School of Electrical Engineering - KTH

School of ElEctrical EnginEEring
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Osquldas väg 10, SE-100 44 Stockholm
www.ee.kth.se
School of Electrical Engineering annUal rEPort 2008
School of Electrical Engineering
annual report 2008

cover picture:
Bombardier makes 303 km/h high speed test of gröna tåget regina – made possible
with a permanent magnetised (PM) motor.
the Electrical Machines and Power Electronics lab has developed electric motors for
various applications that are both energy and cost efficient, using PM motors.
Photo: Bombardier
Production: School of Electrical Engineering
Editor: Marie androv
graphic design & print: Universitetsservice, US-aB 2009

The Dean has the Floor
In order to ensure
that KTH’s
research remains
internationally
competitive
and that future
research strategies
are developed in a
global perspective,
KTH launched a
comprehensive Research
Assessment
Exercise (RAE) in
2008. In June some
100 international
experts visited KTH to conduct this evaluation.
The outcome of the RAE for the School of Electrical
Engineering (EE) confirmed our position as
a top international research institution. Among
KTH’s school, EE hosts the highest proportion
of top-ranked research units. Telecommunications
and Network, Information and Control
Systems were recognized for their groundbreaking
work on the convergence of communication and
control networked systems under the ACCESS
Linnaeus Center. Electrical Power Engineering
was acknowledged for their long-term, substantial
industrial impact within the Center EKC II.
MEMS research activity has achieved outstanding
international recognition and the panel was very
impressed by the large-scale international experimental
research programs at Fusion and Space
Plasma Physics.
EE experienced an outstanding year in terms of
growth of competitive research funding. Our total
external funding increased by 24% and funding
from the EU framework programs increased
significantly as compared to 2007. The Swedish
Research Council together with the EU framework
programs are now our largest external funding
sources. The Swedish Research Council is the
most competitive funding agency in Sweden based
on scientific merit. Other major research sponsors
include the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish
Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, the
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF),
the Swedish National Space Board and Elforsk.
Some of our largest industrial research sponsors
include Ericsson, Scania and ABB. The growth in
competitive research funding is partially a result
of the school’s strategy of also emphasizing high
quality research when allocating faculty funding.
This assures maximum leverage for our internal
resources and allows us to remain an attractive
research partner.
During the year we have expanded the number of
researchers/faculty and PhD students, welcoming
some 49 new PhD students to EE. In an evaluation
of KTH’s student exchange program, our incoming
exchange students ranked EE as the most competitive
and welcoming academic environment at
KTH, highlighting stimulating courses and “the
great atmosphere between students and professors”.
The number of double degree students at
EE doubled during 2008.
This report briefly describes our educational
programs and EE’s twelve research laboratories
present some of their 2008 highlights. The School’s
three research centers, Electric Power Engineering,
Alfvén Laboratory, and ACCESS Linnaeus
Center also describe their activities. A comprehensive
list of publications and academic degrees
awarded during the year can be found at the end.
We hope that you enjoy this presentation of EE
activities in 2008. More detailed information, as
well as online research reports, can be found on
our website www.ee.kth.se.
From January 2009, I have chosen to step down
as Dean of EE to pursue other challenges. Heading
up EE since its creation in 2004 and working
with colleagues, staff and students to develop the
school have been some of my most rewarding
years professionally. We have experienced 4 years
of exceptional growth in research activity, welcoming
a large number of new faculty, researchers
and students to the school. I am confident that the
school will continue to prosper under the leadership
of our current Dean, Professor Stefan Östlund
and Vice Dean Professor Mikael Skoglund.
Björn Ottersten
Dean

Content
Introduction
The Dean has the Floor ................................................................................................................................ 1
KTH International Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 ................................................................ 3
Highlights 2008 ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Organization and Operations ..................................................................................................................... 7
Facts and Figures .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Doctoral Studies ........................................................................................................................................... 10
Undergraduate Education ........................................................................................................................... 11
Centers
ACCESS Linnaeus Center .............................................................................................................................. 13
Alfvén Center for Fusion and Space Plasma Physics ................................................................................ 14
EKC2 – Center of Excellence in Electric Power Engineering ..................................................................... 15
Laboratories
Automatic Control (AC) ................................................................................................................................. 16
Communication Networks (LCN) ................................................................................................................. 18
Communication Theory (CT) ........................................................................................................................ 20
Electric Power Systems (EPS) ........................................................................................................................ 22
Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (EMPE) ..................................................................................... 24
Electromagnetic Engineering (EME) ............................................................................................................ 26
Fusion Plasma Physics (FPP) ......................................................................................................................... 28
Industrial Information and Control Systems (ICS) ..................................................................................... 30
Microsystem Technology (MST) ................................................................................................................... 32
Signal Processing (SP) ................................................................................................................................... 34
Sound and Image Processing (SIP) .............................................................................................................. 36
Space and Plasma Physics (SPP) ................................................................................................................... 38
Publications
Doctoral Theses ........................................................................................................................................... 40
Licentiate Theses ......................................................................................................................................... 41
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................. 42
KTH International Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008
The School of Electrical Engineering produces
world-class research
When KTH set itself the challenge of conducting
an international review of its entire research base
in 2008, the School of Electrical Engineering (EE)
research received an excellent evaluation.
A panel of 80 international experts assessed the
research quality of EE’s five strategic areas:
• Electrical Power Engineering
• Network, Information and Control Systems
• Fusion and Space Plasma Physics
• MEMS
• Telecommunications
EE will continue to produce research at the highest
international levels.
“The international recognition provided by the
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) clearly
shows the excellence and strength of our research
and that we have created a solid foundation on
which to build and maintain this position”, says
Stefan Östlund, Dean of the School of Electrical
Engineering
Electrical Power Engineering
This is the one of the largest power engineering
units at European universities focusing on mitigation
and adaptation to climate change. “Exceptionally
close and fruitful connections to Swedish
power industry”, the panel concludes.
Network, Information and Control Systems
“Excellent cross-disciplinary activities compared
to international norms and standings”.
The strongest aspect of this unit, according to this
expert assessment, is its “work on convergence of
communication and control in networked systems
under the Linnaeus Center for Automatic
Complex Communication Networks, Signal and
Systems (ACCESS)”.
Fusion and Space Plasma Physics
The unit is “involved in an amazing number of
international research projects”. The fusion group
works within the EURATOM fusion program, including
ITER and the space group within the ESA
science program. The panel encouraged KTH
to seize the “excellent opportunity” that plasma
activities provide and exploit the “largely unused
potential for technical plasma applications.”
MEMS
“Application in medical diagnostics is pioneering”
and publication performance is at a leading edge
level, the assessment read. The fields of excellence
include: fluidics, mechanics, (bio) chemistry and
electrical physics at the micro-level, material physics
and MEMS fabrication processes. Recently the
unit has undertaken studies in fluidic phenomena
on the nano-scale.
Telecommunications
“This is an outstanding, world leading research
group – among the most respected.” It has leading
research in communication theory and wireless
communications. The expert panel found that
this unit showed much collaboration between
the groups, “creating a globally unique research
environment”.
We at EE will continue to focus on quality and excellence
for humankind and for the environment.
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Highlights 2008
100th anniversary of Nobel Lauriat Hannes Alfvén
EE, together with KTH, celebrated the 100th anniversary of
Hannes Alfvén – KTH’s only Nobel Laureate. In 2008 the
Space and Plasma Physics lab organized three open lectures
and showed a 3D demonstration illustrating some of this
pioneer’s groundbreaking work.
His discovery of what we now call Alfven waves opened a
new field of physics, magnetohydrodynamics, however his
discovery was initially met with disbelief. He was even told
that “if such waves existed, Maxwell would have discovered
Hannes Alfvén receives the Nobel Prize in Physics in
them”, recounts Professor Carl-Gunne Fälthammar, his col- 1970 from the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus VI.
league and friend at the Plasma Physics department, KTH,
for 40 years. Nevertheless, his results proved to be both correct and fundamentally important, and the
1970 Nobel Prize in Physics firmly established his reputation in the scientific community.
Hannes Alfvén also took an interest in politics. His passionate opposition to nuclear power had great
impact. “Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are twins,” he maintained.
Read more:
http://www.alfvenlab.kth.se/hannes.html • www.kth.se/hannesalfven/index_flash.html (In Swedish)
Blood poisoning bacteria identified faster
Microsystem Technology Lab consolidates its competence in
Medical diagnostics.
Five European research centers and two industrial
partners formed a new research consortium entitled
Intopsens to combat the growing trend of multi resistant
bacteria. Intopsens is managed by KTH, Wouter van der
Wijngaart, Associate Professor at the Microsystem Technology
Lab and the European Union will support the
consortium for a three-year period with the sum of EUR
2.6 million through its Seventh Framework Program.
“The Intopsens team in an enlightening moment during a
project meeting in Antwerp. KTH participants are Aman
Russom (5th from left), Wouter van der Wijngaart (8th
from left), Fredrik Carlborg (10th from left) and Mikael
Carlsson (12th from left).”
“Through miniaturisation and integration we will be
able to provide the patients faster, and at lower cost, with specific antibiotic treatment. This test should
help in reducing the growing trend of multiresistent bacteria,” says Wouter van der Wijngaart. “Intopsens
is Microsystem Technology Lab’s fourth medical diagnostics project, and consolidates its competence
in this area,” he asserts.
Björn Ottersten awarded prestigious ERC grant
The newly formed ERC, European Research Council, granted 20 MSEK over five year for the research project
“Agile MIMO Systems for Communications, Biomedicine, and Defence”.
Björn Ottersten is one of seven Swedish researchers to receive, in the face of fierce competition, one of the first
ERC grants. The Advanced Grant, as it is called, is aimed at supporting “excellent and innovative research”
carried out by established leading researchers and is given only to the best researchers in Europe.
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employ arrays of transmitters and receivers to design waveforms
to be adapted temporally and spatially to environmental conditions. This will have a profound impact
on future medical imaging/therapy systems, radar systems and radio communication networks.
Other researchers that will be working on the project: Prof. Peter Händel, Docent Magnus Jansson, Docent
Mats Bengtsson, Dr. Per Zetterberg, Prof. Mikael Skoglund and Prof. Petre Stoica Uppsala University.
Moose early warning system awarded road safety prize
Professor Peter Händel, Signal Processing, received the first road
safety prize “Guldälgen” (The Golden Moose) for 2008 from
Älgskadefondföreningen for his innovative project, A Moose Early
warning system, AME. AME is an advanced driver assistance
systems, ADAS, using a night vision camera to detect and prevent
accidents with wild animals, moose in particular. A collision with a
moose almost always results in severe injuries.
Warning system that maintains focus on the road
There is a great risk from too much information on a display in the car.
“When you have a screen which projects images from a thermocamera,
many drivers tend to look at the display too much instead of
also checking through the car window. In fact, a study shows that
drivers look at the display as much as three quarters of the time,”
says Peter Händel.
Instead, Peter Händel has developed a computer program that reads images from the night vision system
and recognises wild animals. The system uses a sign on the navigator display and aims to only signal
when something actually surfaces on the road some 100 meters ahead of the vehicle. Early on KTH
showed the potential of this technology, which now is offered as an optional extra for the top-of-the-line
cars.
KTH establishes an annual prize for Industrial Systems Engineering
A prestigious gold medal for eminent industrial
collaboration.
Industrial collaboration is an invaluable aspect
of KTH education and research. In order to
emphasise its importance, in 2007 the KTH
former President, Anders Flodström, on the
initiative of Professor Torsten Cegrell, instituted
a gold medal in Industrial Systems Engineering.
The first gold medal was presented by
Dean of Faculty, Folke Snickars, at the Prize
Ceremony at Stockholm City Hall 2008.
As Torsten Cegrell, Professor at the Department
of Industrial Information and Control
Systems, KTH, points out “Swedish industry
produces world-class, complex industrial sys-
Prizewinner Dr Johan Schubert, right, together with Prof. Torsten
Cegrell – just after receiving the Gold Medal in Industrial Systems
Engineering.
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tems and designs and is the prime user of these systems and designs. In order to strengthen and maintain
Sweden’s position within Industrial Systems Engineering, it is of the utmost importance to focus on
relevant education and research in this field.”
Dr Johan Schubert, from Cap Gemini, Gothenburg, is the first recipient of the Gold Medal in Industrial
Systems Engineering. Johan Schubert was honoured for his ability to understand extensive structures and
complex contexts and to create, despite impossible odds, sustainable solutions for unmanageable problems.
His career, 15 years at ASEA/ABB, Västerås and almost as long at Ericsson, Gothenburg as well as
his current activities is an excellent example of successful industrial collaboration. Johan Schubert holds
a degree in civil engineering from KTH and received his doctoral degree from Chalmers as an industrial
PhD student.
EE exchange students: “Challenging and stimulating courses”
Incoming exchange students rank the School of Electrical Engineering highest on challenging and stimulating
courses compared to their home university. This information came from a questionnaire filled in
by all incoming exchange students at KTH concerning their studies in 2007/2008.
Professor Mikael Skoglund helping two students
Exchange students voices
“The great atmosphere between students and professors”
“Very international environment and cultural diversity”
“Stimulating laboratory environment”
What lies behind our exchange students’ high ranking of EE education?
“One explanation as to why EE’s exchange students are more dependent on academic quality could well
be that many of them come from schools in France and Switzerland where the academic quality is very
high. These schools have very challenging courses and place high levels of demands on their students,”
says Stefan Östlund, Director of Undergraduate Education, EE.
EE’s exchange students think that the courses are more stimulating and worthwhile than other exchange
students at KTH. “It’s great and sho ws that we have done a good job in creating attractive courses of
high quality,” states Stefan Östlund.
Read more about the evaluation on EE’s website: www.ee.kth.se/aboutee/interviewsonresearch
Organization and Operations
KTH School of Electrical Engineering is one
of nine schools within KTH. The school conducts
research and education in Electrical Power
Engineering, Fusion and Space Plasma Physics,
Telecommunications, and Networks, Information
and Control Systems (NICS). The school’s twelve
laboratories are briefly described in the annual
report, as are our three research centers, shown in
the operational chart below. A the School we give
a five year program in Electrical Engineering, as
well as five two-year master’s programs and one
Erasmus Mundus program. A large number of
foreign students also attend our courses within
exchange programs and double degree cooperations
that KTH has with other universities and
one Erasmus Mundus Program.
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Facts and Figures
Personnel 2008
Full time employments 2008
Faculty and researchers 16% 40
Doctoral students 44% 108
Teachers 25% 61
Technical and administrative personnel 15% 37
Total 246
Costs 2008
(kSEK) 2008
Personnel 63% 146 382
Office costs 11% 26 250
Travel costs 4% 9 271
Overhead 22% 51 548
Total 233 451
Faculty and researcher 16%
Doctor students 44%
Teachers 25%
Technical and administrative personnel 15%
Personnel 63%
Office costs 11%
Travel costs 4%
Overhead 22%
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Income 2008
(kSEK) 2008
University funding for education (GRU) 13% 32 346
University funding for research (FOFU) 37% 89 593
External funding 40% 96 629
Contract research 1% 3 491
Other 8% 18 541
Total 240 600
External Financing 2008
(kSEK) 2008
Vetenskapsrådet (VR) 42 598
EU’s institutions 44 245
Elforsk AB 3 681
Statens energimyndighet 11 070
Rymdstyrelsen 5 151
VINNOVA 13 661
Banverket 2 347
Ericsson Telefonab. L M 1 270
SIDA 1 666
SAAB AB 1 979
Other companies 3 619
Total 131 287
50 000
37 500
25 000
12 500
0
Vetenskapsrådet (VR)
EU’s institutions
Elforsk AB
Statens energimyndighet
Rymdstyrelsen
GRU 13%
FOFU 37%
External funding 40%
Contract research 1%
Other 8%
VINNOVA
Banverket
Ericsson Telefonab. L M
SIDA
SAAB AB
Other companies

Doctoral Studies
Our ambition is to offer a doctoral studies program
meeting the highest standards with students publishing
in top international journals and participating
in well-attended conferences. The program
contents cover a range of research areas reflecting
the specializations of the research groups in the
School. The course curriculum consists of three
main components: basic courses offered on a periodic
basis, more specialized courses and intensive
summer schools.
In 2008, 49 new PhD students were recruited.
At present, approximately 197 active PhD students
are enrolled while 19 PhD and 13 Licentiate degrees
were awarded during the year.
The School hosts two graduate schools. The
Graduate School of Telecommunications (GST)
includes, as well as KTH elements, departments
from Mid Sweden University, University of Gävle
and Blekinge Institute of Technology. GST was
founded in 2002 and currently 54 PhD students
are enrolled in the program. So far 43 Licentiate
degrees and 11 PhD degrees have been awarded.
The second graduate school is the newly formed
ACCESS Graduate School which is associated
with the Linnaeus Center ACCESS – Autonomic
Complex Communication Networks, Signals and
Systems that was founded in 2006 through a 10year
grant from the Swedish Research Council.
Renewal is an important aspect of our PhD
program. Consequently visiting post-docs are encouraged
to develop and offer courses close to their
research areas, internationally renowned researchers
are invited to give intensive courses and means
are provided for proper development of basic
courses. The graduate schools play an important
role in all of this. Students are also encouraged to
spend time as visiting researchers at other universities
or facilities.
Prof. Håkan Hjalmarsson,
Director of Graduate Education
Undergraduate Education
In 2008 the School of Electrical Engineering developed
and implemented an internationally competitive
model of master’s specialization for students
on the Electrical Engineering program. From the
spring of 2009 Swedish students in their third year
may choose one of ten master’s specializations,
taught in English. The total number of students at
EE, including students on the Electrical Engineering
program, master’s programs, exchange and
double degree students, as well as PhD students,
exceeds 1100. More than one third of them are
international students. The relationship between
these categories is shown in the chart below.
