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Call for Contributions

You are invited to contribute new pages and other multi-media material to this CD ROM journal. In particular, "overview or tutorial pages" are solicited. This CD-ROM journal is not intended to reveal the latest mathematical derivations, but it is a particularly appropriate means to disseminate your lecture notes, documented or narated slide shows, class reports, literature surveys, animations, circuit diagrams and simulations, etcetera. Suggestions to update or extend existing pages are also welcome.

This way, authors and contributors share information about their progress.
Community messages include target dates and deadlines for publication of new editions, addition of new chapters or topics, major new contributions, file check-in check-out, major changes of directory structure.
Access is open to anyone who indicates an interest in publishing on the wireless communication CD-ROM. See wireless.per.nl for details.

Do you enjoy taking photographs?
... Send us a photograph of a cellular base station in your part of the world.

If you are a hobby photographer and enjoy seeing your photographs on this CD ROM, why not send us your picture. Remember, this is a multimedia presentation and we are interested in much more than textual contributions only.

We would like to include your photographs of antenna installations, measurement set-ups, circuit boards, chip designs, products, etc.

Language

Our subscribers will read you pages from the screen. Please keep your language simple enough to allow the text to be followed easily. In a text book, people may read a difficult sentence over and over. Behind a screen, they just click and move on.

File Formats and File Names

The text of your contribution may contain gif, png or jpg images, Adobe Acrobat &trad;, postscript, audio or video contributions, etc. Please choose file names that adhere to the DOS 8.3 character format, except for Java &trad; animations. Do not use uppercase in any filename. Please use the same four characters for all files that belong together. Please appropriately use subdirectories audio, video, images slides, postscrp and software. This helps to keep the file structure of the CD ROM manageble.
Submissions are not restricted to textual contributions. Video clips, audio interviews, photos, etc are also welcome.

Curves and figures

We highly prefer Either capture the figure in a table and place the caption next to it, or write the caption below the image in a smaller font.

You may give table cells the color cccccc if you like to have some contrast with the surounding text.

HTML Layout

Do not use any background. Do not include font-tages to create headings of larger type set, instead use tags like <h1>Heading 1</h1>. Do not use <font face= ...> type of tages, except for mathematical symbols, such as <font face= symbol>p</font face= symbol> to create p.

Example of a table

Avoid borders and cellspacing by using <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>. Use colors 00cccc and cccccc for table cells.

EnvironmentDelay SpreadAngle spreadMax. Doppler shift
at 1800 MHz
Macrocellular: Rural flat0.5 ms1 degree 200 Hz
Macrocellular: Urban5 ms20 degrees 120 Hz
Macrocellular: Hilly20 ms30 degrees 200 Hz
Microcellular: Factory, Mall0.3 ms120 degrees 10 Hz
Microcellular: Indoors, Office0.1 ms360 degrees 2..6 Hz
  Table Source: A.J. Paulray and C.B. Papadias, "Space-Time Processing for Wireless Communications", Signal Processing Magazine, November 1997, pp. 49-83.

Links

If you refer to a page on the world-wide web, warn the user that he will leave the CD ROM as follows: Please avoid texts like "click here". We prefer the use of "(See also: link)". For links to audio or video use the appropriate icons. An example is given below. For extra emphasis, use the color 00cccc for such a paragraph.

Mathematical Symbols

Throughout this CD ROM we want to use the same symbols for each parameter, and to avoid using a symbol for two different parameters. This is quite a task with all the different sources of content and different authors involved. Please check and comply with the list of symbols.

Copyrights

Persons submitting content should have the copyright of their contribution as creator. We ask for a non-exclusive right to publish the material, i.e., we do not stop authors from using the same content elsewhere. We feel that the added value of the CD ROM journal is in its coherent coverage of a broad range of topics, the hyperlinks and in its ease of use.

We encourage authors to refer on their personal web sites to our demo. We allow authors to put on the World wide web those pages that they personally contributed to the CD ROM, with a reference to this CD ROM.

Header

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Which looks like:

Template

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More Info

For more details please contact the editor-in-chief of this journal: Jean-Paul Linnartz at linnartz@eecs.berkeley.edu.

Material will be reviewed, similar to the review process for a journal papers, but with a special focus on reference and educational values.

Examples of Contributed Pages

Our Wishlist

As a special project, a revision and extension of the glossary is welcome. Particularly, we would like to have translations into foreign languages, including a pronounciation example as audio file. Preferred languages are Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanisch.

World Wide Web Pointers

Pointer to other pages of this presentation can be included, but pointers to URL pages that are available only on internet should be accommodated with the icon www.gif: or by the in-line icon wwwsmall.gif.

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