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		<title><![CDATA[ Communications Magazine, IEEE - new TOC ]]></title>
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		<description>TOC Alert for Publication# 35 </description>
		<year>2009</year>
		<month>October  </month>
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			<title><![CDATA[IEEE Communications Magazine - cover]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Table of contents]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The IEEE Board of Directors: a Division III (Communications) Director's perspective - [the president's page]]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Every two years, IEEE Communications Society members elect their Division III Director-Elect to serve on the IEEE Board of Directors. IEEE Division Directors represent members who belong to one or more IEEE societies. Though the IEEE Division Director role is specifically not to represent particular societies or their members, the ComSoc Board of Governors and the Division III (Communications Technology) Director share a mutual interest in achieving IEEE goals. Thus, the ComSoc bylaws additionally define the Division III Director as a member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Zuckerman, D.;Siller, C.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Society news]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277445]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277445]]></guid>
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			<issue>9</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc: Contributions of Philips to Optical Storage (Peek, H. et al; 2009) [Book Review]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277446]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This book tells the story of the development of the compact disc and its successors. Written by the Philips researchers and developers who participated in the successful and long-running Philips-Sony collaboration, it describes both the history of key technical decisions coupled with intercompany agreements that made possible so many commercially viable products, and the main attributes of the technologies, systems, and standards that resulted.  Although stressing the Philips contributions, the book gives credit to the efforts of other companies.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Weinstein, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conference calendar]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277447]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277447]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[History of Communications]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277448]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Edouard Branly of France may be regarded as one of the very first pioneers in the field of wireless transmission. However, he himself denied being one of the fathers of radio communications; he is more accurately the discoverer of a physical effect (the Branly effect) that gave him the opportunity to devise an efficient wave sensor (the coherer) that permitted the invention of radio. Interestingly, he also contributed to the identification of the role of the aerial. Finally, what is called today the Branly effect is still largely unexplained and constitutes a subject of investigation.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277448]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Schwartz, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global communications newsletter]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277449]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277449]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<title><![CDATA[Certification corner - [The value of training]]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As WCET certification moves into its third testing cycle, we have recognized the desire of individuals and companies for training to help prepare for the exam. A variety of training opportunities are available.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277450]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Frantz, R.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Product highlights]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277451]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277451]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>36</startPage>
			<endPage>36</endPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[Product spotlights]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277452]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277452]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>37</startPage>
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			<title><![CDATA[Radio communications: Components, systems, and networks [Guest Editorial]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277453]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our continuing mission is to increase interest in the Radio Communication Series, and make sure that our readers are presented with relevant and timely material in a tutorial style. As radio communications are encompassing such a wide variety of technical topics, we are looking into contributions and technical activity in all relevant areas, and are seeking contributions from throughout the community of researchers and practitioners. To ensure that we are looking into the most significant topics, among other things, the editors have ventured into conferences and workshops to be in direct touch with potential and current readers.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>38</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Evans, J.B.;Zvonar, Z.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[OFDMA femtocells: a roadmap on interference avoidance - [topics in radio communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277454]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[OFDMA femtocells have been pointed out by the industry as a good solution not only to overcome the indoor coverage problem but also to deal with the growth of traffic within macrocells. However, the deployment of a new femtocell layer may have an undesired impact on the performance of the macrocell layer. The allocation of spectrum resources and the avoidance of electromagnetic interference are some of the more urgent challenges that operators face before femtocells become widely deployed. In this article a coverage and interference analysis based on a realistic OFDMA macro/femtocell scenario is provided, as well as some guidelines on how the spectrum allocation and interference mitigation problems can be approached in these networks. Special attention is paid to the use of self-configuration and self-optimization techniques for the avoidance of interference.