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EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
                          
  Special Issue on

  Implementation Aspects and Testbeds for MIMO Systems
  
  Call for Papers

MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems have emerged as 
a key technology for wireless local area networks (WLAN), wireless 
metropolitan area networks (WMAN), and cellular mobile communication
systems (3G, 4G) because they promise greater coverage, higher data
rates, and improved link robustness by adding a spatial dimension 
to the time, frequency, and code dimensions. Recent progress in 
standardization and first MIMO prototype chipsets force manufacturers
worldwide to pay more attention to MIMO implementation aspects. 
Moreover, MIMO testbeds become more and more attractive
to universities and research institutes as has been observed
in the past few years. The aim of this special issue is to reflect
the current state of the art of MIMO testbeds and to point out the
numerous MIMO implementation challenges for current and future 
wireless communication standards.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 o Antenna arrays (topology, coupling, size limitations, 
   cross-polarization, multiband capability) 
 o Multichannel analog front ends (transceiver architectures, 
   power consumption, low complexity, high-scale integration, 
   enabling technologies)
 o Multichannel digital front ends (RF impairment cancelation,
   AD conversion, synchronization) 
 o Baseband signal processing (implementation, suboptimum algorithms,
   soft/hardware partitioning) 
 o Cross-layer issues (scheduling, power allocation, quality
   of service, protocol design, channel aware optimization, power 
   conscious optimization) 
 o System level aspects (capacity enhancement, coverage extension,
   diversity/multiplex trade-offs) 
 o Overall complexity versus performance evaluations 

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format
described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com.eg/asp/.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript
tracking system at journal's web site, according
to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            December 1, 2004
  Acceptance Notification   April 1, 2005
  Final Manuscript Due      August 1, 2005
  Publication Date          4th Quarter, 2005 

GUEST EDITORS:

Andrˆ Bourdoux, DESICS Division, IMEC vzw, Kapeldreef 75, 
3001 Leuven, Belgium; andre.bourdoux@imec.be

Thomas Kaiser, Dept. of Communication Systems, Faculty 
of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Bismarckstr. 81, 47057
Duisburg, Germany; thomas.kaiser@uni-duisburg.de.

Markus Rupp, TU Wien, Institute for Communications and RF 
Engineering, Gusshausstr. 25/389, 1040 Wien,
Austria; mrupp@nt.tuwien.ac.at.

Ulrich Heute, Institute for Circuits and Systems Theory, Faculty
of Engineering (Building D), Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel,
Kaiserstrabe 2, 24143 Kiel-Gaarden, Germany; uh@tf.uni-kiel.de.

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