Special Issue on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications ================================================================= . FOREWORD ........................................................ 853 Yoshihiko AKAIWA, Shuzo KATO, Masao NAKAGAWA, Ryuji KOHNO, Shinsuke HARA, Nobuo NAKAJIMA, Yukitsuna FURUYA, Kouichi HONMA and Eisuke FUKUDA PAPERS ====== . High-Performance, Fair Access Control Method for Wireless LANs .. 855 Yoshihiro TAKIYASU and Eiichi AMADA . Semi-Autonomous Synchronization among Base Stations for TDMA-TDD Communication Systems ........................................... 862 Hiroshi KAZAMA, Shigeki NITTA, Masahiro MORIKURA and Shuzo KATO . Full-Duplex Asynchronous Spread Spectrum Modem Using a SAW Convolver for 2.4-GHz Wireless LAN ........................................ 868 Hiroyuki NAKASE, Akihiko NAMBA, Kazuya MASU and Kazuo TSUBOUCHI . Performance Evaluation of Slow-Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Transmission in Rayleigh Fading Indoor Channels ................. 876 Tomoaki ISHIFUJI and Eiichi AMADA . A Study on the Performance Improvements of Error Control Schemes in Digital Cellular DS/CDMA Systems ................................ 883 Ill-Woo LEE and Dong-Ho CHO . Performance Evaluation of Slow-Frequency Hopped/Joint Frequency-Phase Modulation in Broadband and Partial-Band Noise Jamming ......................................................... 891 Ibrahim GHAREEB and Abbas YONGACOG~LU . Multi-Carrier CDMA in Indoor Wireless Radio Networks ............ 900 Nathan YEE, Jean-Paul M.G. LINNARTZ and Gerhard FETTWEIS . A Group Demodulator Employing Multi-Symbol Chirp Fourier Transform ........................................................ 905 Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI, Tomoaki KUMAGAI and Shuzo KATO . Field Experiments on 16QAM/TDMA and Trellis Coded 16QAM/TDMA Systems for Digital Land Mobile Radio Communications .................... 911 Norihito KINOSHITA, Seiichi SAMPEI, Eimatsu MORIYAMA, Hideichi SASAOKA, Yukiyoshi KAMIO, Kazuyuki MIYA, Katsuhiko HIRAMATSU, Kazunori INOGAI and Koichi HOMMA . A New Fully-Digitalized /4-Shift QPSK ModulatorforPersonal Communication Terminals ......................................... 921 Tetsu SAKATA, Kazuhiko SEKI, Shuji KUBOTA and Shuzo KATO . A New Burst Coherent Demodulator for Microcellular TDMA/TDD Systems ........................................................ 927 Yoichi MATSUMOTO, Shuji KUBOTA and Shuzo KATO . Performance Analysis of Road Traffic Data Collection System ..... 934 Jean-Paul M.G.LINNARTZ and Marcel WESTERMAN . Integration of Voice and Data in Wireless Information Networks with Data Steal into Voice Multiple Access ........................... 939 Gang WU, Kaiji MUKUMOTO and Akira FUKUDA . Voice Activity Detection and Transmission Error Control for Digital Cordless Telephone System ....................................... 948 Seishi SASAKI, Ichiro MATSUMOTO, Osamu WATANABE and Kenzo URABE . A New Structure of Antenna System in a Handset Enhancing Antenna Gain by Passive Loading --The Case for /4 Monopole Antenna-- ........................................................ 956 Masanobu HIROSE and Masayasu MIYAKE . Signal Strength Prediction and Distribution Characteristics in Indoor Radio Propagation at 2.5GHz Band ......................... 962 Hiroshi FURUKAWA, Kuninori OOSAKI, Yoshihiko AKAIWA and Hiroyuki SHIMIZU LETTERS ======= . Average Channel Capacity in a Mobile Radio Environment with Rician Statistics ...................................................... 971 Fotis LAZARAKIS, George S.TOMBRAS and Kostas DANGAKIS . A Proposal of a Mobile Radio Channel Database and Its Application to a Simple Channel Simulator ...................................... 978 Tsutomu TAKEUCHI . ABSTRACTS iIEICE Trans., Vol. J77-B-I, J77-B-II, No.7 in Japanesej ........................................................ 981