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277454]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>41</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Lopez-Perez, D.;Valcarce, A.;de la Roche, G.;Jie Zhang;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Understanding the software communications architecture - [topics in radio communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277455]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Software Communications Architecture is an open architecture developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to standardize the development of software-defined radio, improve communication systems interoperability, and reduce development and deployment costs. The SCA facilitates software reuse and technology insertion by abstracting radio applications from the supporting platform and defining a common operational environment across platforms. The SCA relies on commercial standards, classic software engineering principles, and software design patterns. While some SCA design choices are controversial and tightly tied to the specific needs for which it was developed, the basic design principles of software reuse and abstraction are sound and necessary if SDR is to achieve its full potential. Some of the techniques and concepts used in the SCA may be foreign to a communications engineer, and can result in confusion and long learning curves. The understanding of these concepts is of great relevance for communications engineers independent of any opinion about the SCA itself. This tutorial is aimed at educating communication engineers on these software engineering principles and describing how the SCA applies them to achieve its goals. We describe the different interfaces of the SCA that provide a framework for the implementation of SDR. The tutorial provides introductory material to understand the basic operation of the SCA as implemented in the Open-Source SCA Implementation::Embedded developed by Wireless @ Virginia Tech.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277455]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>50</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Aguayo Gonzalez, C.R.;Dietrich, C.B.;Reed, J.H.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Catching resource-devouring worms in next-generation wireless relay systems: two-way relay and full-duplex relay - [topics in radio communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277456]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In spite of their potential to improve the performance of wireless communication systems, relay-based communication systems face significant challenges, resource wastage. In this article we discuss resource efficiency in relay systems, particularly in two-way and full-duplex relay systems that utilize multiple antennas and improved duplexing to enhance system efficiency. We compare in detail the features, frame structures, performances, advantages and disadvantages, and technical challenges associated with TWRs and FDRs. Using illustrations of quantitative performance, we demonstrate that both of these approaches can efficiently reduce resource wastage in relay-based communication systems.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>58</startPage>
			<endPage>65</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Ju, H.;Oh, E.;Hong, D.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Femtocells [Guest Editorial]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277457]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Femtocells are destined to transform the way mobile operators build their cellular networks and grow their coverage and capacity. Femtocells are small base stations operating in the licensed cellular bands. They are so small and inexpensive, and transmit at such low power, that they are meant to be placed in individual homes and backhauled onto the operator¿s network via conventional digital subscriber line (DSL) or cable broadband access (or, when available, fiber).]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>66</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Chiussi, F.M.;Logothetis, D.;Widjaja, I.;Kataria, D.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Standardization of femtocells in 3GPP - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277458]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Cellular system operators have identified the critical need for standardization of femtocell devices and their associated interfaces into the operators¿ core networks as a critical requirement for the success of femtocell products. Driven by this demand, the UMTS/UTRAN standards community has been undertaking a large-scale and comprehensive effort to specify such standards for femtocell devices and systems that are based on the UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA family of radio access technologies. This article describes those standardization activities and provides an overview for the femtocell system architecture that has been developed within 3GPP.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>68</startPage>
			<endPage>75</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Knisely, D.N.;Yoshizawa, T.;Favichia, F.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Standardization of femtocells in 3GPP2 - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277459]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Driven by the need for multivendor interoperability of femtocell devices and their supporting infrastructure equipment, the cdma2000® standards community has been undertaking a large-scale and comprehensive effort to develop industry standards for femtocell devices and systems based on the cdma2000 family of radio access technologies. This article describes those standardization activities and provides an overview of the femtocell system architecture that has been developed within 3GPP2.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>76</startPage>
			<endPage>82</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Knisely, D.N.;Favichia, F.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[WiMAX femtocell: requirements, challenges, and solutions - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277460]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Femtocells are low-power base stations operating in licensed spectrum, which are typically installed indoors in a house, small office, or home office by end users to provide exclusive or preferential access to a designated group of users as configured by the femtocell subscriber and/or the access provider. Femtocells have gained a lot of attention recently due to their advantages in terms of infrastructure cost saving and improved user experience in indoor environments. Several standards bodies, such as 3GPP, WiMAX Forum, and IEEE 802.16, have started to develop standard solutions to enable and optimize femtocells operation. However, there are some technical challenges to the success of femtocell technologies that need to be overcome before they can be deployed on large scales. This article presents an overview of WiMAX femtocell requirements, deployment models, and solutions in the near and long terms.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>84</startPage>