102 Exchange students,
including 25 double degree
683 Electrical Engineering
93 Master’s students
197 PhD students
Double Degree Cooperation Agreements
♦ Politecnico Torino
♦ INPG Grenoble
10 11
France 29
Germany 21
Spain 11
Italy 8
Portugal 5
Other countries 28
From the left: Siamak Ayani (E-00) Babak Rasolzadeh, Omid
Ashrafi (E-99), Paiam Ataei (E-00), unknown, Piroz Hasanizadeh
(E-00)
Stefan Öslund,
Director of Undergraduate Education
Exchange Students and Double Degrees
The number of Double Degree students has
doubled over the last few years – in the autumn
term alone 25 students began their studies at EE.
The chart below shows the number of exchange
students and Double Degree students and their
country of origin. In 2008 most international students
came from France and Germany.
♦ UPM Madrid
♦ UPC Barcelona
♦ Paris Ecole Polytecnique
♦ TU Darmstadt
♦ Supélec
♦ ENST Paris
EE alumni win Venture Cup
Four electrical engineering alumni started their
company Oculus AI in 2007. In 2008 they won
the Venture Cup, receiving SEK 400 000 in prize
money. The same year Oculus AI received SEK
1 million from STING. The company’s success is
due to their unique technologies for image analysis
through object recognition which offers a total
real-time image validation service combining
high precision with flexibility and speed. Oculus
AI’s technologies can automatically remove, for
example, nude images, images with weapons or
undesirable symbols etc.

Undergraduate Education
Master’s Programs at School of Electrical Engineering
The two new master’s programs in System, Control
Robotics and in Network Services and Systems that
were started in 2007 proved to be a success. Also the
new master’s program in Electrophysics, initiated in
2008, attracted many applicants. In 2008, 18 students
graduated from the two master’s programs in Wireless
Systems and Electrical Power Engineering. The
number of students admitted to programs in 2008 is
shown in the chart to the right, in total 13 women and
80 men. The Wireless Systems program maintains
its position as the most attractive master’s program at
KTH, and one of the most competitive in Sweden,
with a ratio of eight applicants to every place available.
Students come from more than twenty countries with
the largest groups coming from Turkey, Ethiopia,
Greece, Pakistan, Iran and China.
Preparing students for working life in a diverse environment
Diversity makes for a creative workplace.
150 EE students attended the seminar “Working
in a cross-cultural environment – preparing you
for working life” with the message that diversity
makes for a creative workplace.
“Now I will take a deeper look at what a person’s
behavior is really about, and not assume they mean
something in particular,” says Taufik Putra Hashy,
Indonesia, student on the Master’s program in Wireless
Systems
Understanding the importance of cross-cultural environment.
Samuel Azasu, Director of Studies and researcher at the department of Real Estate Economics, KTH
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, first understood the importance of cross cultural
communications when he came to KTH as a
master’s student from Ghana ten years ago.
He has been interested in diversity in organisational
and leadership pedagogics ever since.
Master’s programs
♦ Network Services and Systems
♦ Wireless Systems
♦ Systems, Control and Robotics
♦ Electric Power Engineering
Network Services and Systems 25
Wireless Systems 20
Systems, Control and Robotics 17
Electric Power Engineering 15
Nuclear Fusion Science
Erasmus Mundus 10
Electrophysics 6
♦ Nuclear Fusion Science
Erasmus Mundus
♦
Electrophysics
“The key is leaving your own country,” says André C.
Bittencourt, exchange student from Brazil
What can students do to prepare for a diverse working environment?
“ It all comes down to yourself. It’s all about you!” Samuel Azasu says emphatically.
What Samuel Azasu means is that you have to work with your prejudices and not assume that people
think or act like you do but instead communicate, ask questions and create a working method.
ACCESS Linnaeus Center
Autonomic Complex Communication
Networks, Signals and Systems
In 2008 ACCESS brought together 160 representatives
from academia and industry at KTH for the
First ACCESS Industrial Workshop to discuss the
future of communication systems and to examine
research advances in this area. This collaborative
meeting place for innovation was followed by
an EU-US workshop gathering key researchers
from academia and industry to focus on research
challenges and emerging industrial trends for next
generation networked embedded systems. At the
ACCESS Scientific Advisory Board meeting in
October, board members P.R. Kumar, University
of Illinois; Martin Vetterli, EPFL and Radia Perlman,
Sun Fellow and Honorary Doctor at KTH
established the Center’s strengths: 1. ACCESS has
the potential to become a world leader in communication
networks and systems, and is already
among the top in Europe 2. Excellent graduate
program with an impressive list of PhD courses
3. Very strong international exchange program,
which can attract outstanding postdocs from top
universities. During the year ACCESS continued
its popular Distinguished Lecture Series with
eminent speakers from around the world.
Research Activities
ACCESS research activities are carried out in four
thematic research areas:
• Networked Services
• Distributed Management
• Communications Infrastructure
• Signals and Systems Theory
In addition, over 60 research projects are ongoing
with support from the European framework programs,
VINNOVA, Ericsson AB, VR, and SSF
About ACCESS
ACCESS Linnaeus Center has enabled KTH to
bring together researchers from Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science and Mathematics
in order to carry out long-term interdisciplinary
research and joint PhD courses on complex com-
From the right: Ruzena Bajcsy, CITRIS, UC Berkeley, Steven Low,
Caltech and Karl H Johansson, Director ACCESS (2009-), Poster
session Industrial Workshop, Jane Walerud, Tobii Technology.
munication networks. The Center consists of 35
senior researchers and 80 PhD students. The annual
turnover is EUR 5 million, making it one of
northern Europe’s largest university research centers
on future communication systems. Together
with industrial partners, ACCESS researchers at
KTH aim to develop fundamental understanding
and engineering principles for designing selfmanaged
and scalable communication networks in
which applications may share real-time information
and cooperate in an efficient, affordable and
reliable manner. ACCESS was founded thanks to
a 10-year Linnaeus grant, awarded by the Swedish
Research Council in 2006. www.access.kth.se
Center Directors
Prof. Björn Ottersten, Director
Prof. Karl Henrik Johannsson, Co-director
Prof. Mikael Skoglund, Program Director
ACCESS Graduate School
ACCESS Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) 2008
♦ Jerome Sgard, Science-Po University, Paris
♦ Amir Averbuch, Tel Aviv University
♦ Chris Byrnes, University of Maryland
♦ Radia Perlman, SUN Microsystems
♦ Vikram Krishnamurthy, Univ. British Columbia
♦ Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna
♦ Graham C. Goodwin, University of Newcastle
♦ Richard M. Murray, Caltech
♦ R. Srikant, University of Illinois
♦ Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley
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Alfvén Center for Fusion
and Space Plasma Physics
Mission
The Alfvén Laboratory was founded in 1990 to
provide a platform for research and education in
fusion- and space-related plasma physics. When
KTH was reorganised in 2006, the Alfvén Center
for Fusion and Space Plasma Physics was formed.
The mission of the Center is to examine the development
plans and programmatic strategies of the
space and fusion plasma physics programs and to
establish priorities in these programs with the aim
of maintaining an internationally leading research
program.
The Director of the Alfvén Laboratory is:
Professor James R. Drake.
The Center has external membership:
Lennart Nordh Swedish Space Board
Gunnar Leman VR (retired)
Per Helander
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany
Eigil Friis Christensen
Danish Space Research Institute
Research Activities
The aim of fusion research is the development of a
fusion power reactor. The fusion research activity
is a part of the EU fusion program carried out
under an agreement between EURATOM and
the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet
– VR). The activity has a long-term time scale
and provides the platform for participation in the
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(ITER) project.
The space research focuses on participation in
satellite missions through development and exploitation
of payload diagnostics for study of electromagnetic
phenomena. The space activities include
hardware participation in a wide range of projects
within the Swedish, bilateral, ESA, NASA, and
JAXA space programs. They are characterised by
international collaboration and long-term commitments
and supported by the Swedish National
Space Board (Rymdstyrelsen – RS).
EKC2 – Center of Excellence in
Electric Power Engineering
Year 2008 marks the third year of the Swedish
center of Excellence in Electric Power Engineering
– EKC². The center comprises four research
programs including a total of 24 research projects.
Industry and government funding for the center
amounts to 15,5 MSEK annually. In addition,
active participation by researchers in industry
adds an additional 7 MSEK per annum, totalling
22,5 MSEK external funding per year. At KTH
the center finances 21 PhD students and 14 senior
researchers, amounting to 7 full-time equivalents.
During 2008 much of the activities in the center
have focused on planning of future projects together
with the industry partners.
Scientific and Industrial output
The scientific output from the center in 2008 in
terms of scientific publications consists of, in total:
11 journal articles, 22 articles at peer-reviewed
conferences and 7 contributions to workshops.
The trend to increase publication in international
journals continues. Moreover, 3 doctoral and 2
licentiate theses have been presented. Additionally,
researchers in the center have actively participated
in tutoring 27 Masters Thesis projects performed
in conjunction with the research projects in the
center.
About the Center
The vision for EKC² is to establish the center as an
international leading group in the area of Electric
Power Engineering, and create a natural meeting
point for industry and academia in northern
Europe. The four strategic goals for the center
are; Integration of new energy sources Affordable
Reliability, Energy Efficiency and Market Development.
The research is organized in four research
areas, Maintenance Management (MM), Controllable
Power Systems (CPS), IT applications for
Power System Operation and Control (ITP) and
High Performance Electrical Machines and Drives
(HPD).
Center Management
Lars Nordström, Director
Patrik Hilber, program manager – MM
Juliette Soulard, program manager – HPD
Valerijs Knazkins, program manager – CPS
Mathias Ekstedt, program manager – ITP
♦ Of particular note during the year are
the following activities and events:
♦ Researchers in the High Performance Electrical
Machines and Drives participated in the Green Train
project in which a Swedish speed record was set by
the Regina train. The researchers in EKC2 have been
working with control of permanent magnet drives
used aboard the Regina train.
♦ Joint work by researchers at KTH and ABB resulted in
an article presented at the international conference
IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting in
October 2007 that won the first prize of the Electrical
Machines Committee’s Prize Paper Awards.
♦ The Annual seminar on Enterprise Architecture
arranged by researchers within the IT applications
in Power System Operation and Control doubled the
audience from last year attracting 230 attendants.
♦ The software tool Emetor for design of permanent
magnet machines has been developed and is openly
available via the web. The software was presented,
and was well received, at the International Conference
on Electrical Machines, Portugal.
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Automatic Control
Our core competence is in modeling, identification, estimation,
control and optimization. The basic research in this area is mainly
sponsored by the Swedish Research Council (VR).
Networked Control Systems
A strategic area is networked control systems. This includes
optimization and control in communication systems as well as
control over communication networks. Here we are involved in
the EU-sponsored Integrated Project SOCRADES and the EU
projects FeedNetBacks, VIKING and WIDE.
The control group is also partner in three European Networks of
Excellence in FP6: HYCON, ARTIST2 and Euro-FGI.
New Research Area
A recent area of research is systems biology, covering modeling
and analysis of intra- and intercellular biochemical networks.
Industrial Collaboration
We have several industrial PhD projects and other joint industrial
research projects with Scania, ABB, GM Powertrain, Ericsson
and FOI.
♦ Carlo Fischione received the best paper award from the IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Informatics.
♦ Pablo Soldati received the best paper award at IEEE International Symposium
on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
♦ Karl Henrik Johansson gave a keynote presentation at 6th International
Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc,
and Wireless Networks, Berlin, 2008.
♦ Four new PhD students, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Chithrupa Ramesh,
Mathias Barkhagen and Christian Larsson, have joined the group.
♦ Carlo Fischione and Ather Gattami joined the group as Research Associates.
Gattami was awarded a four year Research Associate position
by the Swedish Research Council.
♦ Three post docs, Haibo Zhang, Bo Yang and Cristian Rojas, have joined
the group.
♦ Niels Möller, Krister Jacobsson and Märta Barenthin successfully
defended their PhD theses. Camilla TranÈ and Per Salholm received the
Licentiate degree.
♦ Karl Henrik Johansson was appointed Chair of the IFAC Technical
Committee on Networked Systems. Håkan Hjalmarsson was appointed
Chair of the Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and
Signal Processing.
♦ Karl Henrik Johansson was appointed member of the IEEE Control
Systems Society Board of Governors, 2009.
♦ Our project portfolio was extended significantly: The Lab is a partner
in three EU STREP projects that were launched in 2008: FeedNetBack,
VIKING and WIDE. NECS and reSENSE, two VINNOVA projects on
groundbreaking ICT, were approved. The Lab is a major partner in
PROMOS and RAMCOORAN, two multi-project grants granted by the
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. The Swedish Research
Council awarded two new project grants to the Lab.
Personnel
Professors
Håkan Hjalmarsson
Elling W Jacobsen
Karl Henrik Johansson
Bo Wahlberg
Professor Emeritus
Torsten Bohlin
Associate Professor
Mikael Johansson
Research Associates
Carlo Fischione
Henrik Sandberg
Post-doctoral researchers
Dimos Dimarogkonas
Jonas Mårtensson
Maben Rabi
Cristian Rojas
Alexandre Seuret
Haibo Zhang
PhD Students
Mathias Barkhagen, Märta Barenthin
Syberg, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Erik
Henriksson, Krister Jacobsson, Björn
Johansson, Magnus Lindhé, Torbjörn
Nordling, Pan Gun Park, Chithrupa
Ramesh, Pablo Soldati, Camilla Trané
Industrial PhD Students
Magnus Neuman, Per Sahlholm
Research Engineers
Cesare Carretti, Oscar Flärdh
Lab Administrators
Karin Karlsson Eklund, Anneli Ström
System Administrators
Niclas Horney, Magnus Vinblad
Research Projects
Networked Embedded Systems
Networked embedded systems play an increasingly
important role in industry and society, and affect
most aspects of our lives. By enabling embedded
systems to communicate, new applications and services
are being developed in areas such as healthcare,
industrial automation, security and transportation.
Our research group focuses on a number of fundamental
research problems on how to efficiently
use system and network resources while providing
reliability and quality. We are part of several leading
international networks and collaborations in the
area covering a wide spectrum of problems including
networked embedded systems programming,
resource management, networked control, distributed
optimization and coordination, and systems
security. The European project FeedNetBacks aims
to close the control loop over wireless networks by
applying a co-design framework that allows the
integration of communication, control, computation
and energy management aspects in a holistic way.
The objective of the European VIKING project is
to develop, test and evaluate methodologies for the
analysis, design and operation of resilient and secure
industrial control systems for critical infrastructures
demonstrated on systems for transmission and distribution
of electric power. The European project
WIDE aims at developing a rigorous framework
for advanced control and real-time optimization of
truly large-scale and spatially distributed processes,
based on the integrated use of distributed model
predictive control and wireless sensor feedback.
These EU projects are done in collaboration with
academic and industrial collaborators, such as ETH
Zurich and the universities in Eindhoven, Grenoble
and Siena, as well as ABB and E.ON.
Systems Biology
The significant progress within molecular biology,
genetics and bioinformatics over the past decade has
resulted in a detailed knowledge of the components
that constitute a living cell. However, the various
functions of a cell can not be attributed to single
genes or proteins, but are rather a result of interactions
between DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites
within highly complex dynamic networks.
The research in systems biology uses a control
theoretic approach to contribute to the understanding
of how these interactions generate robust cell
functions. Within the project we consider network
modeling, using a priori knowledge combined with
experimental data, as well as network analysis,
considering properties such as stability, sensitivity
and robustness and aiming at identifying the key
mechanisms underlying specific functions and properties.
The research will not only contribute to an
increased understanding of the sources of functions
and malfunctions of biological systems, but also
provide tools that can guide the syntheses of new
mechanisms aimed at improving the functionality.
Modeling and Estimation
A theme of our research in this area has been
to take the use of the model into account in the
estimation step, and particular control and fault
detection applications. Much effort has been spent
on understanding how different factors influence
an identified model’s accuracy. Also, experiment
design has been a focal point of our research, with
contributions to adaptive designs and input design
for non-linear systems. Recent work include Märta
Barenthin’s PhD thesis.
Many of our more applied and industrial projects
are based on this competence. One example is the
research at the Center for Autonomous systems on
path planning, localization and grasping, where
model based estimation methods is of fundamental
importance. Another example is our recent industrial
projects with Scania AB on energy management
of an hybrid bus and our work in engine control
with GM Powertrain, where again the modeling for
optimization and control is a real challenge.
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Communication Networks
The Laboratory conducts research and education in networking.
Our interests are multimedia communication, distributed
network management, and mobile communication. Our investigations
blend theory, simulation and experimentation. LCN is
responsible for teaching seven undergraduate courses, including a
new course on network algorithms, and two graduate courses; we
are jointly running the popular international master’s program
Network Services and Systems.
Activities
We contributed to EU projects Ambient Networks, 4ward, One-
Lab2, Viking, Sendora, and the networks of excellence EMAN-
ICS and EuroNF, as well as to to Vinnova projects CROPS II,
Seran, and DISC. Gunnar Karlsson was TPC co-chair of IEEE
IWQOS and of ITC Specialist Seminar 19 on Network Usage
and Traffic. Rolf Stadler co-chaired 1st IEEE INFOCOM
Workshop on Automated Network Management (ANM’08) and
the Third IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous
Network Management Systems (DANMS 2008). György
Dán was publicity chair for the 4th International Wireless Internet
Conference (WICON 2008).
Seminars
Seminars were given by Özalp Babaoglu (Bologna), Hanoch
v
Levy (Tel Aviv), Radia Perlman (SUN Microsystems), Dzmitry
Kliazovich (Trento), Panos Papadimitratos (EPFL), Bernhard
Plattner (ETH Zurich), Niklas Carlsson (Calgary).
♦ György Dán and Viktória Fodor won the Best Paper Award at IFIP Networking
2008 for their paper “Delay Bounds and Scalability in Overlay
Multicast.”
♦ Alberto Gonzalez defended his PhD thesis on Nov 21. Adaptive Realtime
Monitoring for Large-scale Networked Systems.
♦ Ignacio Más received his PhD degree after a defense of his thesis On
admission control for IP networks based on probing on June 13.
