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I EEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY APRIL 2006 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 4 ICLEF6 (ISSN 1089-7798) MODULATION AND SIGNAL DESIGN Code Detection in Turbo Source Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Javad Haghighat, M. Reza Soleymani, and Walaa Hamouda UWB Signal Detection Based on Sequence Optimization for Dense Multipath Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Jihad Ibrahim, Rekha Menon, and R. Michael Buehrer An Upper Bound on the Convergence Rate of Uplink Power Control in DS-CDMA Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Minghua Chen and David N.C. Tse WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Estimation of Typical Sum of Lognormal Random Variables using Log Shifted Gamma Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 C.-L. Joshua Lam and Tho Le-Ngoc Enhanced Binary Search with Cut-Through Operation for Anti-Collision in RFID Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Tsan-Pin Wang A High-Performance and Fair Scheduler for the Wireless Network with a Multi-state Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Yuan-Cheng Lai Characterization of Temporal Fading in Urban Fixed Wireless Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Luciano Ahumada, Rodolfo Feick, and Reinaldo A. Valenzuela Outage Performance of MIMO MRC Systems with Unequal-Power Co-Channel Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Liang Yang and Jiayin Qin On WCDMA Base Station Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Ferran Adelantado, Oriol Sallent, and Jordi Perez-Romero Exact Probability of Connectivity in One-Dimensional Ad Hoc Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Akbar Ghasemi and Said Nader-Esfahani Least Squares-based Receive Antenna Selection for MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Systems with Linear Receivers . . . . . . . . 254 Zhiwei Lin, A. B. Premkumar, and A. S. Madhukumar Generalization of the Σo-Rank Criteria for Space-Time Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Jeongchang Kim and Kyungwhoon Cheun Two Hybrid ARQ Algorithms for Reliable Multicast Communications in UMTS Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 George D. Papadopoulos, Georgios Koltsidas, and Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou Virtual Guard Channel for Handoff Calls in Integrated Voice/Data Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Jun Zheng, Yan Zhang, and Emma Regentova SFBC MIMO-OFDM Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction by Polyphase Interleaving and Inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Zoran Latinovic and Yeheskel Bar-Ness Energy Conserving Movement-Assisted Deployment of Ad hoc Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Hamid Mousavi, Amir Nayyeri, Nasser Yazdani, and Caro Lucas A Novel Power Allocation Scheme for Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Jingxing Fu, Young-Hak Kim, Yun-Sang Park, and Jing Wang (Table of Contents continued on back cover) ®