Regular Section
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INVITED PAPERS
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 . Reforming the National Research Institutions in Japan ............. 1
        Nobuyoshi FUGONO

PAPERS
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[Communication Networks and Services]

 . Fast VP-Bandwidth Management with Distributed Control in ATM
   Networks .......................................................... 5
        Ryutaro KAWAMURA, Hisaya HADAMA, Ken-ichi SATO and Ikuo
        TOKIZAWA

[Switching and Communication Processing]

 . Connection Admission Control in ATM Networks ..................... 15
        Hiroshi ESAKI, Kazuaki IWAMURA, Toshikazu KODAMA and Takeo
        FUKUDA

 . Performance Enhancement in Recursive Copy Networks for Multicast ATM
   Switching: A Simple Flow Control Scheme .......................... 28
        Wen De ZHONG, Yoshikuni ONOZATO and Jaidev KANIYIL

[Communication Theory]

 . Throughput Performances of ARQ Protocols Operating over Generalized
   Two-State Markov Error Channel ................................... 35
        Masaharu KOMATSU, Yukuo HAYASHIDA and Kozo KINOSHITA

 . On a High-Ranking Node of B-ISDN ................................. 43
        Chung-Ju CHANG, Po-Chou LIN and Jia-Ming CHEN

[Radio Communication]

 . The Coded Tone Sense Protocol for Multihop Spread Spectrum Packet
   Radio Networks ................................................... 51
        Kwok-Wah HUNG and Tak-Shing YUM

[Antennas and Propagation]

 . Electromagnetic Fields of Dipoles Effected by a Semi-Infinite Media
            ......................................................... 56
        Akira YOKOYAMA

 . A Pattern Synthesis Method for Multibeam Reflector Antennas ...... 64
        Hiroki SHOKI, Kazuaki KAWABATA and Tasuku MOROOKA

[Electronic and Radio Applications]

 . Fundamental Study on Synthetic Aperture FM-CW Radar Polarimetry .. 73
        Yoshio YAMAGUCHI, Toru NISHIKAWA, Masakazu SENGOKU, Wolfgang-M.
        BOERNER and Hyo Joon EOM

LETTERS
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[Antennas and Propagation]

 . Frequency Characteristics of the Radiation Boundary Condition in
   Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method and Its Improvement ......... 81
        Masao KODAMA and Mitsuru KUNINAKA

 . ABSTRACTS (Trans. IEICE, Vol.J77-B-I, J77-B-II, No.1 in Japanese)  86
 . IEICE TECHNICAL REPORTS/CONTENTS ................................. 90