♦ Jing Fu defended his PhD thesis On the Design of Next-Generation
Routers and IP Networks on Nov. 26.
♦ Vladimir Vukadinović received his licentiate degree.
♦ Joint workshop between LCN and the Communication Systems Group
of ETH Zurich was held in Zurich in December.
♦ Jing Fu visited the Dept. of Comp. Science at Princeton University,
January - April.
♦ Dr Dan Jurca left KTH to become researcher a DOCOMO Euro-Labs,
Munich, Germany
♦ Gunnar Karlsson was invited speaker at the Polish-German Teletraffic
Symposium in Berlin, Germany.
♦ LCN hosted Prof. Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, during June.
♦ Gunnar Karlsson was opponent for Timo Vahnatupa´s thesis defense at
Tampere University of Technology
Personnel
Professor
Gunnar Karlsson (Head)
Rolf Stadler
Associate Professor
Viktória Fodor
Assistant Professor
György Dán
Post-doctoral researcher
Dan Jurca
Administrator
Anna Ohlsson
PhD Students
Ilias Chatzidrossos
Jing Fu
Ioannis Glaropoulos
Alberto Gonzalez
Ólafur Ragnar Helgason
Georgios Koudouridis (external)
Ignácio Más Ivars (external)
Ian Marsh (external)
Vladimir Vukadinović
Liping Wang
Fetahi Wuhib
Visiting researchers
Abbas Nayebi, Sharif University
Prof. Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich
Prof. George Pavlou, UCL
Dr Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems
Master thesis students
Muzzamil Aziz Chaudhary
Ioannis Glaropoulos
Anders Järnberg
Ralitsa Kostadinova
Varma Tarun
Geng Yu
Research Projects
Sensor network dimensioning
As participants in a new European project we
considered the specific application of distributed
spectrum sensing to support cognitive radio systems,
an emerging technology that allows flexible
access to spectrum (illustrated above). We defined
mathematical models to derive the sensor density
and the level of sensor cooperation that is necessary
for reliable sensing in two conference publications.
Peer-to-peer content distribution
We defined an analytic framework to evaluate the
performance of low complexity streaming solutions
based on peer-to-peer overlays. We developed
a distributed caching and relaying mechanism
for ISP friendly content distribution, and are
cooperating with European universities in the area
of network aware content distribution systems. We
are also working on the definition of benchmarking
scenarios within a recently started European
project. We published our work in three journal
and four conference papers.
Sensor network dimensioning
As participants in a new European project we started to work on wireless sensor networking issues. We
considered the specific application of distributed spectrum sensing to support cognitive radio systems, an
emerging technology that allows flexible access to spectrum resources (illustrated above). We defined
mathematical models to derive the sensor density and the level of sensor cooperation that is necessary for
reliable sensing. We summarized our work in two conference publications.
Peer-to-peer content distribution
Peer-to-peer is a promising paradigm for large scale content distribution, such as live streaming and video on
demand. In this project we defined an analytic framework to evaluate the performance of low complexity
streaming solutions based on peer-to-peer overlays. We developed a distributed caching and relaying mechanism
for ISP friendly peer-to-peer content distribution, and are cooperating with a number of European universities in
the area of network aware content distribution systems. We are also working on the definition of benchmarking
scenarios for peer-to-peer content distribution systems within a recently started European project. We published
our work in three journal and four conference papers.
Distributed Auto-configuration
The aim of this work is to automate configuration in large systems, while allowing business objectives and
operational policies to restrict the configuration process. We have pursued a peer-to-peer approach to facilitate
Distributed Auto-configuration
The aim of this work is to automate configuration
in large systems, while allowing business objectives
and operational policies to restrict the configuration
process. We have pursued a peer-to-peer
approach to facilitate scalability and rapid reaction
times in response to external events or failures and
have produced results in the area of self-configuration
of 3G/LTE networks. This work has been
performed in cooperation with Ericsson
Research and the Center for Networked Systems
(CNS) at SICS.
Adaptive Decentralized Monitoring
To enable autonomic behavior in networked
systems, real-time knowledge of the system state
is essential. We have engineered protocols that
perform the tasks of distributed polling, continuous
estimation, and threshold detection for
network-wide aggregates. This work has been
carried out in cooperation with Cisco Systems and
has contributed to the 4WARD Integrated Project
on the Future Internet. Collaborators from KTH
include Mads Dam and Erik Aurell at CSC.
Wireless networking
We have developed an analytic model for pedestrian
mobility in a street environment and have
studied peer-to-peer content distribution based on
a model for the spread of epidemics. The project is
carried out in collaboration with ETH Zurich. Six
conference papers have been published.
We have also studied cellular systems with respect
to resource allocation for video streaming and
statistical multiplexing gains of H.264/AVC video
in E-MBMS. One conference paper has been published
and one journal paper accepted.
Router and Network Architecture
We have shown the advantages of having centralized
control architecture in IP networks with respect
to traffic engineering and route convergence.
With continuous evolution of routers and IP networks,
eventually IP networks in an autonomous
system and a distributed router might converge
into one network system.
One journal paper and five conference papers have
been published this year.
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Communication Theory
The chair in Communication Theory at the Royal Institute of
Technology was founded in 2003, as a direct successor to the
previous chair in Teletransmission Theory. The Communication
Theory Lab conducts research and education in the general area
of digital communications. Our undergraduate education is presented
in collaboration with the Signal Processing Lab. Fourteen
undergraduate courses are given every year, most of them during
the final two years, and approximately 30 master theses are completed
annually. At the graduate (PhD) level, we offer courses in
theoretical aspects of digital communications. The Lab’s research
focuses on information and communication theory, with emphasis
on wireless systems.
Publications and Projects
In 2008 we produced 19 new journal papers (published and/or accepted),
and 19 conference papers. The Lab also received several
new projects, notably the SSF “rambidrag” RAMCOORAN.
Some additional highlights during the year are listed below.
♦ Lars K. Rasmussen joined the Lab as a new Professor. He comes most
recently from a position as Research Professor at the Univ. of South
Australia.
♦ Tobias Oechtering joined as a new PostDoc. Tobias has his Dr.-Ing.
from UT Berlin.
♦ Tung Kim and Niklas Wernersson received their PhD degrees. Tung
joined Princeton Univ. as a PostDoc, and Niklas is now with SAAB
Microwave in Gothenburg.
♦ Majid Khormuji and Johannes Karlsson received their Lic. Eng. Degrees.
♦ Hieu Do, Jinfeng Du, Maksym Girnyk, Nicolas Schrammar, Amirpasha
Shirazinia, and Ali Zaidi joined as new PhD students.
Personnel
Professors
Mikael Skoglund (Head)
Lars Rasmussen
Göran Einarsson (emeritus)
Lars Zetterberg (emeritus)
Associate Professors
Thobaben, Ragnar
Xiao, Ming
Financial Administrators
Annika Augustsson
Tetiana Viekhova
Post-doctoral researcher
Tobias Oechtering
PhD Students
Mattias Andersson
Lei Bao
Ricardo Blasco Serrano
Hieu Do
Jinfeng Du
Maksym Girnyk
Johannes Karlsson
Majid Nasiri Khormuji
Nicolas Schrammar
Amirpasha Shirazinia
Zhongwei Si
Sha Yao
Ali Zaidi
Research Projects
Wireless Transmission
One central activity in wireless transmission is the
utilization of partial channel-state information at
the transmitter (partial CSIT), obtained via a resolution-constrained
feedback link. During the year,
we published a paper on how to combine longterm
(statistical) CSI with short-term information
received via a feedback link. We also published
a paper on the design of optimized modulation
schemes in the presence of known interference.
Relaying and cooperative transmission are concepts
for providing increased reliability, coverage
and higher transmission rates in wireless networks.
Our work in this area mainly concerns the
design and analysis of new transmission schemes,
and the study of fundamental limits on achievable
performance. Some of our recent contributions
provide analytical results on the outage probability
and outage exponent for various scenarios.
Our work also includes the design of new relaying
protocols based on hybrid digital-analog and
purely analog techniques. In particular, we have
focused on memoryless instantaneous relaying.
We are also active in cooperative transmission for
sensor networking to support distributed spectrum
sensing for cognitive radio, and we have studied
fundamental limits on the performance of cognitive
spectrum sharing.
Coding for Wireless Communications
Our research on coding for cooperative communications
includes the design of rateless codes optimized
for wireless networks, multi-user (hybrid)
automatic repeat request schemes employing joint
network and channel coding, and distributed coding
schemes for the relay channel. Here, we focus
on traditional designs for long block lengths and
also on low-complexity approaches working with
short block lengths. A target application in this
context is wireless sensor networking employed for
spectrum sensing in a cognitive radio scenario.
We also study various aspects of network coding,
in particular for cooperative communications.
With network coding in the relay nodes, we have
shown that higher diversity and coding gains can
be obtained. As a related topic, we are also studying
rateless codes for packet-level erasure control.
To meet the delay constraint, we investigate
rateless codes with finite source-length, as needed
to meet the requirement of real-time application.
These codes still provide long channel codewords,
to result in powerful channel codes. Hence, the
proposed codes are well suited to wireless applications.
Additionally, we extended the optimal coding
strategy for the bidirectional broadcast channel
to a fundamental coding strategy which includes
non-causally known channel state information at
the encoder.
Joint Source-Channel Coding
Our work on joint source-channel coding has resulted
in new designs for robust distributed quantizers
for different environments. A particular
focus is on distributed estimation and compression
for wireless sensor networking. Additionally we
have been active in the field of designing analog
joint source-channel codes, both for single as well
as multiple sources. In our work on system optimization
for iterative source-channel decoding,
new code designs were developed which lead to an
improved error robustness while at the same time
the decoding complexity is significantly reduced.
We have also studied achievable distortion
exponents in source-channel coding over slow
fading channels. This work characterizes the
rate at which the end-to-end distortion can be
made to approach zero as the channel SNR goes
to infinity. For this problem, we have published
papers concerning both cooperative relaying and
multiple-antenna transmission. In our work on
coding for networked control, we have studied the
problem of optimal encoder-decoder-controller
design when controlling unstable linear systems.
Here we have expanded on previous work by
proposing various joint designs for control over
a noisy channel, subject to different assumptions
on process and measurement noise. We have also
studied the rate-allocation problem for quantized
sensor measurements. Finally, we also published a
paper on robust image coding over channels with
both bit errors and erasures.
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Electric Power Systems
The scientific and technical activities of Electric Power Systems
cover development and application of methods for analysis, simulation,
and control of electric and integrated energy systems. Important
aspects include decision criteria, reliability, security and
market design. Studied systems include generation, transmission,
distribution, and the use of electric energy in addition to operation
and planning of electric power systems. An important area is
the coupling between the physical power system and the behavior
of actors on the electricity market.
Controllable Power Systems
Within the Centre of Excellence in Electric Power Engineering,
the division is active within the program Controllable Power
Systems. This research program started up with a new phase in
2006 and is chiefly concerned with the theory and applications
of technical and economical control of power systems in order to
achieve robust and efficient operation with optimal reliability in
the framework of the deregulated electricity markets.
Courses
EG2020 Power Systems, basic course
EG2030 Power Systems, advanced course
EG2040 Wind Power Systems
EG2050 System Planning 8
EG2060 Electricity Market Analysis
EG2070 FACTS and HVDC in Electric Power Systems
EG2080 Monte Carlo-methods in Engineering
♦ Five postgraduate examination have taken place:
Daniel Salomonsson received his PhD (2008-04-04)
Hector LaTorre received his Licentiate (2008-04-07)
Lars Abrahamsson received his Licentiate (2008-09-05)
Robert Eriksson received his Licentiate (2008-09-19)
Karin Alvehag received her Licentiate (2008-10-22)
♦ Katherine Elkington received the prize “Second Best Paper” in the Australian
Universities Power Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia,
14-17 December, 2008
♦ One post-doc was recruited, Jai Govind-Singh
♦ 14 Master theses were completed during the year.
♦ Lennart Söder delivered the Grid Connection Inquiry to the Swedish
government in February 2008
Personnel
Professors
Lennart Söder (Head)
Assistant Professor
Mehrdad Ghandhari
Lab administrators
Brigitt Högberg
Researchers
Mikael Amelin
Jai Govind Singh
Valerijs Knazkins
Julija Matevosyan
PhD Students
Karin Alvehag
Lars Abrahamsson
Geoffrey Bakkabulindi
Elin Broström
Katherine Elkington
Robert Eriksson
Hector Latorre
Rujiroj Leelaruji
Elin Lindgren
Magnus Olsson
Magnus Perninge
Daniel Salomonsson
Al-mas Sendegeya
Magnus Öhrström
Research Projects
In the division there are projects within three different
areas:
Power System Dynamics and Control
Electricity Markets and Production Planning
Power System Network Planning
The Swedish grid, comprises mainly 220 and
400 kV lines, switchyards and transformer stations
and foreign links for alternating (AC) and direct
current (DC).
Extend 2004 Overhead line Cable
400 kV AC 10643 km
4 km
275 kV AC 75 km
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7 km
HVDC (High Voltage DC) 115 km 459 km
Improved power system control can damp international electromechanical
oscillations and decrease power prices.
Power System Dynamics and Control
This research area focuses on stability and damping
in power systems, the impact of FACTS and
HVDC systems on the dynamics of power systems,
and how these systems can be used to improve
utilization of the existing transmission systems and
the security and stability of power systems. Also,
the dynamic of wind power farms, and the impact
of the integration of large-scaled wind power
generation on the dynamics of power systems are
considered. Furthermore, this research area focuses
on derivation of linear and nonlinear control
strategies for controllable devices (such as FACTS,
HVDC and PSS) to improve transient stability and
damping. Application of PMU-technology to these
control strategies is also considered.
Electricity Markets and Production Planning
Given a set of rules, the producers of the electricity
market have to plan their operation in order to use
the power plants as efficiently as possible. Research
projects within this area include topics such as
expansion of the transmission system, congestion
management, coordinated production planning
of wind and hydro power, production planning
of sales to spot market and real-time balancing
market, regulation of distribution grids as well as
electricity disclosure and other means to promote
environmentally benign electricity generation.
Power System Network Planning
The research performed at the Electric Power
Systems Lab considers different types of grids, but
the basic behavior for all grids is the same. Actual
types of grids include transmission grids, distribution
grids, local micro grids, and railway electricity
feeding grids. Projects treat improvements of the
protection system, dimensioning with respect to
uncertain future needs, reliability impact from
severe weather conditions, risk analysis from both
consumer and owner perspectives and operation
planning under uncertainty.
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Stavanger
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Thermal power plant (CHP)
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220 kV line
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voltages below 220 kV
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Electrical Machines
and Power Electronics
The major research areas at the department are :
Electrical Machines and Drives
This area covers both conventional and unconventional electrical
machines. Conventional machines include induction machines,
synchronous machines and DC machines. The major research
topics here are formulated to achieve a better understanding of
the sources of losses, noise and vibration with the ultimate goal
of reducing them. Advanced simulation tools and new materials
are examples of how such goals can be achieved. Unconventional
machines include permanent magnet machines, transverse flux
machines and cover radial, axial and linear topologies. These machines
are suitable in applications where high torque density and/
or high efficiency are important parameters for system performance
which can therefore outweigh the extra cost for these machines.
Example of such applications are electric hybrid vehicles,
wind power generators, integral motors etc. Today, permanent
magnet motors are interesting even for industrial drives.
Power Electronics and Control
The activities are concentrated to new converter topologies, circuits
for new semiconductor components, and control aspects of
utility applications, such as FACTS and HVDC. A field of special
interest is real-time simulation of power converters in electric
power systems. A powerful real-time simulator which is used
both in research and education is situated in the laboratory.
Electric Traction
The main focus at the department includes both improvements
in performance of the existing electrical equipment in rail-borne
vehicles and suggestions of replacing hydraulic or pneumatic
actuators by their electrical counterparts. The existing equipment
includes the step-down transformer, propulsion drive, AC/DC
converters and auxiliary power equipment.
♦ 1 students received his PhD degree
♦ 2 students received their Licentiate degrees
♦ 7 journal and 23 conference papers were presented
♦ 12 students completed their master thesis
Personnel
Professors
Chandur Sadarangani (Head)
Hans-Peter Nee
Stefan Östlund
Adjunct Professor
Lennart Ängquist
Electrical Machine Laboratory
Jan-Olov Brännvall (technician)
Administration
Eva Pettersson (Financial administrator)
Peter Lönn (System Administrator)
Associate Professor
Juliette Soulard
Senior Research Engineer
Mats Leksell
Researchers
Staffan Norrga
Oskar Wallmark
PhD Students
Antonios Antonopoulos, Ratna Chitroju,
Alija Cosic, Christer Danielsson,
Henrik Grop, Nicklas Johansson,
Tommy Kjellqvist, Florence Meier,
Stephan Meier, Dimosthenis Peftitsis,
Saeed Khan Kashif, Samer Shisha,
Alexander Stening, Dmitry Svechkarenko,
Georg Tolsto, Hailian Xie,
Zhang Lidong, Zhao Shuang
Research Projects
New topology for more efficient AC/DC converters
for future offshore wind farms
In this project, a novel topology for more efficient
AC/DC converters for future offshore wind
farms in the range of several 100 MW has been
evaluated. The proposed topology incorporates a
voltage source converter with capacitive snubbers
and cyclo-converters, connected by a mediumfrequency
collection grid. Such a topology has big
advantages compared to conventional solutions for
HVDC transmission. It considerably reduces the
energy generation cost by both reducing the initial
cost and the conversion losses.
During the project, two main technical challenges
have been solved: The commutation of the
thyristor-based cyclo-converters, especially during
low energy generation from the wind farm, as well
as the design of the medium-frequency collection
grid. Results from simulations have been verified
with measurements on a 40 kVA prototype
converter system.
As a consequence, the new mutually commutated
soft-switching converter system facilitates the
establishment of future offshore wind farms. It is
especially suitable for remote wind farms situated
at a long distance from a strong connection point
in the grid.
