th Thepapers appearing in this book were originally presented at the 8 Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications. This symposium, whichi s an annual event for Virginia Tech and MPRG, was held June 10 12, 1998 ont he Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The symposium brings together l eaders from industry and academia to discuss the exciting future of wireless and current research trends. The symposium has been an important part of MPRG's activities since the inception ofthe group in 1990. As can be seen fromt heT able of Contents, the papers included in this book are divided into six sections. The first five of these correspond to s ymposium sessions and aredevoted to the following topics: Smart Antennas and Diversity, Propagation, InterferenceCancellation, Equalization, and Modulation, Coding and Networking. These session titles reflectcurrent research thrusts as the wireless community strives to enhance the capabilities of wirelesscommunications. This year an added feature oft he symposium was the inclusion of externally contributed poster papers. Ten ofthese poster papers are included in thisb ooka sthe sixth section. The first group of contributions, c onsisting of five papers, relateto smart antennas and diversity. The first paper, Effects of Directional Antennas with Realizable Beam Patterns on the Spaced Time Correlation, byT . B. Welch,M. J.

Smart Antennas and Diversity.- Effects of Directional Antennas with Realizable Beam Patterns on the Spaced-Time Correlation Function.- Frequency Reuse Reduction for IS-136 Using a Four Element Adaptive Array.- Pseudo-Blind Algorithm for SDMA Application.- Integrated Broadband Mobile System (IBMS) Featuring Smart Antennas.- CDMA Smart Antenna Performance.- Propagation.- Wireless RF Distribution in Buildings using Heating and Ventilation Ducts.- Predicting Propagation Loss from Leaky Coaxial Cable Terminated with an Indoor Antenna.- Building Penetration and Shadowing Characteristics of 1865 MHz Radio Waves.- Maximizing Carrier-to-interference Performance by Optimizing Site Location.- Azimuth, Elevation, and Delay of Signals at Mobile Station Site.- Interference Cancellation.- A New Hybrid CDMA/TDMA Multiuser Receiver System.- Multiuser Multistage Detector for Mode 1 of FRAMES Standard.- Self-organizing Feature Maps for Dynamic Control of Radio Resources in CDMA PCS Networks.- Equalization.- Complex Scaled Tangent Rotations (CSTAR) for Fast Space-Time Adaptive Equalization of Wireless TDMA.- An Effective LMS Equalizer for the GSM Chipset.- Self-Adaptive Sequence Detection via the M-algorithm.- Soft-Decision MLSE Data Receiver for GSM System.- Modulation, Coding, and Networking.- Turbo Code Implementation Issues for Low Latency, Low Power Applications.- Evaluation of the Ad-Hoc Connectivity with the Zone Routing Protocols.- Invited Posters Presented at the 1998 Symposium.- CDMA Systems Modelling Using OPNET Software Tool.- Signal Monitoring System For Fault Management in Wireless Local Area Networks.- Computer-Aided Designing of Land Mobile Radio Communication Systems, Taking Into Consideration Interfering Stations.- Adaptive Interference Cancellation with Neural Networks.-Calibration of a Smart Antenna for Carrying Out Vector Channel Sounding at 1.9 GHz.- Implementing New Technologies for Wireless Networks: Photographic Simulations and Geographic Information Systems.- Envelope PDF in Multipath Fading Channels with Random Number of Paths and Nonuniform Phase Distributions.- Radio Port Spacing in Low Tier Wireless Systems.- A Peek Into Pandora's Box: Direct Sequence vs. Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum.- On the Capacity of CDMA/PRMA Systems.