Special Issue on Adaptive Signal Processing in Mobile Radio Communications ========================================================================== . FOREWORD ........................................................ 533 Kenkichi HIRADE, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Hideichi SASAOKA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA and Yukitsuna FURUYA INVITED PAPERS ============== . Adaptive Signal Processing for Optimal Transmission in Mobile Radio Communications .................................................. 535 Hiroshi SUZUKI . Blind Equalization and Blind Sequence Estimation ................ 545 Yoichi SATO PAPERS ====== . A Fast Tracking Adaptive MLSE for TDMA Digital Cellular Systems . 557 Kazuhiro OKANOUE, Akihisa USHIROKAWA, Hideho TOMITA and Yukitsuna FURUYA . A Novel Selection Diversity Method with Decision Feedback Equalizer ........................................................ 566 Hiroyasu ISHIKAWA and Hideo KOBAYASHI . Adaptive Receiver Consisting of MLSE and Sector-Antenna Diversity for Mobile Radio Communications ................................. 573 Hidekazu MURATA, Susumu YOSHIDA and Tsutomu TAKEUCHI . Blind Interference Cancelling Equalizer for Mobile Radio Communications .................................................. 580 Kazuhiko FUKAWA and Hiroshi SUZUKI . Coherent Hybrid DS-FFH CDMA with Adaptive Interference Cancelling for Cellular Mobile Communications .............................. 589 Shigeru TOMISATO, Kazuhiko FUKAWA and Hiroshi SUZUKI . Spectral Efficiency Improvement by Base Station Antenna Pattern Control for Land Mobile Cellular Systems ........................ 598 Takeo OHGANE . Analysis of a Distributed Antenna System and Its Performance under Frequency Selective Fading ...................................... 606 Kiyohito TOKUDA, Shinichi SATO, Yuichi SHIRAKI and Atsushi FUKASAWA . Adaptive Array Antenna Based on Spatial Spectral Estimation Using Maximum Entropy Method .......................................... 624 Minami NAGATSUKA, Naoto ISHII, Ryuji KOHNO and Hideki IMAI . Multicarrier 16QAM System in Land Mobile Communications ......... 634 Youko OMORI and Hideichi SASAOKA . Predictive Antenna Selection Diversity (PASD) for TDMA Mobile Radio ........................................................ 641 Yasushi YAMAO and Yoshinori NAGAO LETTERS ======= . An Adaptive Equalizer Equipped with a Neural Network and a Viterbi Decoder ......................................................... 647 Ken IWASAKI Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Communication Networks and Services] . Performance of a Time Slot Searching Mechanism in Multi-Rate Circuit Switching Systems ............................................... 650 Seung Kye ROH, Kwang Ho KOOK, Jae Sup LEE, Min Young CHUNG and Dan Keun SUNG [Radio Communication] . A Digitalized Quadrature Modulator for Fast Frequency Hopping ... 656 Kazuhiko SEKI, Tetsu SAKATA and Shuzo KATO [Source Encoding] . A Design Method of a Reconfigurable Direct Radiating Array Antenna ........................................................ 663 Tasuku MOROOKA, Kazuaki KAWABATA, Motoharu UENO, Yasuo SUZUKI and Taneaki CHIBA LETTERS ======= . High Speed Multifiber Connector Assembly Method ................. 673 Kazuo HOGARI and Hideshi NAGAKURA . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-B-‡T, J77-B-‡U, No.5 in Japanese) ........................................................ 676