Photograph of Stephan Meier and his prototype converter system.
A Novel Transverse Flux Direct Drive Generator for
wind power application
Availability and reliability of generating units
become importance particularly for stand-alone and
offshore applications due to their often hard-toreach
locations. The overall reliability of a wind
turbine is reduced by using a gearbox, which is subject
to mechanical wear and vibrations, and requires
expensive maintenance. As a result, a gearless wind
energy system, see Fig.1 below, has drawn the attention
of wind turbine manufacturers.
Figure 1- A gearless wind energy system
The gearless wind energy system requires a directdriven
low-speed generator with a larger than
conventional generator outer diameter. In the last
few decades, a reduced magnet price has made
synchronous generators with permanent magnet
excitation an attractive alternative. The generator
of this type favors a reduced active weight, and decreased
copper losses, yet the energy yield is higher.
A novel transverse flux topology utilizing permanent
magnets as a means of excitation is employed
in the project. Compared to the existing permanent
magnet wind generators, the transverse flux generator
(TFG) offers a more compact design and a
lower active weight. However, the unconventional
mechanical structure contributes to the increased
manufacturing cost. The new TFG topology
studied in this project favors a reduced total weight
of nacelle due to its compact structure and comparably
low outer diameter.
Photograph of Dmitry at his computer screen
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Electromagnetic Engineering
The scientific and technical activities of the division include electromagnetic
theory and physical and technical fundamentals in
electrical engineering. The research aims at developing theory,
methods and models for the design and operation of electrical
devices and systems for power and telecommunication applications.
Most of the work is carried out in interaction with industry
or is inspired by their problems. Research applications ranges
from novel materials and antenna design to electric power device
modeling and estimation of power system asset values. Major
sponsors of the research are: National Energy Administration,
Elforsk, Banverket, ABB, SAAB and other industries, EU, VR,
Vinnova, NFFP.
International exchange and conference activities
International exchange and conference activities are extensive.
Examples are: Sailing He was part time professor also at Zheijang
university and research director of the joint research center
of photonics with KTH. Rajeev Thottappillil is the chairman of
ESF COST Action P18: The Physics of Lightning Flash and its
Effects.
Courses:
EI1100 Electrical Circuit Analysis
EI1101 Applied Electronics
EI1200 Electromagnetic Field Theory
EI210 Wave Propagation and Antennas
EI1240 Electromagnetic Theory F
EI1260 Electromagnetic Theory CL, Introductory Course
EI1265 Electromagnetic Theory CL, Optional Course
EI2400 Applied Antenna Theory
EI2402 Electromagnetic Compatibility
EI2405 Classical Electrodynamics
EI2410 Field Theory for Guided Waves
EI2420 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
EI2430 High-voltage Engineering
EI2333, EI2433 Electrotechnical Modeling
EI2440 Electrotechnical Design
EI2450 Reliability Assessment of Power Systems
♦ A research group in Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) was formed.
♦ 6 PhD theses and 1 Lic. thesis were completed
♦ 51 journal papers, 2 book chapters, 29 Conference papers
♦ 14 Master theses projects were completed.
♦ 54.6 full time students (HÅP)
♦ Sabina Karlsson was awarded price for the best master thesis 2007 on
maintenance.
♦ 4 new PhD students were recruited.
♦ Two new major research projects were granted, on electromagnetic
compatibility by Banverket and on small MIMO antennas system by
VINNOVA.
Personnel
Professors
Rajeev Thottappillil (Head from Oct. 2008)
Roland Eriksson (Head)
Göran Engdahl
Sailing He
Staffan Ström (emeritus)
Adj. Professor
Mats Bäckström
Associate and assistant professors
Lars Jonsson
Gunnar Larson
Martin Norgren
Lina Bertling
Hans Edin
Research associates
Peter Fuks
Patrik Hilber
Administrator
Gulli Frohmader
PhD Students
Lars Austrin, François Besnard
Valentinas Dubickas, Anders Ellgardt
Cecilia Forssén, Patrik Hilber
Xin Hu, Siti Fatima Jainal
Kelin Jia, Nadja Jäverberg
Andrea Lang, Xuan Li
Tommie Lindquist, Ziya Mazloom
Surajit Midya, Alireza Motevasselian
Julia Nilsson, Jörgen Ramprecht
David Ribbenfjärd, Johan Setreus
Jianqi Shen, Jun Song
Hanif Tavakoli, Nathaniel Taylor
Mohsen Torabzadeh, C-J Wallnerström
Kristian Winter
Research Projects
Electromagnetic Theory
The research focus is on the basic macroscopic electromagnetic
laws in the generation and propagation
of electromagnetic effects in various media and
devices. Small MIMO antennas system and assessment
of the scattering limit, dynamics of nonlinear
equations, design of radar absorbers using magnetic
materials, bio-imaging and sensing are the research
topics. The group is active in the SINO-Swedish
project under VINNOVA with the title: “Access
technologies: multiple access, multiple users, multiple
distributed antenna systems”.
Metamaterials and Optoelectronics
The research concerns propagation and scattering of
waves in new types of complex materials, including
materials with negative permeabilities and permittivities
and their applications in the design of new
types of optoelectronic devices. The group is actively
engaged in the recently created Joint Research Center
for Photonics of KTH and Zhejiang University.
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
The EMC group moved from Uppsala University
in 2008. Focus of research is to develop new
knowledge and technologies for reliable operation
of distributed networks such as railways, communication
and power in the presence of electromagnetic
interference from lightning, switching devices,
high altitude nuclear explosions, geomagnetically
induced currents, and intentionally created high
power electromagnetic fields. The group plays a
leading role in the EU project COST P18: The
Physics of Lightning Flash and its Effects.
Electrotechnical Modelling
This research involves development of theory and
methods for modelling electric power components
including magnetic materials. The research topics
are modelling of transformers with ferromagnetic
core, electromechanical actuators, electromachines
and magnetic amplifiers for aircraft applications.
A magnetic and material modelling laboratory has
been built up for characterization of magnetic and
functional materials.
Antenna Theory and Design
The focus is on the development of new analytic
and numerical methods for the design of advanced
antenna configurations, such as broad-band antenna
arrays and antenna arrays conformal to some prescribed
(curved) surface. A new area is antenna applications
exploiting the band structure of photonic
crystals.
Insulation Diagnostics
The research aims at developing methods that can
diagnose the degradation of the electrical insulation
of high voltage equipment in power grid. Research
include physical modelling of partial discharges, online
diagnostic methods for power cables, diagnostic
methods for machine insulation, and evaluation of
electrical insulating properties of nanocomposites.
Research on composite materials with SiC for field
grading applications is performed as an industrial
PhD project at ABB.
Reliability Centerd Asset Management
The aim is to develop methods for optimal handling
of assets in the electric power systems. The research
topics are maintenance planning and optimization
including reliability-centered maintenance methods,
reliability modeling and assessment for complex
systems, and lifetime modeling for electrical
components. The application areas are distribution
systems, transmission components (breakers, disconnectors,
transformers), hydro power, wind power,
HVDC and nuclear power.
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Fusion Plasma Physics
Research
The research at the Fusion Plasma Physics Lab is a part of the
European fusion program. It is carried out under an agreement
between EU and the Swedish Research Council (VR). The
ultimate goal of the European program is to develop fusion as an
energy source for future generations. The focus is currently on
the ITER project, an experimental fusion reactor that is under
construction in France. The start of ITER operation is planned
around the year 2018. It is planned that ITER will produce about
500 MW of fusion power (ten times more than the input power
required for heating the fusion plasma), demonstrating the feasibility
of fusion energy.
Specialization
The world’s largest fusion research facility currently in operation
is the JET device in UK. The experimental facility is collectively
used by researchers in the EU countries. The Laboratory is contributing
by providing competence with specialists in the areas of
radio frequency heating, plasma wall-interaction and diagnostics
development. Research is carried out during shorter visits to the
JET site during experimental campaigns, or during long-term
secondments to JET.
Experimental Research in support of the ITER and JET programs
are carried out at smaller specialized national fusion
facilities located throughout Europe. The Laboratory hosts the
reversed-field pinch device EXTRAP T2R. This device specializes
in research on active control methods for fusion plasmas. It is
equipped with a state-of-the-art control system installed in stages
during 2004-2006. Researchers at the Laboratory are also involved
in the construction of an active control system at the ASDEX-
Upgrade tokamak device in Germany, which is scheduled for the
initial experiments on active control in 2011.
Education
The Laboratory is a participant in the Erasmus Mundus European
Master Program in Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering
Physics (FUSION-EP). Other universities participating in the
program that was started in 2006 are Ghent University (Gent),
Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy), and Universität
Stuttgart.
♦ A new KTH Master of Science Program in Electrophysics was started, in
collaboration between Space and Plasma Physics, Fusion Plasma Physics
and Electromagnetic Engineering.
♦ The first batch of master students was graduated from the two-year
European Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Nuclear Fusion Science
and Engineering Physics. In this group, 10 students received M Sc
Diploma from KTH.
♦ Researchers at the Laboratory published 23 journal articles and 47
papers in international Conference papers.
Personnel
Professors
James Drake
Torbjörn Hellsten
Jan Scheffel
Michael Tendler
Bo Lehnert (Emeritus)
Associate Professors
Henrik Bergsåker
Per Brunsell (Head)
Marek Rubel
Einar Tennfors (Emeritus)
Researchers
Jerzy Brzozowski
Marco Cecconello
Thomas Elevant
Thomas Johnson
Martin Laxåback
Post-doctoral researcher
Lorenzo Frassinetti
Administrators
Jeanette Jansén
Ingeborg Mau
Engineers/Technicians
Gunder Hägerström
Gunnar Kindberg
Håkan Ferm
Lars Westerberg
Jesper Freiberg
PhD Students
Abdul Hannan
Kerstin Holmström
Josef Höök
Waqas Khan
Ahmed Mirza
Qaisar Mukhtar
Erik Olofsson
Per Sundelin
Research Projects
Active control of fusion plasmas
It is widely recognized that significant performance
improvement in high confinement tokamak
fusion devices is theoretically possible by using
active control methods that extend the operating
parameter range of the devices beyond the limits
put by stability requirements. Stability in this sense
refers to the balance of the magnetic forces that are
created from the electric currents in the plasma
and the confining magnetic field and the force
due to the plasma pressure gradient. If this plasma
force balance is unstable, small perturbations of the
magnetic field or the plasma pressure quickly lead
to growing asymmetries of the plasma that degrades
the magnetic confinement. Various schemes
have been proposed to actively suppress these
plasma asymmetries through externally applied
magnetic fields, thereby allowing the devices to
operate in an unstable, high performance regime.
The experimental research on active control at the
Laboratory is mainly carried out on the in-house
EXTRAP T2R reversed-field pinch fusion device.
An active control system has been installed on
EXTRAP T2R that consists of an array of 128
magnetic coils distributed over the plasma toroidal
surface (Fig. 1). The current in each magnetic
coil is determined by a computer based feedback
controller.
Figure 1. The active control system on EXTRAP T2R consisting of
an array of 128 active magnetic coils (red colour) and an array of
128 magnetic sensor loops (blue colour) distributed over the plasma
toroidal surface.
Plasma wall interaction
Plasma wall interaction comprises all processes
involved in the exchange of mass and energy
between the plasma and the surrounding wall.
Two related aspects of fusion reactor operation –
economy and safety – are the driving forces for
this research. The research is concentrated on
issues relevant for ITER with the central goal to
provide the best data for predictions of material
behavior. The major issues to be tackled in the
field of plasma-wall interactions are: (1) lifetime of
plasma-facing components (PFC), (2) accumulation
of hydrogen isotopes in PFC, (3) carbon and
metal (beryllium, tungsten) dust formation. This
activity comprises determination of material erosion,
migration and re-deposition, assessment of
fuel retention in the tokamak and development of
fuel removal techniques, broad characterization
of PFC from present-day tokamak data, testing of
materials (beryllium, carbon-based composites and
high-Z metals).
Figure 2. Image of castellated macro-brush tungsten limiter and
deposits formed inside the castellation during exposure to high heat
loads. There is a melt zone on top of the surface (see insert) indicating
that the temperature has exceeded the tungsten melting point of
3410 degrees C.
Radio frequency wave heating
The research is focused on studying control and
diagnostics of fusion plasmas by means of radio
frequency waves, in particular for heating, current
drive and excitation of waves by fast particles.
Experiments at JET are carried out to develop
radio frequency heating as a tool to control the
plasma by selective heating of ions and electrons,
driving current and induce rotation. Two computer
codes for self-consistent modelling of heating
and current drive have been developed: PION
and SELFO. The Laboratory has leading roles
in the European Topical Group of Heating and
Current Drive and the Task Force on Integrated
Modelling. This work involves coordinating the
development of codes that are to be the standard in
Europe for modelling ITER.
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Industrial Information and
Control Systems
The research at the Department of Industrial Information and
Control Systems is targeted at the development of complete and
cost-effective IT-based operation support systems for complex
industrial processes. With respect to industries, the electric power
industry accounts for more than half of the department’s engagements,
the telecommunication industry accounts for a fifth. The
remaining parts are divided among the pulp and paper, manufacturing,
railway and defense industries. With the vision of making
successful IT implementations commonplace, the department’s
research includes the system management process from conceptual
planning to operations.
There are four main areas of research. The
first area concerns the system management
processes that lead to systems with desirable
properties. We study the IT planning, operation,
and maintenance processes as well as
procurement, development, and modification
projects. The second area concerns
the system properties. The focus is on
understanding what characterizes highquality
industrial information and control
systems in terms of their performance,
availability and reliability, security,
safety, interoperability, modifiability, etc.
The third area considers the impact of
The KTH Gold Medal in
Industrial Systems Engineering
was established in 2008.
the systems, i.e. the relation between the systems and their industrial
environment in terms of requirements, utility, and costs. The
fourth and final area concerns the research tools employed for the
previous three areas. Enterprise architectural models for describing
the systems and assessment formalisms for evaluating them
are developed here.
♦ Johan Schubert being the first to receive the new, prestigious KTH Gold
Medal in Industrial Systems Engineering.
♦ The hosting of the second Enterprise Architecture Symposium.
♦ The department’s involvement in two major European projects:
EIT and VIKING.
♦ Participation in the RAE evaluation project. Industrial Information and
Control Systems was involved in two of the subject platforms – NICS
and Electric Power – and received an exceptional rating.
♦ Lars Sörqvist attaining his docent status of Excellency.
♦ One new associate professor, Lars Nordström, and two new assistant
professors, Mathias Ekstedt Lövehagen and Joakim Lilliesköld.
♦ The award of 1 PhD degree: Mårten Simonsson, Predicting IT Governance
Performance: A Method for Model-Based Decision Making.
♦ Five new PhD students.
♦ Forty-eight people completing undergraduate theses during the year.
♦ A total of thirty-eight refereed papers published or accepted.
Personnel
Professor
Torsten Cegrell (Head)
Administrator
Judith Westerlund
Associate Professors
Pontus Johnson
Lars Nordström
Assistant Professors
Joakim Lilliesköld
Mathias Ekstedt
Senior Researchers
Magnus Gammelgård
Lars Sörqvist
Erik Johansson
PhD Students
Gunnar Björkman
Moustafa Chenine
Arnis Daugulis
Hugo Eliasson
Evelina Ericsson
Ulrik Franke
Pia Gustafsson
Per Haraldsson
David Höök
Narcisa Jonsson
Johan König
Robert Lagerström
Mats B-O Larsson
Per Närman
Leonel Plazaola
Waldo Rocha Flores
Enrique Silva
Marcus Silwer
Mårten Simonsson
Teodor Sommestad
Björn Swärdenheim
Johan Ullberg
Kun Zhu
Research Projects
Management Processes
Good systems require good engineering. In this
research area, the focus is on the systems engineering
processes and methods required for the development
of information and control systems. We
devise methods and models for IT project management,
information systems development and
procurement, strategic IT planning, and IT service
delivery. The main industrial focus in this area is
on the electric power industry, but other domains
are also addressed.
The project IT Governance of Technical Support
Systems is part of this research area.
System Properties
This research area concerns the qualities, or
properties, of information and control systems. In
order to build high-quality systems, a clear understanding
is needed of what the
desirable characteristics of
a system are and how to
produce them. On a
high level, we know
that qualities such
as performance,
information security,
modifiability,
interoperability,
safety, reliability
and availability are
of importance, but how
should systems be designed
to ensure such properties? Within
this research area, we focus on understanding
these quality attributes. In order to do so, assessment
methods and modeling languages supporting
analysis and development of the various properties
are devised.
This year’s ICS annual EA symposium had over 200 participants
and was highly appriciated.
The following projects are part of this research
area:
• Component Reliability Data in Information
Systems
• Functional Fit for Maintenance Management
• Modifiability of Technical Support Systems
• Requirements on Substation Communication
• System Security in Technical Support Systems
Integration
• Interoperability of Technical Support Systems
• Performance and Availability in Wide Area
Monitoring and Control Systems
• The FP7 VIKING project
Business Impact
In order to ensure the overall quality of the systems,
it is important to consider the systems in
their context. The interaction between
the systems and the environment
can be described in
terms of business requirements
and the provided
utility. In this research
area, these issues are
considered. Methods for
business performance
and IT utility assessment,
IT cost estimation,
as well as architecture
principle specifications are
developed in this research. Furthermore,
assessment methods and
modeling languages for business and IT alignment
are constructed.
Projects in this area include:
• Benefits of Mobile Workforce Management
• Efficiency Measures in Electricity Distribution
• Automatic Meter Reading for Distribution
System Operation and Maintenance
Research Tools
The research areas covered by ICS all require tools
and theoretical frameworks for modeling and assessment
of the information and control systems in
their environment.
In this research area, the project A Tool for Enterprise
Architecture Analysis is conducted.
