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R. Murch, Publication Editor Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong T. S. RAPPAPORT Univ. of Texas at Austin

ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION A. F. MOLISCH, AREA EDITOR Univ. of Southern California C.-C. CHONG DOCOMO USA LABS X. GAO Southeast Univ. China S. GHASSEMZADEH AT&T Labs - Research M. O. PUN Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. (MERL) H. SHIN Kyung Hee Univ. F. TUFVESSON Lunds Univ. M. WIN Massachusetts Inst. of Technology J. WU Univ. of Arkansas C. YANG Beihang Univ. T. ZEMEN FTW. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGYI Y. LI, AREA EDITOR Georgia Institute of Technology S. AFFES INRS-EMT M. BHATNAGAR Indian INstitute of Technology D. DARDARI Univ. of Bologna at Cesena Y. C. KO Korea Univ.

Y. LI NICTA D. REYNOLDS West Virginia Univ. S. SFAR Interdigital Communications M. TORLAK Univ. of Texas at Dallas S. WEI Louisiana State Univ. W. ZHANG Univ. of New South Wales

TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGYII H. JAFARKHANI, AREA EDITOR Univ. of California-Irvine A. CHOCKALINGAM Indian Institute of Science A. GHRAYEB Concordia Univ. A. KWASINSKI Rochester Institute of Technology K. B. LEE Seoul National Univ. T. J. LI Lehigh Univ. Y. MAO University of Ottawa A. NOSRATINIA Univ. of Texas at Dallas A. SEZGIN Ulm Univ. D. TUNINETTI Univ. of Illinois at Chicago G. YUE NEC Laboratories America

TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGYIII R. K. MALLIK, AREA EDITOR Indian Inst. of Technology, Delhi M. ARDAKANI Univ. of Alberta S. BHASHYAM Indian Inst. of Technol., Madras X. DONG Univ. of Victoria M. J. HOSSAIN INRS-EMT K. S. KIM Yonsei Univ. X. MA Georgia Inst. of Technology M. MCKAY Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology N. C. SAGIAS Univ. of Peloponnese, Greece Y. SANADA Keio Univ. Z. WANG Tsinghua Univ. Y. J. ZHANG Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong CROSS-LAYER DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION V. K. N. LAU, AREA EDITOR Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology G. ABREU Univ. of Oulu S. AISSA Univ. du Quebec S. BAHK Seoul National Univ.

EDITORS

K. B. LETAIEF, Chair Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology

W. CHOI Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol. M. C. GURSOY Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Z. HAN Univ. of Houston D. NIYATO Nanyang Technological Univ. P. POPOVSKI Aalborg Univ. J. M. SHEA Univ. of Florida G. SONG SiBEAM Inc. H. YOUSEFIZADEH Univ. of California-Irvine WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS THEORY AND SYSTEMS C. TELLAMBURA, AREA EDITOR Univ. of Alberta S. BLOSTEIN Queens Univ. J. COON Toshiba Telecomm. Research Lab. L. DENIERE Univ. of Nice A. GULLIVER Univ. of Victoria Y. JING Univ. of Alberta H. LIN Osaka Prefecture Univ. J. LUO Colorado State Univ. L. SANGUINETTI Univ. of Pisa

G. WUNDER Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Inst. X.-G. XIA Univ. of Delaware

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MULTIPLE ACCESS G. BIANCHI, AREA EDITOR Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata E. HOSSAIN, PAST AREA EDITOR Univ. of Manitoba C. F. CHIASSERINI Politecnico di Torino S. CUI Texas A&M Univ. N. DEVROYE Univ. of Illinois at Chicago N. KATO Tohoku Univ., Japan S. LIEW Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong S. MAO Auburn Univ. M. L. MERANI Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia M. ROSSI Univ. of Padova S. VALAEE Univ. of Toronto P. WANG Nanyang Technological Univ. WIRELESS NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS T. HOU, AREA EDITOR Virginia Tech A. ABOUZEID Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.

L. CAI Univ. of Victoria Y. CHEN Stevens Inst. of Technology Y. GUAN Iowa State Univ. J. HUANG Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong B. KRISHNAMACHARI Univ. of Southern California B. LIANG Univ. of Toronto L. LIBMAN Univ. of Sydney S. SHAKKOTTAI Texas A&M Univ. D. TARCHI Univ. of Florence G. ZUSSMAN Columbia Univ.

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