			<endPage>91</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Kim, R.Y.;Kwak, J.S.;Etemad, K.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[System design of cdma2000 femtocells - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277461]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Femtocells extend the cellular network coverage and provide high speed data service inside homes and enterprises for mobiles supporting existing cellular radio communication techniques. They also provide additional system capacity by offloading macro network traffic. This article reviews the characteristics of cdma2000-based femtocell systems. It discusses design and deployment aspects such as carrier allocation, access control, efficient support for femtocell discovery by idle mobiles, and active call hand-in from macrocell to femtocell. The evolution of the cdma2000 standard for optimizing performance and enriching user experience with femtocells is also discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>92</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Humblet, P.;Raghothaman, B.;Srinivas, A.;Balasubramanian, S.;Patel, C.;Yavuz, M.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Interference management and performance analysis of UMTS/HSPA+ femtocells - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277462]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Femtocells are low-power cellular base stations that operate in licensed spectrum. They are typically deployed indoors to improve coverage and provide excellent user experience, including high data rates. Cellular operators benefit from reduced infrastructure and operational expenses for capacity upgrades and coverage improvements. Femtocells also bring unique challenges, such as unplanned deployment, user installation, restricted access, and interoperability with existing handsets and network infrastructure. Although femtocells may cause some interference to other users in the network, with the use of proper interference management techniques, this can be well controlled. We present interference management techniques for both downlink and uplink of femtocells operating based on 3GPP Release 7 standards (also known as HSPA+). Femtocell carrier selection and femtocell DL Tx power self-calibration are proposed as key interference management methods for downlink. For uplink interference management, adaptive attenuation at the femtocell and limiting the Tx power of the femtocell users are proposed. Different interference models and their analysis are presented. In addition, coverage performance and capacity results are presented to quantify the benefits of femtocells. We demonstrate that in addition to coverage enhancements, significant capacity improvements are achieved on both downlink and uplink when femtocells are deployed in 3G UMTS/HSPA+ networks.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>102</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Yavuz, M.;Meshkati, F.;Nanda, S.;Pokhariyal, A.;Johnson, N.;Raghothaman, B.;Richardson, A.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Autonomous component carrier selection: interference management in local area environments for LTE-advanced - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277463]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Low-power base stations such as femtocells are one of the candidates for high-data-rate provisioning in local areas, such as residences, apartment complexes, business offices, and outdoor hotspot scenarios. Unfortunately, the benefits are not without new challenges in terms of interference management and efficient system operation. Due to the expected large number of user-deployed cells, centralized network planning becomes impractical, and new scalable alternatives must be sought. In this article we propose a fully distributed and scalable solution to the interference management problem in local areas, basing our study case on LTEAdvanced. We present extensive network simulation results to demonstrate that a simple and robust interference management scheme, called autonomous component carrier selection, allows each cell to select the most attractive frequency configuration; improving the experience of all users and not just the few best ones, while overall cell capacity is not compromised.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>110</startPage>
			<endPage>116</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Garcia, L.G.U.;Pedersen, K.I.;Mogensen, P.E.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Femtocell access control strategy in UMTS and LTE - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277464]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Femtocells have become an attractive device for operators to offer extended services on their licensed UMTS/LTE spectrum. In this article we focus on the access control strategy ¿ a crucial aspect for operators to give preferential access to femtocells for their subscribers. The general issue of supporting femtocells in pre-Release 8 UMTS networks with pre-Release 8 UE is first outlined in order to help the reader understand the motivation behind some concepts introduced in 3GPP Release 8 to support femtocells. A description of the femtocell access control strategy for UMTS and LTE is then provided based on 3GPP Release 8 specifications. Finally, the issue of LTE physical cell identity confusion associated with inbound handover to femtocells (which is expected to be resolved within the 3GPP Release 9 timeline) is discussed.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>117</startPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Golaup, A.;Mustapha, M.;Patanapongpibul, L.B.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Early experiences and lessons learned from femtocells - [femtocell wireless communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277465]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a continuous pursuit by mobile operators (MOs) to improve indoor coverage in order not only to improve voice quality but also to enable higher data rates in home/office environments. Indoor coverage improvement, in conjunction with inexpensive (voice) offerings, will enable MOs to compete with and take away voice-call-related revenues from fixed network PTTs and/or VoIP operators. Femtocells constitute a promising solution to address all of the above. In this article we present our experience from our extensive study and trials of early (prestandard) femtocell solutions that were available in the 2007¿2008 timeframe.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>124</startPage>