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Microsystem Technology
Small but Useful
The major research field of the Microsystem Technology group
(MST) is Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (MEMS/
NEMS), where micro- and nanofabrication techniques and materials
are adapted to the making of small, low-cost, high-performance
electromechanical, optoelectromechanical, RF/microwave
and micro- nano-fluidic devices.
Much of the device fabrication takes place in the KTH ELAB
laboratory. This laboratory comprises 1300 m 2 of class-100 cleanroom
area for fabrication and characterization of microelectronics,
photonics and microsystem devices.
Applications
At the MST lab, we cover a broad spectrum of application areas:
• Bio-micro-nanofluidics, where fluidic systems are used, often
combined with optical detection, to study, manipulate and analyse
liquids and biological samples such as whole blood, cells,
pathogens and nucleic acids.
• Optical systems, where optical waveguide based sensors, mirrors,
and detector arrays are combined with fluidics or electronics.
• Telecom and RF technology, where MEMS switches, tuneable metamaterial
high-impedance surfaces, phase-shifters, tuneable filters and
3D micromachined antennas are integrated with RF circuits.
• 3D-MEMS integration, where we develop generic 3D technology
platforms for packaging and heterogeneous wafer-level integration
of MEMS and integrated circuits.
Courses
EK1190 Measurement technology
EK2260 Measurement systems technology, project course
EK2350 Microsystem technology
♦ 17 journal and 29 conference papers were published or accepted.
♦ Mikael Antelius, Andreas Fischer, Mikael Karlsson, Gaspard Pardon and
Umer Shah joined the group as PhD students.
♦ Thomas Frisk successfully defended his PhD thesis.
♦ MST received a VR grant for expensive equipment of 3 MSEK for a
microwave characterization tools.
♦ The European FP7 collaborative research projects ICU*, TUMESA and
INTOPSENS* were granted.
♦ During 2008 the MST group participated in an additional six European
research projects (Q2M*, SABIO, PHODYE, EURIMUS-PIMS, FNIR, 4M),
one Nordic (NORDITE-SARFA*) and two Swedish collaborative projects
(IVSS-PIMS, Vinnova–MEMS switch arrays for telecommunication).
(*coordinated by the MST lab.)
♦ In 2008 the lab’s research quality was assessed by KTH in the RAE
study in which the international panel rated MST 4.6/5, being among
the highest at KTH. Our publications were found to be cited 2.22 times
more than the average in the field, with 17.15% amongst the top most
5% cited publications.
Personnel
Professor
Göran Stemme (Head)
Lab Administrator
Erika Appel
Associate Professors
Joachim Oberhammer
Wouter van der Wijngaart
Assistant Professor
Hans Sohlström
Research Associates
Frank Niklaus
Niclas Roxhed
Research Engineer
Kjell Norén
PhD Students
Mikael Antelius
Stefan Braun
Carl Fredrik Carlborg
Adit Decharat
Andreas Fischer
Fredrik Forsberg
Henrik Gradin
Kristinn B. Gylfason
Mikael Karlsson
Martin Lapisa
Gaspard Pardon
Farizah Saharil
Niklas Sandström
Umer Shah
Nutapong Somjit
Mikael Sterner
Research Projects
Airborne Pathogen Detector
The aim of this cross-disciplinary effort with the
Karolinska Institute and Linköping University is
to detect pathogens in the breath of an individual
or in room air. This may allow quick detection of
health threatening conditions. Sponsors: SSF, Vinnova
and VR.
Optical Waveguide Sensors
SABIO, PHODYE and INTOPSENS are
European research projects in FP6 and FP7,
where chips with micro- and nanoscale optical
waveguides are used for label-free sensing purposes.
INTOPSENS focuses on the identification of
bacteria and their antibiotic susceptibility in whole
blood, SABIO on HepB antibody detection in serum.
In PHODYE the waveguides are combined
with gas sensing materials for NO gas sensing.
Low-friction Fluidic Surfaces
Drag in liquid flows is a limiting factor in many
applications: energy conversion, propulsion, lubrication,
etc. This project reduces those losses by
controlling the viscous drag and turbulence using
MEMS active surfaces. Sponsor: VR.
Water droplet on polymer micropillars
Fuel Cell Membranes with Nanopores
This project exploits tuning and enhancement of
ionic transport mechanisms in liquids confined
within nanopores, with a focus on fuel cell applications.
Sponsor: VR.
MEMS Microwave Correlation Spectroscopy
This novel method to analyze interactions of polar
molecules in aqueous solution uses RF waveguides
embedded in the biological sample. Sponsor: VR.
Manufacturing with High Quality Active Materials
Q2M is a European research project in FP6, coordinated
by the MST group, and focuses on the
efficient wafer-scale integration of high performance
sensor and actuator materials, including PZT,
SMA and monocrystalline silicon, on prefabricated
micromachined substrates.
Avoiding Traffic Injuries with IR Vision
More than 12000 pedestrians and cyclists are killed
in the EU every year. Many of these accidents
could be avoided with technical system that warn
and assist the driver. PIMS, FNIR (FP7) and ICU
(FP7) are European research projects to detect
traffic hazards with next generation low cost infrared
night vision systems.
Automotive Radar
SARFA is a project in the NORDITE Scandinavian
ICT program, focused on RF MEMS for 77
GHz automotive radar. Coordinated by MST, the
project involves NTNU Trondheim, TKK Espoo/
Helsinki and industrial partners. Sponsors: Vinnova,
Tekes, RCN.
MEMS tuneable metamaterial surfaces for remote
sensing applications
Surface-integrated distributed MEMS actuators
allow for tuneing metamaterial surfaces such as
high-impedance surfaces, which enables beam
steering in radar applications. In the project TU-
MESA funded through the EU FP7, this is investigated
for car radar applications.
Switch Arrays for Telecom Network
Reconfiguration
This is an industrially oriented project to develop
large arrays of switches on a single chip for reconfiguration
of telecom networks. In this project we
are collaborating with Network Automation and
Silex Microsystems. Sponsor: Vinnova.
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Signal Processing
The chair in Signal Processing was founded in 1991. An industrial
donation from Ericsson and Telia has served as the financial
base of this chair until recently.
Education
In collaboration with the Communication Theory Lab, the Signal
Processing Lab is responsible for education in the signal processing
and communication areas. Fourteen undergraduate courses
are given every year, most of them at masters level. We are
responsible for a two-year masters program in Wireless Systems,
which is the most popular one at KTH. Approximately 25 master
theses are completed annually in this area.
Research
Our research activities span from fundamental research in signal
processing and information theory to applied research in wireless
systems, digital communications, navigation, measurement
technology, and real-time implementation.
♦ Prof Björn Ottersten received a research grant from the European
Research Council for a project called “Agile MIMO Systems for Communications,
Biomedicine, and Defense.” The grant supports “excellent
and innovative research” led by established excellent researchers. Only
105 projects were awarded among one thousand applications.
♦ Eduard Jorswieck was appointed full Professor for Communication
Theory, at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
♦ Prof Peter Händel received the Golden Moose Award from the
Älgskadefondföreningen for a moose early warning system based on
far-infrared technology. The system is to be used to alert drivers on the
presence of moose along the road, and thereby avoid accidents.
♦ Prof Ana Perez-Neira from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC),
Barcelona, Spain, joined the lab as guest professor for half a year.
♦ Alessio De Angelis from University of Perugia, joined the lab during 6
months.
♦ Han Shengqian, a visiting PhD-student, for the period November 08 –
January 09.
♦ Yongming Huang, CSC scholar from Southeast University, Nanjing,
China, joined the group.
♦ Joel Grotz, Pandu Devarkota and Xi Zhang earned the PhD-degrees.
Personnel
Professors
Peter Händel (Head)
Björn Ottersten
Ana Perez Neira (Guest Prof)
Associate Professors
Mats Bengtsson
Magnus Jansson
Research Associate
Eduard Jorswieck
Financial Administrator
Annika Augustsson
Post-doctoral researchers
Shankar Bhavani
Yongming Huang
Xi Zhang
Researchers
Björn Lindmark
Per Zetterberg
PhD Students
Svante Bergman, Emil Björnson
Pandu Devarakota, Joel Grotz
Niklas Jaldén, Simon Järmyr
Per Landin, Samer Medawar
Marc Mowlér, Charles Nader
Senay Negusse, John-Olof Nilsson
Sathyaveer Prasad, Prasad Ramachandran
Nafiseh Shariati, Isaac Skog
Peter von Wrycza, Petter Wirfält
Jinghong Yang, Dave Zachariah
Research Projects
Multi-antenna Wireless Communication
Next generation wireless systems will use multiple
antennas at both the base station and user
terminals. The performance of such systems can
be improved by using channel information at the
transmitters, at the expense of increased control
signaling. We have therefore proposed a number
of strategies to achieve similar gains with a minimum
of feedback and to provide robustness to
channel uncertainty. For systems with DFE based
receivers, robust precoders have been proposed,
that can be based on long-term channel statistics.
For systems with (near) ML receivers, a latticebased
precoding approach has been proposed. A
combination of long-term channel statistics with
heavily quantized information of the channel
gain, can be used for both scheduling and spatial
processing in multi-user scenarios. A popular
alternative is opportunistic beamforming, where
we have studied feedback reduction techniques
and the optimal choice of the number of simultaneous
data streams. When several systems share
the same spectrum, distributed adaptive channel
allocation can be obtained based on individual utility
functions. The equilibria of such schemes have
been analyzed based on game theory. Modifications
of the utility functions have been proposed to
improve the overall spectrum utilization.
Statistical Signal Processing
Estimation of covariance matrices is often an integral
part in many signal processing algorithms. In
MIMO communications or in signal modeling of
EEG data the covariance matrix can sometimes be
modeled as the Kronecker product of two smaller
covariance matrices. These smaller matrices may
also be structured, e.g., being Toeplitz or at least
persymmetric. Recently we proposed a closed form
maximum likelihood (ML) based method for the
estimation of the Kronecker factor matrices. We
also extended the method to be able to impose the
persymmetric constraint into the estimator. Numerical
examples show an excellent performance
even for very small sample sizes. The associated
structural detection problem was also discussed.
Measuring and combating effects of dirty radio
The development of contemporary and future
wireless communication systems puts high demands
on accurate and time-efficient test methods
for production and product validation. Efficient
measurement methods are also a prerequisite for
digital correction to combat impairments produced
by the analog circuitry, including IQ-mixers,
analog-digital converters, and power amplifiers.
We are interested in studying the impact of the
radio-frequency front-end impairments on the
performance of contemporary and future wireless
communication. Our work span from basic
research in estimation theory to link-level performance
evaluations and system implementation
on our USRP-based MIMO testbed.
Navigation Systems
In-car navigation has been a killer application
for GPS receivers, and a variety of electronics for
consumers and professionals have been launched
on a large scale. Positioning technologies based
on stand-alone GPS receivers are vulnerable and,
thus, have to be supported by additional information
sources to obtain the desired accuracy, integrity,
availability, and continuity of service. It is
possible to save many lives in future rescue operations
by developing a robust personnel-positioning
system with high accuracy and availability. Robust
communication and
positioning systems
are eagerly awaited
for by rescue personnel.
These systems
have the potential to
increase their safety in
many critical operation
scenarios such as
natural disasters,
terrorist attacks, as
well as for police and
military users. Within
the laboratory, we
perform basic research
in sensor fusion by a
plurality of sensors
(IMU, GPS, UWBpositioning,
and
cameras), time synchronization in loosely coupled
navigation systems, to application-oriented work
for advanced driver assistance systems to classification
of railroad curvature.
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UWB-equipment

Sound and Image Processing
The research and education conducted by the Sound and Image
Processing (SIP) Lab focuses on the processing of audio and video
signals, including coding, enhancement and machine recognition.
The work includes fundamental theory as well as applications.
Research at SIP is generally performed in collaboration in the
context of pan-European projects and/or with industry.
The following courses are offered to undergraduate students:
EN2100 Sound Perception
EN2200 Pattern Recognition
EN2300 Speech Signal Processing
EN2400 Image Processing
EN2500 Information Theory and Source Coding
We also offer PhD level courses in these topics.
♦ Four journal papers and eleven conference papers were published
during 2008.
♦ Guoqiang Zhang won one of only three best student paper awards
at ICASSP 2008 for the paper entitled “Autoregressive Model-Based
Speech Packet-Loss Concealment”.
♦ Three senior researchers joined the group. Markus Flierl and Sila
Ekmekci Flierl arrived in August. Markus has started the build-up of a
new video processing team. Saikat Chatterjee arrived from the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore in November. He is working as a postdoc
in the ACORNS project.
♦ Three new PhD students arrived in the middle of the year: Obada Alhaj
Moussa , Pravin Kumar Rana and Nasser Mohammadiha.
♦ Three visitors stayed at SIP for an extended period. Prof. T.V. Sreenivas
of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore visited SIP for five months.
He worked on compressive sensing of speech signals. Prof. Miguel A.
Ramirez of the University of São Paulo visited SIP for three months,
working on waveform interpolation. Ruicong Zhi came to SIP as a visiting
PhD student in September, she is working on the recognition of
facial expressions.
♦ Six students completed their Master’s thesis.
Personnel
Professors
Bastiaan Kleijn (Head)
Arne Leijon
Post-doctoral researchers
Saikat Chatterjee
Jianghua Zhong
Administrator
Dora Söderberg
Researchers
Sila Ekmekci
Markus Flierl
PhD Students
Obada Alhaj Moussa,
Anders Ekman
Gustav Henter
Jesper Jerkert
Janusz Klejsa
Chris Koniaris
Ermin Kozica
Pravin Kumar Rana
Minyue Li
Zhanyu Ma
Nasser Mohammadiha
Petko Petkov
Jan Plasberg
Svante Stadler
Guoqiang Zhang
Research Projects
Video Communication over IP Networks
Live communication of a single source to a large
number of receivers over a packet-switched
network, such as the Internet, poses an interesting
set of problems. Considerations such as network
utilization, receiver fairness, perceived distortion
and packet-loss robustness define a range of system
requirements that in most cases are contradictory.
In our work, we consider communication systems
that use multicast to minimize unnecessary network
link load. Multicast holds most promise for
communication of sources that are coded at a high
bit-rate, e.g. video, making any redundancy on
network links costly in terms of possible performance
losses. However, despite its positive characteristics,
utilization of multicast incurs a penalty in
terms of a limitation on the possibility to adapt to
individual receiver capabilities. Our work provides
analytical results for real-time optimization of
multicast systems.
Multicast delivers video at several quality settings simultaneously.
3D Video Coding
The capture and rendering of 3D video is rapidly
evolving. Initial applications are likely within the
entertainment and information fields, but a multitude
of further application areas will follow. This
means that the demand for the transmission of 3D
video is likely to start growing rapidly in the not
too distant future. Collaborating with Ericsson, we
are developing signal processing algorithms for 3D
video coding and rendering. These algorithms will
be at the heart of next-generation visual communication.
Hearing Instruments
Many people experience severe limitations in
their communication activities, caused either by
hearing loss or by poor environmental conditions.
The rapid advance in embedded DSP technology
has made it possible for modern hearing aids and
cochlear implants to include a range of advanced
processing capabilities such as beam forming
microphone arrays, noise reduction, and automatic
controls. Within a European collaboration project
we have developed and evaluated noise-reduction
algorithms for hearing aids. We have also developed
a high-quality audio coder with very low
delay, for audio transmission between hearing aids
and other personal audio equipment. Our modelling
work on the electrical information transmission
from implanted electrodes to the auditory
nerve cells will help us improve the signal-coding
methods to facilitate speech communication for
cochlear-implant users.
Handling Imperfect Packet Networks: Multiple
Description Coding and Jitter Buffers
Audio and video content is commonly transmitted
through packet networks for purposes that include
streaming, broadcasting and teleconferencing.
Disturbance of the transmission by packet loss
and delay jitter affects the quality perceived by the
user. At SIP, we are working on robust transmission
schemes employing multiple description coding
(MDC). MDC schemes aim at combating the
packet losses by exploiting network diversity and
redundancy. We focus on finding flexible schemes
of low computational complexity that can adapt
to varying network conditions and user-specified
quality in real time. We also have developed
performance bounds of MDC schemes in order to
better understand the performance level of practical
implementations.. In addition to our work on
MDC, we also work on algorithms that minimize
the impact of transmission delay jitter. This work
has led to jitter-buffer control algorithms that optimize
the trade-off between distortion and delay.
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Space and Plasma Physics
Research
Our research involves plasmas in space as well as in the laboratory.
The vast majority of our universe is plasma. The only (but
obviously important) exception is cold solid bodies like planets,
comets, and asteroids. Thus, plasma physics has universal applications.
A combination of laboratory experiments and space experiments
as well as theory and numerical simulation produce fruitful research.
We play an active role in a number of international space
missions, building instruments, planning instrument operations,
and analyzing data.
Education
We participate actively in the educational program. At the MSc
level a number of courses are given and MSc thesis projects are
offered, often closely related to on-going research activities. At
the PhD level we offer thesis projects in space and laboratory
plasma physics.
♦ Cluster continues to be a highly productive space project. Results were
presented in nine papers published 2008, four papers in press as of
2008-12-31, and many conference contributions of which four were
invited.
♦ Work is on-going for providing 18 electric field detectors, wire boom
units, and five low voltage power supplies for the NASA MMS mission.
During 2008 the preliminary design of both electronic and mechanical
elements was completed.
♦ The HiPIMS magnetron research was very productive in 2008. The
breakthrough was a paper reaching the top 3% of articles downloaded
from the Institute of Physics journals, and chosen as an “impact paper
2008”.
♦ Dust-plasma interaction in Saturn’s E ring is a new interesting research
project run in collaboration with IRF-Uppsala and using satellite data
from the Cassini spacecraft.
♦ A new KTH Master of Science Program in Electrophysics was started, in
collaboration between Space and Plasma Physics, Fusion Plasma Physics,
and Electromagnetic Engineering.
