Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. The Contributors to this work were selected from leading researchers and practitioners in this field.The book's 18 chapters are divided into three areas: systems, Networks, and Implementation Issues; Channel Estimation and Equalization; and Multiuser Detection. The Work, originally published as Volume 30, Numbers 1-3 of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, will be valuable to anyone working or researching in the field of wireless communication systems. It serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging issues being examined today.

Guest Editorial: Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Systems.- Tradeoffs of Source Coding, Channel Coding and Spreading in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels.- VLSI Implementation of the Multistage Detector for Next Generation Wideband CDMA Receivers.- Modulation and Coding for Noncoherent Communications.- Multiple Antenna Enhancements for a High Rate CDMA Packet Data System.- Deterministic Time-Varying Packet Fair Queueing for Integrated Services Networks.- Monte Carlo Bayesian Signal Processing for Wireless Communications.- Bounds on SIMO and MIMO Channel Estimation and Equalization with Side Information.- On Blind Timing Acquisition and Channel Estimation for Wideband Multiuser DS-CDMA Systems.- Downlink Specific Linear Equalization for Frequency Selective CDMA Cellular Systems.- Multipath Delay Estimation for Frequency Hopping Systems.- Greedy Detection.- A New Class of Efficient Block-Iterative Interference Cancellation Techniques for Digital Communication Receivers.- Multiuser Detection for Out-of-Cell Cochannel Interference Mitigation in the IS-95 Downlink.- COD: Diversity-Adaptive Subspace Processing for Multipath Separation and Signal Recovery.- Multistage Nonlinear Blind Interference Cancellation for DS-CDMA Systems.- Adaptive Interference Suppression for the Downlink of a Direct Sequence CDMA System with Long Spreading Sequences.- Constrained Adaptive Linear Multiuser Detection Schemes.