Advanced Equalization Techniques for Wireless Communications

Call for Papers

With the introduction of personal communications services and digital packet data services, broadband wireless technology has experienced a significant upswing in recent years. To support the fast-growing wireless market, wireless research has to cope with formidable challenges that stem from wireless fading and multipath effects, finite-precision DSP, high signal dimension, and limited device size, to name a few. The goal is to design wireless devices that attain high data rate and high performance at low complexity. To achieve this goal, an essential step is channel equalization.

An ideal equalizer should achieve high performance, high rate, and low complexity. The tradeoffs among these three metrics are fundamental yet challenging in both theoretical analysis and hardware implementation. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address advanced techniques in channel equalization for wireless communications. The guest editors seek high-quality papers on aspects of advanced channel equalization techniques, and value both theoretical and practical research contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Low-complexity equalizers for wireless fading channels, including those that exploit sparsity
  • Iterative equalization and decoding (turbo equalization)
  • Time- and/or frequency-domain equalization for OFDM or single-carrier systems
  • Equalization for rapidly time-varying channels
  • Equalization for MIMO channels
  • Equalization for multiuser systems
  • Equalizers with finite-bit precision
  • Equalization for cooperative relay systems
  • Joint channel estimation and equalization

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueThursday, 01 October 2009
First Round of ReviewsFriday, 01 January 2010
Publication DateThursday, 01 April 2010

Lead Guest Editor

  • Xiaoli Ma, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Guest Editors