♦ Two licentiate theses, Fine-scale morphology and spectral characteristics
of active aurora, by H. Dahlgren, and Experiments with and
modeling of explosively driven magnetic flux compression generators,
by P. Appelgren, and four MSc theses were completed in 2008.
♦ A total of 30 refereed papers were published 2008 and 28 presentations,
ten of which were invited lectures, were given at conferences,
workshops, and seminars at foreign research institutes.
Personnel
Professors
Lars Blomberg (Head)
Nils Brenning
Göran Marklund
Carl-Gunne Fälthammar (Emeritus)
Lecturers/Researchers
Judy Cumnock
Nickolay Ivchenko
Tomas Karlsson
Per-Arne Lindqvist
Michael Raadu
Giorgio Regnoli
Svetlana Ratynskaia
Post-doctoral researchers
Silvia Annibaldi
Marie Backrud Ivgren
Administrator
Johanna Warnander
Engineers/Technicians
Lars Bylander
Ola Carlström
Sverker Christenson
Anders Hurula
Göran Olsson
Kjäll Olsson
Stig Rydman
PhD Students
Patrik Appelgren
Hanna Dahlgren
Sónia Liléo
Cecilia Möller
Jonas Olson
Soheil Sadeghi
Torbjörn Sundberg
Research Projects
Auroral Physics
Aurora is the only signature of the plasma processes
in the ionosphere that is visible to the naked
eye. Whereas the large-scale morphology and
optical properties of aurora are well known the
underlying processes giving rise to the accelerated
electrons that precipitate into the atmosphere
and cause the emissions are not fully explored.
We study auroral processes from satellites, e.g.,
Astrid-2, Freja, Viking, and the auroral fine structure
from the ground, using the newly developed
ASK instrument. The studies are supplemented
by global auroral images from the Polar spacecraft.
The dynamics of the auroral current circuit is
studied using numerical models.
Magnetospheric Physics
The research focuses on the dynamics of the Terrestrial
magnetosphere and the dependence of the
magnetosphere on the solar wind and its variability.
Our activities deal with high-altitude signatures
of auroral acceleration regions, plasma penetration
and anomalous transport, plasma convection in the
magnetotail, the transpolar potential and its connection
to the magnetopause, and ULF waves and
pulsations. Currently the main source of new data
from the magnetosphere is the ESA Cluster mission
with four identical satellites orbiting the Earth
in formation. We participate actively in the data
analysis as well as in the operations planning. We
also run laboratory experiments in collaboration
with West Virginia University to further study
anomalous transport. Hardware development for
the NASA MMS mission is underway.
Solar System Plasma Physics
The research concerns the plasma environments
of solar system bodies other than Earth as well as
the Sun and the Solar wind. Research interests
include: solar wind interaction with magnetized
and non-magnetized solid bodies, planetary magnetospheres,
moon-magnetosphere interaction,
and solar wind structure. The Rosetta spacecraft
flew by Asteroid Steins in September 2008 on its
long journey towards comet 67/P Churyumov-
Gerasimenko. We built part of the electronics
for a Langmuir probe on Rosetta. Our next solar
system mission is BepiColombo where we are responsible
for an instrument to measure the electric
field in the Mercury magnetosphere.
Complex Plasmas
Complex (“dusty”) plasmas consist of ions, electrons
and small solid particles (dust grains) that are
charged by their interaction with the electrons and
ions. They are of special interest, since they can
form liquid and crystalline states, plasma crystals,
and the dynamics of the charged dust grains are
directly observable. In Earth based experiments
gravity plays a dominant role and the grains usually
accumulate in restricted regions. Under microgravity,
in the orbiting space station, the grains
move freely in the bulk of the plasma and a wealth
of new phenomena has been observed. We participate
in experiments on the International Space
Stations and also investigate dust in the Saturnian
ring system.
HiPIMS - “Applied Plasma Physics”: New possibilities are opened
by changing from conventional dc magnetron sputtering (DC-MS)
to the HiPIMS technique.
Applied Plasma Physics
Applied plasma physics is an extremely wide field,
with applications ranging from high power plasma
torches used for cutting and melting to production
of structures on the nano-scale. Plasma medicine,
plasma biology, and plasma environmental physics
are other emerging subjects of rapidly growing
interest and impact. A new research topic is
HiPIMS (High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering)
where we have already been able to make
important contributions.
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Doctoral Theses
Automatic Control
Communication Networks
Communication Theory
Electric Power Systems
Märta Barenthin Syberg
Complexity Issues, Validation and Input Design
for Control in System Identification
Krister Jacobsson
Dynamic modeling of Internet congestion control
Niels Möller
Window-based congestion control – Modeling,
analysis and design
Alberto Gonzalez Prieto
Adaptive Real-time Monitoring for Large-scale
Networked Systems
Ignacio Más
On Admission Control for IP Networks Based on
Probing
Jing Fu
On the Design of Next-Generation Routers and IP
Networks
Niklas Wernersson
Source-Channel Coding in Networks
Tùng T. Kim
Limited Feedback Information in Wireless Communications:
Transmission Schemes and Performance
Bounds
Daniel Salomonsson
Modeling, Control and Protection of Low-Voltage
DC Microgrids
Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
Florence Meier
Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machines with
Non-Overlapping Concentrated Windings for Low-
Speed Direct-Drive Applications
Electromagnetic Engineering
Jun Song
Electromagnetic simulation and design of etched
diffraction grating demultiplexers
Mohsen Torabzadeh-Tari
Dimensioning Tools of MEA Actuator Systems
Jörgen Ramprecht
Electromagnetic Waves in Media with
Ferromagnetic Losses
Cecilia Forssén
Modelling of cavity partial discharges at variable
applied frequency
Tommie Lindquist
On reliability and maintenance modelling of ageing
equipment in electric power systems
Patrik Hilber
Maintenance Optimization for Power Distribution
Systems
Industrial Information and Control Systems
Microsystem Technology
Signal Processing
Mårten Simonsson
Predicting IT Governance Performance:
A Method for Model-Based Decision Making
Thomas Frisk
MEMS interfaces for bioanalysis systems
Joel Grotz
Interference Mitigation and Synchronization for
Satellite Communications
Xi Zhang
Transceiver Design for Multiple Antenna
Communication Systems with Imperfect Channel
State Information
Pandu Devarakota
Classification and Localization of Vehicle Occupants
using 3D Range Images
Licentiate Theses
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Automatic Control
Communication Networks
Communication Theory
Electric Power Systems
Per Sahlholm
Iterative Road Grade Estimation for Heavy Duty
Vehicle Control
Camilla Trané
Robustness Analysis of Intracellular Oscillators with
Application to the Circadian Clock
Vladimir Vukadinovic
Bit-Rate Allocation, Scheduling, and Statistical
Multiplexing for Wireless Video Streaming
Johannes Karlsson
Low-Delay Sensing and Transmission in Wireless
Sensor Networks
Majid Nasiri Khormuji
Relaying Protocols for Wireless Networks
Karin Alvehag
Impact of Dependencies in Risk Assessments of
Power Distribution Systems
Lars Abrahamsson
Railway Power Supply Models and Methods for
Longterm Investment Analysis
Robert Eriksson
Security-centered Coordinated Control in AC/DC
Transmission Systems
Héctor F. Latorre S.
A Multichoice Control Strategy for a VSC-HVdc
Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
Electromagnetic Engineering
Space and Plasma Physics
Samer Shisha
Analysis of Inverter-fed Losses on the Solid Rotor of
Large-scale Synchronous Machines
Nicklas Johansson
Control of dynamically assisted phase-shifting
transformers
Carl Johan Wallnerström
On Risk Management of Electrical Distribution
Systems and the Impact of Regulations
Patrik Appelgren
Experiments with and modeling of explosively
driven magnetic flux compression generators
Hanna Dahlgren
Fine-scale morphology and spectral characteristics
of active aurora

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Maben Rabi, Karl H. Johansson, Mikael Johansson, ”Optimal Stopping
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Alessandro Pinto, Massimiliano D’Angelo, Carlo Fischione, Elco Scholte,
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Carlo Fischione, Luigi Pomante, Fortunato Santucci, Claudia Rinaldi,
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Björn Johansson, Tamas Keviczky, Karl H. Johansson, Mikael Johansson,
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Märta Barenthin Syberg, Complexity Issues, Validation and Input Design
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Krister Jacobsson, Dynamic modeling of Internet congestion control, 2008.
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Per Sahlholm, Iterative Road Grade Estimation for Heavy Duty Vehicle
Control, 2008.
Camilla Trané, Robustness Analysis of Intracellular Oscillators with Application
to the Circadian Clock, 2008.
MASTER THESES
Michele Passerini, Design of an ECMA368 simulator for evaluating network
performance for electrical substation applications based on IEC61850,
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Stefan Gisler, Experimental tests of a flocking algorithm, 2008.
Maisam Jeddi Tehrani, Pressure Control of a Pneumatic Actuator Using On/
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Vidar Steinsland, Modelling of Retarder, 2008.
Hwakyung Kim, Graphical User Interface of an Interactive System for Wireless
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Camilla Ljungström, Manipulator, Mounting and Integration, and Communication
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Axel Cornell, Probabilistic fault isolation in embedded systems using
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Bernardo Maciel, Development of a Detection System using a Wireless
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Niklas Willemsen, Estimating Rotational Speed with a Phase- Locked Loop,
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Marco Belleschi, Cross-layer optimization protocols in Ad-hoc networks:
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Carlo Snickars, Design of a wirelessHART simulator for studying delay
compensation in networked control system, 2008.
Angela Lu Quilisch, Object Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Kaplan
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Anders Riber Gunnarson, System Identification with MathModelica, 2008
Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Protocol design and implementation for wireless
sensor networks, 2008.
Anders Selhammer, Probabilistic fault isolation in embedded systems using
prior knowledge of the system, 2008.
Johan König, Cylinder-Pressure Based Injector Calibration for Diesel Engines,
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Communication Theory
JOURNAL PAPERS
Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Erik G. Larsson, ”Rate-Optimized Constellation
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Sha Yao, Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Mikael Skoglund, ”Sawtooth Relaying”, IEEE
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Bin Hu, Ingmar Land, Lars Rasmussen, Romain Piton, Bernard H. Fleury, ”A
divergence minimization approach to joint multiuser decoding for coded
CDMA”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, (no. 3,)
pp. 432-445, (apr) 2008.
Tùng T. Kim, Mikael Skoglund, Giuseppe Caire, ”On Cooperative Source
Transmission with Partial Rate and Power Control”, IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, vol. 26, (oct) 2008.
Mikael Skoglund, Erik Larsson, ”Optimal modulation for known interference”,
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56 pp. 1892-1899, (dec)
2008.
Johannes Karlsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Design and Performance of Optimized
Relay Mappings”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, (sep) 2008.
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Construction for Iterative Source-Channel Decoding”, IEEE Transactions on
Communications, (may) 2008. Accepted.
Niklas Wernersson, Johannes Karlsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Distributed
Quantization over Noisy Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Communications,
(feb) 2008. Accepted.
Allen Chuang, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Lars Rasmussen, Iain B. Collings,
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channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, (no. 9,), (sep)
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Fredrik Brännström, Lars Rasmussen, Alex J. Grant, ”Optimal puncturing ratios
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Tùng T. Kim, Mikael Skoglund, Giuseppe Caire, ”Quantifying the Loss of
Compress-Forward Relaying without Wyner-Ziv Coding”, IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory, (nov) 2008. Accepted.
Ming Xiao, Tor Aulin, ”On the Bit Error Probability of Noisy Channel Networks
with Intermediate Node Encoding”, IEEE Transactions on Information
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Tùng T. Kim, Giuseppe Caire, ”Diversity Gains of Power Control with Noisy
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2008. Accepted.
Tùng T. Kim, Giuseppe Caire, Mikael Skoglund, ”Decode-and-Forward
Relaying with Quantized Channel State Feedback: An Outage Exponent
Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, (oct) 2008.
Tobias J. Oechtering, Rafael F. Wyrembelski, Holger Boche, ”Multi-Antenna
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Yi Hong, Lars Rasmussen, ”Iterative switched-decoding for interleave-division
multiple-access systems”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
vol. 57, (no. 3,) pp. 1939-1944, (may) 2008.
Khoa D. Nguyen, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Lars Rasmussen, ”Power Allocation
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Transactions on Wireless Communications, (dec) 2008. Accepted.
Tùng T. Kim, Mats Bengtsson, Erik G. Larsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Combining
Long-term and Low-rate Short-term Channel State Information over Correlated
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Alex J. Grant, Lars Rasmussen, Iterative Techniques, Advances in Multiuser
Detection, Wiley and Son, 2008, Accepted, to be published May-June 2009.
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Ingmar Land, Lars Rasmussen, Alex J. Grant, ”Shaping EXIT functions of
turbo codes”, Australian Communications Theory Workshop, pp. 119-124,
2008.
Lars Rasmussen, Peng Hui Tan, ”Recursive interference cancellation based
on simplified belief propagation”, Australian Communications Theory
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Lars Rasmussen, ”Linear detection in iterative joint multiuser decoding”,
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Khoa D. Nguyen, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Lars Rasmussen, ”Asymptotic
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Symposium on Information Theory, 2008.
Khoa D. Nguyen, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Lars Rasmussen, ”Power control
for block-fading channels with peak-to-average power constraints”, IEEE
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Chia-Lung Wu, Po-Ning Chen, Yunghsiang S. Han, ”A self-orthogonal code
and its maximum-likelihood decoder for combined channel estimation and
error protection”, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and
its Applications 2008, 2008. Accepted.
Johannes Karlsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Design and Performance of Optimized
Relay Mappings”, Int. Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Communications
and Networking, 2008.
Ragnar Thobaben, ”Joint Network/Channel Coding for Multi-User Hybrid-
ARQ”, International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding (SCC),
2008.
Gottfried Lechner, Ingmar Land, Lars Rasmussen, ”Decoding of LDPC codes
with binary vector messages and scalable complexity”, International Symposium
on Turbo Codes and Applications, pp. 350-355, 2008.
Lei Bao, Mikael Skoglund, Karl Henrik Johansson, ”On iterative system design
and separation in control over noisy channels”, Proc. of the 17th IFAC
World Congress, 2008.
Ragnar Thobaben, ”On Distributed Codes with Noisy Relays”, Proceedings
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, 2008.
Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Mikael Skoglund, ”Two-hop transmission with
second-hop channel state information”, Proceedings IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2008. Accepted.
Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Mikael Skoglund, ”The relay channel with partial
causal state information”, Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2008. Accepted.
Johannes Karlsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Joint Source-Channel Mappings for
the Relay Channel”, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing, 2008.
Sha Yao, Mikael Skoglund, ”Dimension Compression Relaying for Slow
Fading Channels based on Hybrid Digital-Analog Source-Channel Coding”,
Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications,
2008.
Ragnar Thobaben, Laurent Schmalen, Peter Vary, ”Joint Source-Channel
Coding with Inner Irregular Codes”, Proceedings IEEE International Symposium
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Ming Xiao, Tor Aulin, Muriel Médard, ”Systematic Binary Deterministic
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Jinfeng Du, Svante Signell, ”Pulse Shape Adaptivity in OFDM/OQAM
Systems”, Proceedings International Conference on Advanced Infocomm
Technology, 2008.
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Niklas Wernersson, Source-Channel Coding in Networks, 2008.
Tùng T. Kim, Limited Feedback Information in Wireless Communications:
Transmission Schemes and Performance Bounds, 2008.
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Mattias Ernelli, Loop qualification for VDSL2, 2008.
Ali Abbas Zaidi, Rate Maximizing Mappings for Memoryless Relay, 2008.
Xun Qiu, Multiuser Detection for the Evolution of Speech Services in GSM,
2008.
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Jonas Israelsson, Analysis of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Transmissions
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2008.
Aamir Shahzad, Impact of SNR mismatch in MAP detection, 2008.
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György Dán, Viktória Fodor, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Robust Source-Channel
Coding for Real-time Multimedia”, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, vol.
13, (no. 5-6,) pp. 363-377, (feb) 2008.
Fetahi Wuhib, Mads Dam, Rolf Stadler, ”Decentralized Detection of Global
Threshold Crossings Using Aggregation Trees”, Computer Networks, vol. 52
pp. 1745-1761, (feb) 2008.
Fetahi Wuhib, Mads Dam, Rolf Stadler, Alexander Clemm, ”Robust Monitoring
of Network-wide Aggregates through Gossiping”, IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management, (mar) 2008.
Jing Fu, Peter Sjödin, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Loop-Free Updates of Forwarding
Tables”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM),
vol. 5, (no. 1,), (jul) 2008.
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Jing Fu, Jennifer Rexford (2008), ’Efficient IP-Address Lookup with a Shared
Forwarding Table for Multiple Virtual Routers’, Proc. ACM CoNEXT 2008.
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Real-time Monitoring”, Proc. 2nd ACM Workshop on Large-scale Distributed
Systems and Middleware (LADIS’08), IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown, NY, USA, Sept 15 – 17, 2008.
Jing Fu, Peter Sjödin, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Traffic Engineering and Routing in
IP Networks with Centralized Control”, Proc. IFIP Networking 2008.
Jing Fu, Peter Sjödin, Gunnar Karlsson (2008), “Convergence of Intra-Domain
Routing with Centralized Control,” Proc. IFIP Networking 2008.
Hector Velayos, Gunnar Karlsson, ”A Distribution System for Large Scale
IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs”, Proc. 16th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan
Area Networks (LANMAN), 2008.
Ólafur Ragnar Helgason, Kristján Valur Jónsson, ”Opportunistic Networking
in OMNeT++”, Proc. 1st International Workshop on OMNeT++, 2008.
Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Narrowcasting:
An Empirical Performance Evaluation Study”, Proc. ACM MOBICOM
CHANTS Workshop, 2008.
Jing Fu, Peter Sjödin, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Towards Distributed Router
Architectures and Centralized Control Architectures in IP Networks”, Proc.
Euro-NF Future Internet Architecture, 2008.
Viktoria Fodor, Ilias Chatzidrossos, ”Playback delay in mesh-based peer-topeer
systems with random packet forwarding”, Proc. IEEE Future Multimedia
Networks, 2008.
