Armin Dammann Editor

Stephan Sand is a senior research engineerat the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center. He has spent several months on research visits to both NTT DoCoMo R&D, Yokosuka, Japan and the Communication Technology Institute of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland.

Dr Armin Dammann has been head of the Mobile Radio Transmission Group since 2005 at the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center. Previously to this he was a member of the research staff since 1995. He has published numerous journal articles and conference papers.

Christian Mensing formerly of the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, and now (2013)? with Rohde and Schwarz. His research interests include location strategies in cellular networks and satellite-based navigation systems, and efficient iterative detection techniques.