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IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS, VOL. 13, NO. 8, AUGUST 2003

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Guest Editorial Special Issue on 2002 European Conference on Wireless Technology

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HE European Conference on Wireless Technology is a joint initiative of the European Microwave Association (EuMA) together with the IEEE MTT Society. This collaboration, which focuses on the area of wireless technology, started in 1998 at the first European Microwave Week held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the name ECWT was adopted at the 2000 EuMW in Paris, France. The ECWT is an integral part of the European Microwave Week; it emphasizes the RF and microwave aspects of wireless communications, encompassing system design, antennas, propagation, analogue and digital processing techniques and high-frequency circuits for wireless systems. ECWT also includes application-specific integrated circuits and modules. In 2002, the Administrative Committee of the IEEE MTT Society received a proposal from Samir El-Ghazaly, Editorin-Chief of IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS, to devote one special issue of this journal to ECWT. This was enthusiastically accepted and readily implemented with the purpose to make the most distinguished papers of ECWT in that year available to the wider microwave and wireless communities. Held in Milan, Italy, the 2002 European Conference on Wireless Technology was a well attended forum for the presentation and discussion of new developments in the field of wireless communication. This was the fifth year of the Conference and presented sessions on highly relevant technical topics, demonstrating the current state of the art in development and deployment of new wireless systems. This special issue presents further continuing work related to carefully selected papers of the ECWT 2002. These updated versions contain at least 60% new material with respect to the version published in the ECWT’02 Proceedings and have been subject to an additional peer review process.

Referring to the contents of this special issue, the extended ECWT publications capture a broad range of academic and industrial research work in wireless communications from some of the outstanding European research groups in this field. The topics covered range from methods of propagation evaluation to diversity considerations; from DOA estimation to the handling of mixed traffic for UMTS; from high-speed mobile applications to code sectoring methods; and from error-correcting codes related to ultrawideband signaling to the challenges of signal processing algorithms for 3G and beyond. The Guest Editors of this issue of IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS hope you share their enthusiasm for the selected papers. They wish to express their thanks to the Editor-in-Chief, Samir El-Ghazaly, and to the authors, who worked hard on top of their already overloaded schedules to produce the extended papers. They also wish to thank the many reviewers who volunteered their time to provide feedback to the authors and whose suggestions contributed significantly to fine-tuning this special issue.

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JÜERGEN DETLEFSEN, Guest Editor Technische Universität München Munich, Germany [email protected] RICHARD RANSON, Guest Editor Filtronic plc West Yorkshire, U.K. [email protected] ROBERTO SORRENTINO, Guest Editor University of Perugia Perugia, Italy [email protected]

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Jüergen Detlefsen (M’82) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in 1967, the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in 1971 and the Habilitation degree (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in 1978 from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. From 1967 to 1980, he worked in the field of millimeter wave techniques with his main interests in microwave generation by semiconductors, impedance measuring techniques, near field-radar systems, and microwave imaging methods. Since 1980, he has been Professor for “radar systems and radio navigation systems” at the Technische Universität München, where he was appointed in 1988 for the field of “electromagnetic fields and high-frequency circuits”. His research interests are primarily concerned with inverse scattering and microwave optics with special emphasis on industrial applications of microwave imaging such as in the field of robotics and ground-penetration radar. Current research topics are related to automotive applications and comprise electromagnetic sensors and the radio-frequency aspects of communication systems in this environment. He is currently the Chairman of the German URSI Ccommission B and Chairman of the Specialist Division on High Frequency Technology and the expert group on Microwave Techniques of ITG/VDE. Dr. Detlefsen received the Award of the German ITG Society in 1980. In 1987, he received a Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is Chairman of the 2003 European Conference on Wireless Technology, which will be held in Munich in October 2003.

Richard Ranson (M’85–SM’99) was born in Sunderland, U.K. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Leeds, U.K. He has worked in the microwave industry for more than 20 years, engaged in various research and development projects. His experience covers a broad range of designs, specializing in microwave receivers for both commercial and military applications. He worked in the U.S. for 14 years returning to the U.K. in 1996 as an Engineering Director for Filtronic Comtek. He is presently Director of Wireless R&D for Filtronic plc, heading a team developing new concepts for cellular base station hardware, with a particular emphasis on high efficiency linear power amplifiers. Dr. Ranson is a Fellow of the IEE. In 1996, he was a member of the local steering committee for the MTT-S in San Francisco, CA, and was the Digest Editor for that year helping to pioneer the CD-ROM publication for the Conference Digest. He is the MTT European Liaison Representative, co-chair of MTT20, the Technical Coordination Committee for Wireless Communications, and a member of the Steering Committee for the ECWT.

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Roberto Sorrentino (M’77–SM’84–F’90) received the Doctor degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1971. He became an Assistant Professor of Microwaves at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in 1974. He was Adjunct Professor at the University of Catania, the University of Ancona, and the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1977-1982), where he then was an Associate Professor from 1982 to 1986. In 1983 and 1986, he was Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” Since November 1990, he has been a Professor at the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, where he was the Chairman of the Electronics Department, Director of the Computer Center (1990-1995), and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (1995-2001). His research activities have been concerned with various technical subjects, such as the electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media, the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological tissues, but mainly with numerical methods and CAD techniques for passive microwave structures and the analysis and design of microwave and millimeter-wave circuits. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers in international journals and 200 refereed conference papers. He has edited a book for IEEE Press and co-authored a book on advanced modal analysis. Dr. Sorrentino become a Fellow of the IEEE in 1990 “for contribution to the modelling of planar and quasi-planar microwave and millimeter-wave circuits.” In 1993, he was the recipient of the MTT-S Meritorious Service Award. From January 1995 to April 1998, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE MICROWAVE AND GUIDED WAVE LETTERS. In 2000, he was a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. From 1984 to 1987, he was the Chairman of the IEEE Section of Central and South Italy and was the founder of the local MTT/AP Chapter, which he chaired from 1984 to 1987. Since 1998 he has been serving on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is the Chairman of the Technical Committee MTT-1 on Computer-Aided Design. He served the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) as Vice Chair (1993-1996) then Chair (1996-1999) of the Commission D (Electronics and Photonics). Since 1996, he has been the Chairman of the Management Committee of the European Microwave Conference. He was one of the founders of the European Microwave Association (EuMA) and has been its Chairman since its constitution in 1998. In 2002, he was among the founders of the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEm) and was its first President. Since 1998 he has been a member of the High Technical Council of the Italian Ministry of Communications.