Jing Fu, Peter Sjödin, Gunnar Karlsson, ”Two Stage IP-address Lookup in
Distributed Routers”, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM High-Speed Networks Workshop,
2008.
Franck Legendre, Vincent Lenders, Martin May, Gunnar Karlsson, ”The
Limits of Theory: Pragmatic Challenges in Mobile Ad Hoc Systems”, Proc.
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
(PIMRC), 2008, Invited Paper.
Ólafur Ragnar Helgason, Gunnar Karlsson, ”On the Effect of Cooperation in
Wireless Content Distribution”, Proc. of IEEE/IFIP WONS 2008, 2008
György Dán, Viktória Fodor, ”Delay Bounds and Scalability in Overlay Multicast”,
Proc. IFIP Networking, 2008.
Ignacio Más, Gunnar Karlsson, ”A model for Endpoint Admission Control
Based on Packet Loss”, Proc. IFIP Networking, 2008.
Ilias Chatzidrossos, Viktoria Fodor, ”On the effect of free-riders in P2P
streaming systems”, Proc. International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice
IP Networks (QoSIP), 2008.
György Dán, ”Cooperative Caching and Relaying Strategies for Peer-to-peer
Content Delivery”, Proc. IPTPS, 2008.
Viktoria Fodor, Ioannis Glaropoulos, ”On the gains of deterministic placement
and coordinated activation in sensor networks with full coverage”,
Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008.
Vladimir Vukadinovic, Jörg Huschke, ”Statistical multiplexing gains of
H.264/AVC video in E-MBMS”, Proc. Int. Symp. Wireless Pervasive Computing
(ISWPC), 2008.
Konstantinos Katsaros, Pantelis Frangoudis, George Polyzos, Gunnar Karlsson,
”Design Challenges of Open Spectrum Access”, Proc. First IEEE International
Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRNETS), 2008.
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Alberto Gonzalez Prieto, Adaptive Real-time Monitoring for Large-scale
Networked Systems, PhD Thesis 2008.
Jing Fu, On the Design of Next-Generation Routers and IP Networks, PhD
Thesis 2008.
Ignacio Más, On Admission Control for IP Networks Based on Probing, PhD
Thesis 2008.
LICENTIATE THESIS
Vladimir Vukadinovic, Bit-Rate Allocation, Scheduling, and Statistical Multiplexing
for Wireless Video Streaming, Lic. thesis 2008.
MASTER THESES
Muzzamil Aziz Chaudhary, Embedded mobile web services for sensor
equipped ultra-low cost short-ranged mobile terminals, 2008.
Ralitsa Kostadinova, Peer to peer video streaming, 2008.
Geng Yu, Broadband traffic data analysis, 2008.
Ioannis Glaropoulos, Sensor network dimensioning, 2008.
Anders Järnberg, Integrating public mobile services in a crisis management
system, 2008.
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Thomas Ackermann, Eva Centeno-Lopez, Lennart Söder, Grid Issues for Electricity
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International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into
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Rujiroj Leelaruji, Valerijs Knazkins., ”Modeling Adequacy for Cascading
Failure Analysis”, AUPEC 2008, 2008.
Lars Abrahamsson, Lennart Söder, ”Fast Estimation of the Relation between
Aggregated Train Power System Information and the Power and Energy
Converted”, AUPEC 2008, 2008.
Karin Alvehag, ”Considering Extreme Outage Events in Cost-benefit Analysis
of Distribution Systems”, AUPEC2008, Sydney, Australia, 2008.
Katherine Elkington, Mehrdad Ghandhari, Lennart Söder, ”Using Power
System Stabilisers in Doubly Fed Induction Generators”, Australasian Universities
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Lars Abrahamsson, Lennart Söder, ”Fast Estimation of Aggregated Results
of Many Load Flow Solutions in Electric Traction Systems”, Computers in
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Mikael Amelin, ”Simulation of Trading Arrangements Impact on Wind
Power Imbalance Costs”, PMAPS 2008 Proceedings, 2008.
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Model for Distribution Systems”, PMAPS, Rincón, Puerto Rico, 2008.
Lennart Söder, Mikael Amelin, ”A review of different methodologies used
for calculation of wind power capacity credit”, Power and Energy Society
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Magnus Perninge, Mikael Amelin, Valerijs Knazkins, ”Load Modeling Using
the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process”, Proceedings IEEE PECON 2008, Johor
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Magnus Perninge, Mikael Amelin, Valerijs Knazkins, ”Comparing Variance
Reduction Techniques for Monte Carlo Simulation of Trading and Security
in a Three-Area Power System”, Proceedings IEEE PES T&D LA 2008, 2008.
Jonas Persson, Lennart Söder, ”Comparison of threes linearization
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Magnus Olsson, Lennart Söder, ”Estimating real-time balancing prices in
wind power systems”, Proceedings of 2009 Power Systems Conference &
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Robert Eriksson, Valerijs Knazkins, ”Nonlinear Coordinated Control of
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Karin Alvehag, Lennart Söder, ”A Stochastic Approach for Modeling Residential
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Mari Jakobsson Ueda, Framtagandet av representativa testnät för svenska
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Joakim Lilliesköld, Stefan Östlund, ”Designing, implementing and maintaining
a first year project course in Electrical engineering”, European
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Oskar Wallmark, Peter Kjellqvist, ”Analysis of a low-cost air-gap winding
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Staffan Norrga, Stephan Meier, Stefan Östlund, ”A Three-Phase Soft-Switched
Isolated AC/DC Converter Without Auxiliary Circuit”, IEEE transactions
on industry applications, (may) 2008.
Koen J. Meessen, Peter Thelin, Juliette Soulard, E.A. Lomonova., ”Inductance
Calculations of PMSMs with FEM Including PM Flux Change, Self- and
Cross-Saturations”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, (no. 10,) pp.
2324-2331, (oct) 2008.
Tommy Kjellqvist Stefan Östlund Staffan Norrga, ”Active Snubber Circuit
for Source Commutated Converters Utilizing the IGBT in the Linear
Region”, IEEE transactions on power electronics, vol. 23, (no. 5,) pp. 2595-
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Hailian Xie, Lennart Ängquist, Hans-Peter Nee, ”Comparison of Voltage and
Flux Modulation Schemes of StatComs Regarding Transformer Saturation
During Fault Recovery”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, (no. 4,)
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Mats Jonasson, Oskar Wallmark, ”Control of electric vehicles with autonomous
corner modules: implementation aspects and fault handling”, International
Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, vol. 3, (no. 3,)
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Alija Cosic , Chandur Sadarangani, Jan Timmerman, ”Design and manufacturing
of a linear Transverse Flux Permanent Magnet Machines”, 2008.
Alija Cosic , Chandur Sadarangani, Mats Leksell, ”3D Analyses of a Novel
Transverse Flux Machine for a Free Piston Energy Converter”, 2008.
Georgios Demetriades, Hans-Peter Nee, ”Characterization of the Dual-Active
Bridge Topology for High-Power Applications Employing a Duty-Cycle
Modulation”, Proc of IEEE PESC 2008, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2791-2798, 2008.
Georgios Demetriades, Hans-Peter Nee, ”Dynamic Modeling of the Dual-
Active Bridge Topology for High-Power Applications”, Proc of IEEE PESC
2008, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 457-464, 2008.
Florence Meier, Juliette Soulard, ”dq Theory Applied to a Permanent
Magnet Synchronous Machine with Concentrated Windings”, Proceedings
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Stefan Östlund, Anders Gustafsson, Lars Buhrkall, Martin Skoglund,
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Florence Meier, Juliette Soulard, ”Analysis of Flux Measurements on a
PMSM With Non-Overlapping Concentrated Windings”, Conference record
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Oskar Wallmark, Peter Kjellqvist, Florence Meier, ”Analysis of axial leakage
effects in high-speed slotless PM motors for industrial hand tools”, Conference
record IEEE 43rd IAS Annual Meeting, 2008.
Alexander Stening, Chandur Sadarangani, ”The effects of inter-bar currents
in cast aluminium and cast copper rotors”, ICEM - International Conference
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Mattias Skoglund, Peter Bark, Stefan Östlund, ”Dual mode locomotives -
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Reza Rajabi Moghaddam, Freddy Magnussen, Chandur Sadarangani, Heinz
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Daniel Olsén, Possible Power Modules for a Low Voltage Unit, 2008.
Du Rui, Simulations of current harmonics for different MV drives, 2008.
Mohammad Kimiabeigi, Eddy current loss in magnets and supports, 2008.
Wei Sun, High Efficiency Machine Evaluation with SPEED, 2008.
Daniel Olsén, Possible Power Modules for a high current and low voltage
unit, 2008.
Reza Rajabi Moghaddam, Synchronous Reluctance Machine (SynRM)
Design, 2008.
TECHNICAL REPORT
Samer Shisha, Analysis of Inverter-fed Losses on the Solid Rotor of Largescale
Synchronous Machines, 2008.
Nicklas Johansson, Control of dynamically assisted phase-shifting transformers,
2008.
OTHER
Florence Meier (2008), ’Design of a 10-pole 12-slot Permanent-Magnet
Synchronous Motor for Traction Application’, internal report.
Alija Cosic Chandur Sadarangani Stefan Östlund (2008), ’Design of an Electromechanical
Actuator for Active Lateral Suspension’, Gröna Tåget.
Electromagnetic Engineering
JOURNAL PAPERS
Ou H; Chen B; Fu H; SAILING HE, ”Microwave-photonic frequency doubling
utilising phase modulator and fibre Bragg grating”, ELECTRONICS LETTERS,
vol. 44 pp. 131-133, (jan) 2008.
Chen XW; He S; Choy WCH, ” Highly efficient and tunable fluorescence of
a nanofluorophore in silica/metal dual shells with plasmonic resonance”,
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 103, (no. 024301,), (dec) 2008.
Khan SN; Hu J; Xiong J, sailing he, ”Circular fractal monopole antenna
based on descartes circle theorem for uwb application”, MICROWAVE AND
OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 50 pp. 1605-1608, (jun) 2008.
Geng YL; He SaiLing, ”Spherical vector wave functions solution to scattering
of a plane wave by a spherical shell of uniaxial anisotropic left-handed
material”, MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 50 pp.
2142-2146, (aug) 2008.
He GS; Qin HY; Zheng Q; SAILING HE, ” Dynamic properties and optical
phase conjugation of two-photon pumped ultrashort blue stimulated
emission in a chromophore solution”, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 77, (no.
013824,), (jan) 2008.
Dai DX; He SAILING, ” Design of an ultrashort Si-nanowaveguide-based
multimode interference coupler of arbitrary shape”, APPLIED OPTICS, vol.
47 pp. 38-44, (jan) 2008.
Wang BW; Jin Y; He SAILING, ”Design of subwavelength corrugated metal
waveguides for slow waves at terahertz frequencies”, APPLIED OPTICS, vol.
47 pp. 3694-3700, (jul) 2008.
Flache D., V. A. Rakov, F. Heidler, W. Zischank, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”Initialstage
pulses in upward lightning: Leader/return stroke versus M-component
mode of charge transfer to ground”, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.
35 pp. L13812, (jul) 2008.
He G. S.; Yong K.-T Qin H.-Y.; Zheng Q.; Prasad P. N.; He Sailing.; Agren H.;,
”Stimulated Rayleigh–Bragg Scattering From a Two-Photon Absorbing
CdSe–CdS–ZnS Quantum-Rods System: Optical Power Limiting and
Phase-Conjugation”, IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, vol. 44 pp.
894-901, (oct) 2008.
Bibliography
Dai DX; He SaiLing, ”Proposal for diminishment of the polarization-dependency
in a Si-nanowire multimode interference (MMI) coupler by tapering
the MMI section”, IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20 pp.
599-601, (mar) 2008.
Chen JJ; Wosinska L; He SaiLing, ”High utilization of wavelengths and
simple interconnection between users in a protection scheme for passive
optical networks”, IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20 pp. 389-
391, (mar) 2008.
Fu H. Zhou K. Saffari P. Mou C. Zhang L. He Sailing. Bennion I., ”Microchanneled
Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating Formed by Femtosecond Laser-Aided
Chemical Etching for Refractive Index and Temperature Measurements”,
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20 pp. 1609-1611,
(sep) 2008.
Ning Zhu;Jun Song; Lech Wosinski, Sailing He, ”Design of a Polarization-
Insensitive Echelle Grating Demultiplexer Based on Silicon Nanophotonic
Wires”, IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20 pp. 860-862, (may)
2008.
Anders Ellgardt, ”A Scan Blindness Model for Single-Polarized Tapered-Slot
Arrays in Triangular Grids”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
vol. 56 pp. 2937 - 2942, (sep) 2008.
Cecilia Forssén, Hans Edin, ”Partial Discharges in a Cavity at Variable
Applied Frequency Part 2: Measurements and Modeling”, IEEE Transactions
on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 15, (no. 6,) pp. 1610-1616, (dec)
2008.
Cecilia Forssén, Hans Edin, ”Partial Discharges in a Cavity at Variable Applied
Frequency Part 1: Measurements”, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and
Electrical Insulation, vol. 15, (no. 6,) pp. 1601 - 1609, (dec) 2008.
Nelson Theethayi; Rajeev Thottappillil; Gerhard Diendorfer; Martin Mair;
Hannes Pichler, ”Currents in Buried Grounding Strips Connected to Communication
Tower Legs during Lightning Strikes”, IEEE Transactions on
Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 15 pp. 1153-1161, (aug) 2008.
Nelson Theethayi; Yoshihiro Baba; Farhad Rachidi, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”On
the Choice Between Transmission Line Equations and Full-Wave Maxwell’s
Equations for Transient Analysis of Buried Wires”, IEEE Transactions on
Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 50 pp. 347-357, (may) 2008.
Nelson Theethayi; Vladimir Rakov, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”Responses of
Airport Runway Lighting System to Direct Lightning Strikes: Comparisons
of TLM Predictions With Experimental Data”, IEEE Transactions On Electromagnetic
Compatibility, vol. 50 pp. 660-668, (aug) 2008.
Daniel Månsson; Rajeev Thottappillil; Tony Nilsson; Olof Lundén; Mats
Bäckström, ”Susceptibility of Civilian GPS Receivers to Electromagnetic
Radiation”, IEEE Transactions On Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 50 pp.
434-437, (apr) 2008.
Daniel Månsson; Rajeev Thottappillil, Mats Bäckström, ”Propagation of
UWB Transients in Low-Voltage Power Installation Networks”, IEEE Transactions
On Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 50 pp. 619-629, (aug) 2008.
Daniel Månsson; Rajeev Thottappillil; Mats Bäckström; Olof Lundén,
”Vulnerability of European Rail Traffic Management System to Radiated
Intentional EMI”, IEEE Transactions On Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol.
50 pp. 101-109, (feb) 2008.
David Ribbenfjärd, Göran Engdahl, ”Novel Method for Modelling of Dynamic
Hysteresis”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44 pp. 854-857, (jun)
2008.
Justinian Anatory; Nelson Theethayi; Rajeev Thottappillil; Mussa Kissaka,
Nerey Mvungi, ”Expressions for Current/Voltage Distribution in Broadband
Power-Line Communication Networks Involving Branches”, IEEE transactions
on power delivery, vol. 23 pp. 188 - 195, (jan) 2008.
Justinian Anatory; Nelson Theethayi; Rajeev Thottappillil; Mussa Kissaka,
Nerey Mvungi, ”Broadband Power-Line Communications: The Channel
Capacity Analysis”, IEEE transactions on power delivery, vol. 23 pp. 164 -
170, (jan) 2008.
Justinian Anatory; Nelson Theethayi; Rajeev Thottappillil; Mussa Kissaka,
Nerey Mvungi, ”The Influence of Load Impedance, Line Length, and
Branches on Underground Cable Power-Line Communications (PLC) Systems”,
IEEE transactions on power delivery, vol. 23 pp. 180-187, (jan) 2008.
Justinian Anatory; Nelson Theethayi; Rajeev Thottappillil; Mussa Kissaka,
Nerey Mvungi, ”An Experimental Validation for Broadband Power-Line
Communication (BPLC) Model”, IEEE transactions on power delivery, vol. 23
pp. 1380-1383, (jul) 2008.
Carl Johan Wallnerström, Lina Bertling, ”Investigation of the Robustness of
the Swedish Network Performance Assessment Model”, IEEE Transactions
on Power Systems, vol. 23, (no. 2,) pp. 773 – 780, (may) 2008, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
Tommie Lindquist Lina Bertling Roland Eriksson, ”Circuit Breaker Failure
Data and Reliability Modelling”, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution,
(nov) 2008.
J.-P. Cui; J. Yao; Xin Hu, Q.-L. Zhang, ”New Broadband Zero Phase Shifter
based on Negative Refraction Index Transmission Line”, J.of Electromagn.
Waves and Appl, vol. 22 pp. 2069-2075, (dec) 2008.
Chen XW; He Sailing; Choy WCH, ”Highly efficient and tunable fluorescence
of a nanofluorophore in silica/metal dual shells with plasmonic resonance”,
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 103, (no. 024301,), (jan) 2008.
J Hu S. N. Khan J. Xiong , Sailing. He, ”CIRCULAR AXE-SHAPED PATCH AN-
TENNA FOR COMPACT AND DUAL BAND WIRELESS APPLICATIONS”, JOUR-
NAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 22, (no.
1655-1660,), (dec) 2008.
Nag A., V. A. Rakov, W. Schulz, M. M. F. Saba, Rajeev Thottappillil, C. J. Biagi,
A. Oliveira Filho, A. Kafri, N. Theethayi, T. Gotschl, ”First versus subsequent
return-stroke current and field peaks in negative cloud-to-ground lightning
discharges”, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113 pp. D19112, (oct)
2008.
Dai DX; Yang L; He SaiLing, ”Ultrasmall thermally tunable microring
resonator with a submicrometer heater on Si nanowires”, JOURNAL OF
LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 26 pp. 704-709, (mar) 2008.