			<endPage>130</endPage>
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			<authors><![CDATA[Korinthios, G.;Theodoropoulou, E.;Marouda, N.;Mesogiti, I.;Nikolitsa, E.;Lyberopoulos, G.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Topics in integrated circuits for communications [Series Editorial]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277466]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, mobile personal communication devices have converged to a few popular platforms including the smart phone, personal media player, and personal navigation device. More recently, a miniature laptop known as a netbook has also become increasingly widespread. Common in all these devices is the incorporation of multiple communication functions such as personal navigation, personal area networking, local area networking, wireless personal area networking, TV reception, and mobile cellular networking. Moreover, many of these functions are provided via different communications standards; for example, the Global Positioning System (GPS) for personal navigation, IEEE 802.11a/g/n (otherwise known as Wi-Fi) for wireless local area networking, and Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) for wireless personal area networking. In the case of TV broadcasting, standards are well established but extremely fragmented. A short list of digital TV broadcast standards includes DVB-H, DVB-T, ISDB-T, T-DMB, CMMB, and MediaFLO. Cellular standards likewise are still fragmented based on GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/UMTS although the cellular industry is working diligently toward a consolidated fourth-generation system based on Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE).]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277466]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>132</startPage>
			<endPage>133</endPage>
			<fileSize>143</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Chien, C.;Xu, Z.;Molloy, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bridging dream and reality: programmable baseband processors for software-defined radio - [integrated circuits for communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277467]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[A programmable radio baseband signal processor is one of the essential enablers of software- defined radio. As wireless standards evolve, the processing power needed for baseband processing increases dramatically and the underlying hardware needs to cope with various standards or even simultaneously maintaining several radio links. Meanwhile, the maximum power consumption allowed by mobile terminals is still strictly limited. These challenges require both system and architecture level innovations. This article introduces a design methodology for radio baseband processors discussing the challenges and solutions of radio baseband signal processing. The LeoCore architecture is presented here as an example of a baseband processor design aimed at reducing power and silicon cost while maintaining sufficient flexibility.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>134</startPage>
			<endPage>140</endPage>
			<fileSize>257</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Liu, D.;Nilsson, A.;Tell, E.;Wu, D.;Eilert, J.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mobile television receivers: a free-to-air overview - [integrated circuits for communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277468]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[In contrast to mobile television standards such as DVB-H and MediaFLO, the use of existing free-to-air broadcast television in mobile devices is an intriguing concept that has so far garnered little attention. Standards such as DVB-T and analog television broadcast are pervasive worldwide, and their use in mobile applications circumvents many of the deployment challenges facing DVB-H and the like. However, there are severe technical challenges in doing so: mobility, power consumption, antenna performance, and mixer harmonic rejection are just a few of the issues facing the use of free-to-air broadcast in mobile devices. In this article we address these issues, with particular focus on DVB-T digital and NTSC/PAL/SECAM analog broadcast standards.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277468]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>142</startPage>
			<endPage>149</endPage>
			<fileSize>926</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Sheng, S.;]]></authors>
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			<title><![CDATA[Radio transceivers for wireless personal area networks using IEEE802.15.4 - [integrated circuits for communications]]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277469]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[This article describes the design considerations for low-power short-range radio transceivers with a focus on the 2.4 GHz PHY layer defined as part of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The specification requirements for IEEE 802.15.4-compliant transceivers, and the design challenges and practical implementation of a highly-integrated low-power 2.4 GHz transceiver are subsequently discussed. The transceiver uses a direct-conversion receiver with switched antenna diversity and a transmitter using direct closedloop VCO modulation. It integrates a mask-programmable radio controller capable of autonomously performing timing-critical MAC functions, and a sleep timer. Implemented in 0.18 &#x003BC;m RFCMOS technology with a chip area of less than 6 mm<sup>2</sup>, the transceiver achieves a link margin of 99 dB while drawing 16.8 mA and 18 mA from a 1.8 V supply in receive and transmit mode, respectively.]]></description>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
			<guid><![CDATA[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5277441&arnumber=5277469]]></guid>
			<volume>47</volume>
			<issue>9</issue>
			<startPage>150</startPage>
			<endPage>158</endPage>
			<fileSize>752</fileSize>
			<authors><![CDATA[Retz, G.;Shanan, H.;Mulvaney, K.;O'mahony, S.;Chanca, M.;Crowley, P.;Billon, C.;Kalimuddin Khan, M.;Lopez Orive, J.;Quinlan, P.;]]></authors>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[September  2009]]></pubDate>
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			<volume>47</volume>
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