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From: lei@motcid.UUCP (Peter P. Lei)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: IEEE/Globecom: Qualcomm Spread Spectrum
Keywords: spread spectrum qualcomm viterbi
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:57:25 GMT
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>> Would be interested in hearing a report from anyone who might have
>> attended the IEEE/Globecom conference last week and listened to the
>> discussion on Spread Spectrum given by the folks from Qualcomm.

>I attended GLOBECOM, but did not have the opportunity to participate in 
>the workshop on CDMA, which was organized by QUALCOMM. (I assume that this
>is what you were referring to).

>I did attend the presentation on a paper which was co-authored by Mr. Padovani
>at QUALCOMM, along with Space Engineering of Italy and the ESA. This paper was
>an analysis of a CDMA-based land mobile satellite system for Europe. The result>of their analysis are: "CDMA is the way to go for the provision of satellite
>land mobile services"; CDMA is feasible and dependable.(The paper compared
>CDMA with FDMA).

Anyone know if IEEE is publishing the proceedings from the conference and
how to get a copy of them?

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