WSEAS TRANS. on COMMUNICATIONS, August 2006

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS Call Admission Control of Hierarchical CDMA Networks for Intelligent Transportation Systems 1295 Shun-Ping Chung, Jhih-Dao Jhan on COMMUNICATIONS Efficient Blind Signal Separation in Dynamic Environment Employing Novel ICA Technique 1303 Thomas Yang, Wasfy Mikhael Issue 8, Volume 5, August 2006 A Novel Iterative Channel Estimation ISSN Algorithm1109-2742 for OFDM http://www.wseas.org Systems 1309 Haiyuan Liu, Taiyi Zhang, Yatong Zhou

Prediction of Macrobending and Splice Losses for Photonic Crystal Fibers based on the Effective Index 1314 Method G. S. Kliros, J. Konstantinidis, C. Thraskias

Downlink throughput Maximization in Multicarrier Wireless Communications Systems 1322 Youssef Fakhri, Josep Vidal, Driss Aboutajdine, Benayad Nsiri

Empirical Path Loss Model and WiMAX Field Measurements in Urban and Suburban Environment 1328 Andrej Hrovat, Tomaz Javornik, Sreco Plevel, Roman Novak, Tine Celcer, Igor Ozimek

Machine Learning from Distributed Databases: Study of a Disease Prediction 1335 Horea Adrian Grebla, Grigor Moldovan, Smaranda Cosma

Distribution of Temperature in Pulsed RF Waveguide CO2 Laser 1342 A. Rauf, Jianguo Xin

Scalable Real Time Video Transmission over Industrial Ethernet Networks 1347 F. Perez, M. Mateos, P. Iriondo, D. Orive

Autonomic Computing Systems: Using AI Techniques for the Development of Agents in the Network 1353 Management Domain Analucia Schiaffino Morales De Franceschi, Karen Selbach Borges, Ricardo Moraes, Francisco Vasques

3G Wireless Video with Full Interactive Multicast Services 1361 Kostas E. Psannis

Interactive Media Streaming over High Speed Wireless Channel 1369 Kostas E. Psannis, Marios G. Hadjinicolaou

Service Differentiations with Dynamic Jamming-length Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 1376 Yang-Jing Wu, Po-Chang Hu, Tsang-Ling Sheu

Building an Efficient Architecture for Data Synchronization on Mobile Wireless Agents 1384 Adrian Sergiu Darabant, Horea Todoran

Comparison of S-MAC and T-MAC Protocols for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks 1392 Woochul Lee, Yutae Lee, Soonghee Lee, Dongil Kim

A Robust CD3-OFDM Receiver Architecture for DSRC Systems 1400 Shih-Kai Lee, Han-Wei Chen, Meng-Hsiang Lin, Yung-An Kao

Concepts of Safety Networks in Industries 1407 Borcsok J. Schwarz, M. H. Holub P

Concepts of Safety Networks in Industries – Part II 1414 Borcsok J., Ugljesa E. Holub P.

Timing-Variant Channel Analysis and Estimation for OFDM Systems 1420 Yung-An Kao, Chien-Hsin Hsu

Reduced Lumped Element 3dB 1800 Wilkinson Dividers with Positive and Negative Phase Shifters 1427 Iwata Sakagami, Keisuke Izumi, Masafumi Fujii, Tuya Wuren

OPC with Redundancy 1433 Pavan Kumar Pendli, Vadim Gorbatchev, Michael Schwarz, Josef Borcsok

Random Feed Errors in Phased Array Antennas 1439 Nikos J. Farsaris, Thomas D. Xenos

Design and Evaluation of a New Overlay Multicast Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks 1447 Ju-Il Lee, Young-Chul Shim

A Parallel Packet Switch Architecture with Input-output-queued Switches and Buffering in the 1455 Demultiplexors Yi Dai, Zhi-Gang Sun, Jin-Shu Su

Security and Bandwidth Elasticity Aspects of the CWDM/TDM-PON Network 1461 Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos

Design of a Reduced Communication Protocol for FC-TRSN 1469 Lei Yanjing, Kang Jichang, Zheng Kui, Yin Xiaoyan

Blueloops: A New Scatternet Formation Protocol 1475 Maria Ines Herrero Platero, Francisco Jesus Miguel Soto

Measurement and Statically Modelling of the 60 Ghz Desktop Multipath Channel 1481 C. Liu, E. Skafidas, R. J. Evans

Virtual Paths Management in ATM Networks 1487 Prasit Jiyapanichkul, Pisuth Wannachatrasiri

A Bandwidth Space Allocation Algorithm for ATM Networks 1495 Malik Alamaireh, Hamad Abuzaied

The Interactive Effect of Avatar Visual Fidelity and Behavioral Fidelity in the Collaborative Virtual Reality 1501 Environment on the Perception of Social Interaction Samah Mansour, Mostafa El-Said, Carolyn Rude-Parkins, Jagadeesh Nandigam

Perfectly Matched Layer for the FDTD Solution of Wave-Structure Interaction in Spherical Coordinates 1510 Jasem Jamali, Hamid Keivani

Mobility Knowledge Discovery in Wireless Networks 1514 Cheng-Ming Huang, Tzung-Pei Hong, Shi-Jinn Horng

Fuzzy Logic based Congestion Control in Computer Networks 1521 C. Chrysostomou, A. Pitsillides

In-band Enriched Video for Interactive Applications 1528 Mihai Mitrea, Sorin Duta, Marius Preda, Francoise Preteux

Authentication and Authorization System for Services 1535 Mikko Niiranen, Preetida Vinayakray-Jani

Hybrid Control Architecture for Optical Burst Switching Networks 1542 Muhammad Asif Raza, Waqar Mahmood, Arshad Ali

Using Composite MultiMedia Document Structure and Request Merging with On-Demand Broadcasting to 1550 Deliver QoS within Wireless Networks Ren-Song Ko, Chung-Hsien He

Transmission Gaps Influence on Signal Reconstruction in the NSDM Decoder 1558 Ryszard Golanski, Jacek Kolodziej