospective papers should be unpublished and present solid research work
offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or
application
point of view.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

        General and orthogonal space-time code designs
        Differential space-time modulation
        Turbo space-time coding
        Fast space-time code decoding algorithms
        MIMO channel estimation
        Space-time code design for MIMO channels with memory
        Space-time coded MIMO channel equalization
        System analysis of a space-time coded system combined with other
        techniques
        Capacity analysis
        Applications of space-time coding in wireless image/video
        communication systems

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the
Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should submit an
electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's
web
submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/, according to the following
timetable.

        Manuscript Due  May 30, 2001
        Acceptance Notification October 15, 2001
        Final Manuscript Due    November 30, 2001
        Publication Date        4th Quarter, 2001

Guest Editors:

Prof.  Dirk Slock       Prof. Vahid Tarokh        Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia
Mobile Comm Dept        Dept. of EECS             Dept. of ECE
EURECOM Institute       MIT                       University of Delaware
2229 route des Cretes   Cambridge, MA 02139       Newark, DE 19716
B.P.193                       USA                       USA
06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
France
slock@eurecom.fr              vahid@mit.edu             xxia@ee.udel.edu

Editorial Board Representative: Prof. A. G. Constantinides
                                Imperial College
                                UK