Multi-Carrier Spread Spectrum & Related Topics

Stefan Kaiser was the first researcher to address the institutional and legal aspects of the future air navigation systems in a pioneering thesis presented to the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University.

• I General Issues of Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum & Related Topics.- Some Novel Concepts in Multiplexing and Multiple Access.- Wideband Multimedia Solution using Hybrid CDMA/OFDMA/SFH Techniques.- Generalised Multicarrier CDMA for Wireless MUI/ISI-Resilient Uplink Transmissions Irrespective of Frequency Selective Multipath.- Performance Tradeoffs in Asynchronous Spread Spectrum Multi-Carrier Multiple-Access.- II Applications of Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum & Related Topics.- Performance Tradeoffs in Asynchronous Spread Spectrum Multi-Carrier Multiple-Access.- A Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum Approach to Broadband Underwater Acoustic Communications.- A New Combined OFDM-CDMA Approach for Cellular Mobile Communications.- A Digital Microwave Point-to-Multi-Point (PMP) System Based on Multi-Carrier FDMA-Transmission.- A Hybrid TDMA/CDMA System Based on Filtered Multitone Modulation for Upstream Transmission in HFC Networks.- III Coding and Modulation.- On Coding and Spreading for MC-CDMA.- MCM-DSSS with DPSK Modulation and Equal Gain Combining in Delay and Doppler-Spread Rician Fading.- Influence of Code Selection on the Performance of a Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum System.- Complex Valued Block Codes for OFDM-CDMA Application.- Two-Dimensional Differential Demodulation of OFDM Frames.- Block Turbo Coding in OFDM-based HIPERLAN/2 Systems.- The Performance Analysis of Multi-Carrier CDMA Systems Using Different Spreading Codes in Frequency Selective Fading Environments.- IV Detection and Multiplexing.- Each Carrier Transmission Power Control with Antenna-Carrier Diversity for OFDM-DS-CDMA.- A Wavelet-based Multicarrier Spread Spectrum System with Constant Power.- A Subspace Method for Blind Channel Identification in Multi-Carrier CDMA Systems.- Multiuser Detection with Iterated Channel Estimation.- MUD Improvement by using Hexagonal Pilot Distributions for Channel Acquisition and Tracking in MC-CDMA Systems.- Adaptive Multi-Shot Multiuser Detection for Asynchronous MC-CDMA Using Bootstrap Algorithm.- V Interfrence Cancellation.- Blind Adaptive Interference Cancellation for Multicarrier Modulated Systems.- Performance of Downlink MC-CDMA with Simple Interference Cancellation.- Wideband and Narrowband Interference Cancellation for Asynchronous MC-CDMA.- Multiple Access Interference Cancellation in Multicarrier CDMA Systems Using a Subspace Projection Technique.- Interference Cancellation for a Multi-Carrier Spread-Spectrum FCDMA System.- Narrowband Interference Mitigation in OFDM-based WLANs.- Multi-Carrier CDMA using Interference Cancellation.- VI Synchronization and Channel Estimation.- An Overview of MC-CDMA Synchronization Sensitivity.- Blind Frequency Offset/Symbol Timing/Symbol Period Estimation and Subcarrier Recovery for OFDM Signals in Fading Channels.- Doppler Spread Analysis and Simulation for Multi-Carrier Mobile Radio and Broadcast Systems.- Reduced State Joint Channel Estimation and Equalization.- Channel Estimation with Superimposed Pilot Sequence Applied to Multi-Carrier Systems.- A Comparison of Channel Estimation Techniques for OFDM-CDMA and MC/JD-CDMA Systems.- Burst Synchronization for OFDM Systems with Turbo Codes.- Acquisition of Synchronisation Parameters for OFDM Using a Single OFDM Training Symbol.- VII Realization and Implementation.- Implementation of Multicarrier Systems with Polyphase Filterbanks.- On the Improvement of HF Multicarrier Modem Behavior by Using Spread Spectrum Techniques to Combat Fading Channels.- An Improved MMSE based Block Decision Feedback Equalizer.- MC-CDMA vs. DS-CDMA in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions.