Special Issue on Optical Signal Processing and Its Applications to Telecommunications
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 633
        Takao MATSUMOTO 
        
INVITED PAPERS
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 . High-Speed Optical Signal Processing for Communications Systems . 635
        Masatoshi SARUWATARI

 . Advanced Photonic Switching Technology for Communications ....... 644
        Masahiko FUJIWARA

 . XPM Effect in Coherent FDM Systems Using FSK and Heterodyne
   Detection Scheme ................................................ 654
        Katsuhiko KUBOKI and Yusuke UCHIDA

PAPERS
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 . Pulsed Lightwave Frequency Synthesizer System Using an EDFA and AOD
   in a Fiber Loop ................................................. 664
        Kazuo AIDA and Kiyoshi NAKAGAWA

 . Photonic Frequency-Division-Multiplexing Highway Switch Using
   Integrated-Optic Multiple Ring Resonators ....................... 674
        Koji SASAYAMA, Felix FRUNH, Toshimi KOMINATO and Keishi HABARA

 . RookNet: A Rearrangeable Optical Network with High Speed Relay
   Processing ...................................................... 679
        Masayuki KASHIMA, Ryouichi WATANABE, Ryouhei KONUMA, Hiroshi
        INOUE and Yoshikatsu SHIRAISHI

 . Optical Path Cross-Connect Node Architecture Offering High
   Modularity for Virtual Wavelength Paths ......................... 686
        Atsushi WATANABE, Satoru OKAMOTO and Ken-ichi SATO

 . All-Optical Timing Clock Extraction Using Multiple Wavelength Pumped
   Brillouin Amplifier ............................................. 694
        Hiroto KAWAKAMI, Yutaka MIYAMOTO, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA and Kazuo
        HAGIMOTO

 . Nonlinear Effect of Direct-Sequence CDMA in Optical Transmission  702
        Wei HUANG and Masao NAKAGAWA

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Communication Networks and Services]

 . Link Capacity Assignment in Packet-Switched Network with Existing
   Network Consideration ........................................... 709
        Suwan RUNGGERATIGUL, Weiping ZHAO, Yusheng JI, Akiko AIZAWA and
        Shoichiro ASANO

 . The Multicast Tree Based Routing for The Complete Broadcast
   Multipoint-to-MultipointCommunications .......................... 720
        Vorawut PRIWAN, Hitoshi AIDA and Tadao SAITO

[Switching and Communication Processing]

 . Performance Study of the Multi-Cell Transfer Scheme in the Optical
   Backbone Network ................................................ 729
        Youngbok CHOI, Hideki TODE, Miki YAMAMOTO, Hiromi OKADA and
        Hiromasa IKEDA

[Source Encoding]

 . Two Models for Variable Bit Rate MPEG Sources ................... 737
        Jean-Lien C.WU, Yen-Wen CHEN and Kuo-Chih JIANG

[Optical Communication]

 . Optical Polarization Azimuth Modulation (POLAM)/Heterodyne Detection
   System .......................................................... 746
        Toshiaki KURI, Katsutoshi TSUKAMOTO and Norihiko MORINAGA

[Radio Communication]

 . Trellis Coded Hybrid 2FSK/4PSK with Expurgated Phase Code ....... 752
        Gunawan WIBISONO and Iwao SASASE

 . Variable Baud Rate Fully Digitized Modem for Wireless Communication
   Systems ......................................................... 760
        Takashi OKADA and Tadashi SHIRATO

LETTERS
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[Communication Networks and Services]

 . A Recursive Matrix-Calculation Method for Disjoint Path Search with
   Hop Link Number Constraints ..................................... 769
        Eiji OKI and Naoaki YAMANAKA

[Mobile Communication]

 . Delay Performance of Multi-Zone MCA Mobile Communication Systems  775
        Qing-An ZENG, Kaiji MUKUMOTO and Akira FUKUDA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-B-I, J78-B-II, No.5 in Japanese)
            ........................................................ 780