The proposed tutorial contains the latest results on interference suppression techniques. It covers the field chronologically for the last twenty years and it contains results for satellite, satellite / mobile, mobile communications and wireless local loops. The material is divided into three major chapters, one covering the Interference Mitigation methodology, the other Interference Suppression techniques and the last one contains examples of practical cancellers, which can be implemented in real world designs. Interference is considered, in this context, as any signal which may cause unacceptable information signal reception. Thus, we analyze the interfered with systems under the influence of additive noise, co-channel interference, adjacent channel interference, intermodulation, intersymbol interference, non-linearities, as well as fading. The material on fading is the newest one and can only be found scattered in various research papers in international technical journals. A special effort is devoted to applying the analysis involved in solving real world problems, where the solutions can be tried out in designs of real cancellers. Among those are:

• Linear interference canceller
• Indirect cochannel canceller
• Adaptive interference canceller
• ISI and CCI canceller
• Interference canceller combining path pre-selecting adaptive array and cascaded equalizer
• Trellis-coded cochannel interference canceller
• Interference canceling equalizer (ICE)
• Multistage interference canceller
• Hybrid interference canceller

Most of the work comes from a recent textbook by the same author. The level of the presentation is such, that can be followed equally well by practicing engineers, graduate students and University instructors, who might plan to develop new courses. A lot of references are made to new research directions that can be pursued and thus the material can be useful to PhD candidates, who are searching for a research topic.

Speaker: Prof. Peter Stavroulakis

Peter Stavroulakis received his BS and Ph.D. degrees from New York University in 1969 and 1973 respectively and his MS degree from California Institute of Technology in 1970. After a twenty long year career in the USA working at Bell Labs, ATT, NYNEX and Oakland University, Michigan, he joined the Technical University of Crete and was instrumental in the development of the Technology Park of Chania. Prof. Stavroulakis is the founder of the Telecommunication Systems Institute of Crete, a research center for the training of Ph.D. students in Telecomm. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Communications and has been a reviewer for many Technical International Journals. His current research interests are focused on the application of various heuristic methods on Telecommunications, including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms and also in the development of new modulation techniques applicable to Mobile and Wireless Systems