Hu Rui Dai DaoXin, He SaiLing, ”A Small Polymeric Ridge Waveguide With
a High Index Contrast”, JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 26 pp.
1964-1968, (aug) 2008.
Wang B; Shen LF; He SaiLing, ”Superlens formed by a one-dimensional
dielectric photonic crystal”, JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AME-
RICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, vol. 25 pp. 391-395, (mar) 2008.
Surajit Midya, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”An Overview of Electromagnetic Compatibility
Challenges in European Rail Traffic Management System”, Journal
of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 16C pp.
515-534, (oct) 2008.
Ding JC; Lin ZL; Ying ZN; sailing he, ”A compact ultra-wideband slot
antenna with multiple frequency bands”, MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECH-
NOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 50 pp. 1446-1446, (may) 2008.
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functionalized gold nanorods and its application to biosensing”, NA-
NOTECHNOLOGY, vol. 19, (no. 355501,), (sep) 2008.
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Zhang P; Jin Y; He SAILING, ”Cloaking an object on a dielectric half-space”,
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Shi YC; He SaiLing; Anand S, ”Ultracompact directional couplers realized in
InP by utilizing feature size dependent etching”, OPTICS LETTERS, vol. 33 pp.
1927-1929, (sep) 2008.
Fang YT; He Sailing, ”Transparent structure consisting of metamaterial
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A.Berrier Y.Shi J.Siegert S.Marcinkevicius Sailing He, S.Anand, ”Impact of
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DINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINE-
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Jörgen Ramprecht, Martin Norgren, Daniel Sjöberg, ”Scattering from a
Thin Magnetic Layer with a Periodic Lateral Magnetization: Application to
Electromagnetic Absorbers”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research, vol. 83
pp. 199-224, (jun) 2008.
Xin HU; Sailing HE, ”New Transmission Lines of Negative Refractive Index
Based on Periodically Loaded Negative-Impedance-Converted Inductors
and Capacitors”, The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, (nov) 2008.
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Nelson Theethayi, Rajeev Thottappillil, Electromagnetic Field Interaction
with Transmission Lines From Classical Theory to HF Radiation Effects, ”Surge
propagation and crosstalk in multiconductor transmission lines above
ground,” Advances in Electrical Engineering and Electromagnetics, (pp.
23-78,) WIT Press, UK, 2008.
Nelson Theethayi, Rajeev Thottappillil, Electromagnetic Field Interaction
with Transmission Lines From Classical Theory to HF Radiation Effects, ”Surge
propagation in multiconductor transmission line below ground,” Advances
in Electrical Engineering and Electromagnetics, (pp. 79-122,) WIT Press,
UK, 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Carl Johan Wallnerström, Jörgen Hasselström, Per Bengtsson, Lina Bertling,
”Review of the Risk Management at a Distribution System Operator”, ,
2008, PMAPS 2008, Puerto Rico. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
Daniel Månsson, Rajeev Thottappillil, Mats Bäckström, ”Propagation Ability
of UWB Transients through Junctions of Low-voltage Power Installation
Cable”, 19th International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility,
2008, Singapore, May 19 - 22.
Raul Montaño, Mats Bäckström, Daniel Månsson, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”On
the Response and Immunity of Critical Infrastructures Against IEMI – Current
Swedish Research Initiatives”, 19th International Zurich Symposium
on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2008, Singapore, May 19 - 22, 2008.
Surajit Midya, Dierk Bormann, Anders Larsson, Thorsten Schütte, Rajeev
Thottappillil, ”Understanding Pantograph Arcing in Electrified Railways –
Influence of Various Parameters”, 2008 IEEE EMC Symposium, 2008.
Nelson Theethayi, Rajeev Thottappillil, Gerhard Diendorfer, Martin Mair,
Hannes Pichler, ”Currents in Buried Grounding Strips Connected to Communication
Tower Legs during Lightning Strikes”, 2008 URSI General
Assembly, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 7-16.
Daniel Sjöberg, Jörgen Ramprecht, Niklas Wellander, ”Stability and causality
of effective material parameters for biased ferromagnetic materials”,
2008 URSI General Assembly, Chicago, USA, 2008.
Schulz W, Sindelar S, Kafri A, Götschl T, Theethayi N, Thottappillil R, ”The
Ratio Between First And Subsequent Lightning Return Stroke Electric Field
Peaks In Sweden”, 29th International Conference on Lightning Protection,
2008, Uppsala, June 23-26.
Mohsen Torabzadeh-Tari, Göran Endahl, ”A Time Domain Frequency Separation,
TDFS-Model Approach Including Reactive Power of a Novel Electromechanical
Actuator for MEA Applications”, ACTUATOR 2008, 2008.
Anders Ellgardt, ” Effects on scan blindnesses of an absorbing layer covering
the ground plane in a triangular grid single-polarized tapered-slot
array”, Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008
IEEE, 2008.
R. Thottappillil, N. Theethayi, T. Hågård, K. Sjöberg, U. Grape, ”Security
Assessment For Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, With Respect To
Lightning Strikes”, Cigre Symposium, 2008, Paris, August 24-29.
Hanif Tavakoli, Dierk Bormann, David Ribbenfjärd, Göran Engdahl, ”Comparison
of a simple and a detailed model of magnetic hysteresis with measurements
on electrical steel”, Electromagnetic Phenomena in Nonlinear
Circuits - EPNC 2008, 2008.
Mats Bäckström, Rajeev Thottappillil, Daniel Månsson, Raul Montano, Olof
Lundén, Tony Nilsson, ”Some Recent Work on Intentional EMI in Sweden,
European electromagnetics”, Euro Electromagnetics (EUROEM), 2008,
Lausanne, July 21-25, 2008.
Rajeev Thottappillil, Daniel Mansson, Mats Bäckström, ”Susceptibility of
Electrified Railway to Intentional Electromagnetic Interference: Research
in Sweden”, European electromagnetics (EUROEM), 2008, Lausanne, July
21-25.
Surajit Midya, Dierk Bormann, Anders Larsson, Thorsten Schütte, Rajeev
Thottappillil, ”Pantograph Arcing and their Consequences to Electromagnetic
Interference in Railway Systems”, European electromagnetics
(EUROEM), 2008, Lausanne, July 21-25.
Surajit Midya, Thorsten Schütte, Rajeev Thottappillil, ”Interaction and
Interference Between AC and DC in Railway Feeding Systems”, European
electromagnetics (EUROEM), 2008, Lausanne, July 21-25.
Nelson Theethayi, Ziya Mazloom, Rajeev Thottappillil, Per Anders Lindeberg,
Thorsten Shutte, ”Review of Research on Lightning Interaction with
the Swedish Railway Network”, European electromagnetics (EUROEM),
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Jörgen Ramprecht, Daniel Sjöberg, ”On the amount of magnetic material
necessary in broadband magnetic absorbers”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation
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Valentinas Dubickas, Hans Edin, ”Dielectric model of water trees in an XLPE
cable”, International Symposium on Electrical Insulating Materials, 2008
Patrik Hilber, Lina Bertling, ”Multiobjective Maintenance Policy for a Distribution
System an Application Study”, PMAPS 2008, 2008.
Lars Austrin, Eduardo Figuroa Karlström, Göran Engdahl, ”Evaluation of
switching losses in magnetic amplifiers as an alternative to IGBT technologies”,
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Tommie Lindquist, Lina Bertling, ”Hazard Rate Estimation for High-Voltage
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Jun Song, Electromagnetic simulation and design of etched diffraction
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Mohsen Torabzadeh-Tari, Dimensioning tools of MEA actuator systems,
2008.
Jörgen Ramprecht, Electromagnetic Waves in Media with Ferromagnetic
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Cecilia Forssén, Modelling of cavity partial discharges at variable applied
frequency, 2008.
Tommie Lindquist, On reliability and maintenance modelling of ageing
equipment in electric power systems, 2008.
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Carl Johan Wallnerström, On Risk Management of Electrical Distribution
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Zhihua Huang, Bingfeng Zhu, Semi-Passive RFID-transponder, 2008.
Peng Lin, A design approach of magnetostrictive actuators for hydroacoustic
transducers, 2008.
Alexander Witte, Broadband antenna for ionospheric sounding, 2008.
Rafed Ayou, Implementation of Hysteresis Models in COMSOL, 2008.
Tahir Awan, Studies of material parameters in magnetic materials, 2008.
Kashif Sarwar Rana, Further development and verification of a hysteresis
model, 2008.
Yaser Abedalla, FEM Modeling of Non-linear Electrical Field Grading for
Rotating Machine Windings, 2008.
Mohammad Numan Abu Dheim, Broadband Active Antenna, 2008.
Anders Kallur, Guided reconnection in order to minimize transients, 2008.
Michele Lucente, Condition Monitoring System in Wind Turbine Gearbox,
2008.
Jean-Raphaël Corvol, Renewing and Maintenance in Operating Conditions
of Instrumentation and Control, 2008.
Christophe Lallemand, Methodology For a Risk Based Asset Management,
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Göran Semart, Condition assessment of a medium voltage cable network
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Johan Setréus (2008), ’Verification of Results from the Loadflow module in
RADPOW_2007’.
Lina Bertling (2008), ’The RCAM research group - history and status’.
Tommie Lindquist (2008), ’Estimating the accuracy of thermography of
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Lina Bertling Patrik Hilber Jolanta Jensen Johan Setréus Carl Johan Wallnerström
(2008), ’RADPOW development and documentation’.
Volker Bach, Juerg Fröhlich, Lars Jonsson (2008), ’Bogolubov-Hartree-Fock
Mean Field Theory for Neutron Stars and other Systems with Attractive
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Anders Ellgardt, Martin Norgren (2008), ’A study of edge effects in triangular
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Jörgen Ramprecht, Daniel Sjöberg (2008), ’Magnetic losses in composite
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M. Rubel, G. Sergienko, A. Kreter, A. Pospieszczyk, M. Psoda, E. Wessel,
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limiter”, Fusion Engineering and Design, (dec) 2008.
Marek Rubel, “127. Structure materials in fusion reactors. Issues related to
tritium, radioactivity and radiation-induced damage”, Fusion Science and
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Bo Lehnert, “The failure of Maxwell’s equations as a basis for a photon
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J. Likonen, E. Vainonen-Ahlgren, L. Khriachtchev, J.P. Coad, Marek Rubel, T.
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layers at JET”, Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 377 pp. 486-491, (sep) 2008.
Henric Bergsåker, Sheena Menmuir, Elisabeth Rachlew, Per R Brunsell,
Lorenzo Frassinetti, James R Drake, “Metal impurity fluxes and plasmasurface
interactions in EXTRAP T2R”, Journal of Physics:Conference Series,
vol. 100 pp. 062030, (mar) 2008.
E Kaveeva, V Rozhansky, M Tendler, “Interpretation of the observed radial
electric field inversion in the TUMAN-3M tokamak during MHD activity”,
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Lorenzo Frassinetti; Alberto Alfier; Roberto Pasqualotto; Federica Bonomo,
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Petri Paananen, Specifying Configuration of Control Equipment According
to IEC 61850, 2008.
Fredrik Flodmark, A Concept of Enterprise Architecture - Establishment of
Architecture Development and Architectural Transition at IT Area R&D at
Scania CV AB, 2008.
Alfred Guirguis, A Concept of Enterprise Architecture - Establishment of an
EA Program , Requirements on EA and Architecture Maintenance at IT Area
R&D at Scania CV AB, 2008.
Kun Zhu, Impact of input uncertainties on power system state estimation
robustness, 2008.
Zi Bin Cheah, Testing & Exploring Vulnerabilities of the Applications Implementing
IEC 60870-5-104 Protocol, 2008.
Omar Faruk, Testing & Exploring Vulnerabilities of the Applications Implementing
DNP3 Protocol, 2008.
Joakim Blomberg, En metamodell för beroendehantering mellan informationssystem
på Länsförsäkringar, 2008.
Henrik Bergh, Regulatory compliance within IT, 2008.
Lars Hansson, Regulatory compliance within IT, 2008.
Jenny Wu, Tillämpning av riskhantering för spårburna fordon, 2008.
Jenny Florin, An evaluation on model based testing at Ericsson, 2008.
Maykel Youssef, Teknisk analys av mobilt stöd för drifttekniker, 2008.
Paul Artinian, Funktionell analys av mobilt stöd för drifttekniker, 2008.
Tanja Lehtola, Enterprise Architecture Analysis - Development of a Java
based Assessment tool, 2008.
Adrian Källgren, Towards a Framework for Enterprise Architecture at Vattenfall,
2008.
Hassan Khatoun-Neama, Kravspecifikation och en teknisk analys på en ny
mobil klient, 2008.
Anwar Kahlaji, Kravspecifikation och en funktionell analys på en ny mobil
klient, 2008.
Tomas Carlefalk, Säkerhet kommunikation mellan SCADA-system och
fjärrstationer, 2008.
Michael Stolz, Undersökning av förutsättningar för att bygga en ontologi
till stöd för anskaffnings och förmågeplaneringsprocesserna inom försvarsmyndigheterna,
2008.
Daniel Gecer, Method to Detect and Measure Potential Market Power
caused by Transmission Networks Congestion, 2008.
Michael Mirbaha, IT governance in financial services and manufacturing,
2008.
Anders Kotsalainen, Integration of the Zachman and SEAM frameworks,
2008.
Yasith Wickramasinghe, Architectures for Asset Repositories, 2008.
David Höök, Future control systems architectures for water optimisation in
cascaded hydro power plants, 2008.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Clelia Cangiano (2008), ’Scalability and Performance of Energy Market
Exchange Networks and Systems’.
Moustafa Chenine, Kun Zhu (2008), ’PMU-Based Application Requirements:
A Survey in the Nordic Region’.
Microsystem Technology
JOURNAL PAPERS
Carlos A. Barrios, Miguel Holgado, O. Guarneros, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito
Sánchez, Rafael Casquel, H. Sohlström, “Reconfiguration of microring
resonators by liquid adhesion”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93, pp. 203114,
2008.
Jon S. Agustsson, Unnar B. Arnalds, Arni S. Ingason, Kristinn B. Gylfason,
Kristinn Johnsen, Sveinn Olafsson, Jon T. Gudmundsson, “Growth, coalescence,
and electrical resistivity of thin Pt films grown by dc magnetron
sputtering on SiO2”, Applied Surface Science, vol. 254 pp. 7356–7360, 2008.
Susanna Rydholm, Thomas Frisk, Jacob Kowalewski, Helene Andersson, Göran
Stemme, Hjalmar Brismar, “Microfluidic devices for studies of primary
cilium mediated cellular response to dynamic flow conditions”, Biomedical
Microdevices, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 555–560, 2008.
Bibliography
Niclas Roxhed, Patrick Griss, Göran Stemme, “Membrane-sealed Hollow
Microneedles and Related Administration Schemes for Transdermal Drug
Delivery”, Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 271–279, 2008.
Stefan Braun, Joachim Oberhammer, Göran Stemme, “Row/column addressing
scheme for large electrostatic actuator MEMS switch arrays and optimization
of the operational reliability by statistical analysis”, IEEE Journal
of MicroElecroMechanical Systems (JMEMS), vol. 17 pp. 1104–1113, 2008.
Björn Samel, Niklas Sandström, Patrick Griss, Göran Stemme, “Liquid
aspiration and dispensing based on an expanding PDMS composite”, IEEE
Journal of MicroElecroMechanical Systems (JMEMS), vol. 17 pp. 1254–1262,
2008.
Niclas Roxhed, Björn Samel, Lina Nordquist, Patrick Griss, Göran Stemme,
“Painless Drug Delivery through Microneedle-based Transdermal Patches
featuring Active Infusion”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
vol. 55 pp. 1063–1071, 2008.
Feixiang Ke, Jianmin Miao, Joachim Oberhammer, “A ruthenium-based
multi-metal contact RF MEMS switch with a corrugated diaphragm”, IEEE/
ASME Journal of Electromechanical Systems, vol. 17, pp. 1447–1459, 2008.
Frank Niklaus, Adit Decharat, Christer Jansson, Göran Stemme, “Performance
Model for Uncooled Infrared Bolometer Arrays and Performance
Predictions of Bolometers Operating at Atmospheric Pressure”, Infrared
Physics & Technology, vol. 51 pp. 168–177, 2008.
Min Tang, Ai-Qun Liu, Joachim Oberhammer, “A silicon-on-glass single-pole
double-throw (SPDT) switching circuit integrated with silicon-core metalcoated
transmission line”, IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
vol. 18, 2008.
Stefan Braun, Joachim Oberhammer , Göran Stemme, “MEMS single-chip
5x5 and 20x20 double-pole single-throw switch arrays for automating
telecommunication networks”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
vol. 18, pp. 015014, 2008.
Thomas Frisk, Niklas Sandström, Lars Eng, Wouter van der Wijngaart, Per
Månsson, Göran Stemme, “An integrated narcotics sensing microsystem”,
Lab on a Chip, vol. 8 pp. 1648–1657, 2008.
Laurent Vivien, Delphine Marris-Morini, Amadeu Griol, Kristinn B. Gylfason,
Daniel Hill, Jesús Álvarez, Hans Sohlström, Juan Hurtado, David Bouville,
Eric Cassan, “Vertical multiple-slot waveguide ring resonators in silicon
nitride”, Optics Express, vol. 16 pp. 17237–17242, 2008.
Guillaume Maire, Laurent Vivien, Guillaume Sattler, Andrzej Kazmierczak,
Benito Sanchez, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Amadeu Griol, Delphine Marris-Morini,
Eric Cassan, Domenico Giannone, Hans Sohlström, Daniel Hill, “High
efficiency silicon nitride surface grating couplers”, Optics Express, vol. 16
pp. 328–333, 2008.
Carlos A. Barrios, María José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, Kristinn B.
Gylfason, Benito Sánchez, Amadeu Griol, Maquieira, Hans Sohlström,
Miguel Holgado, Rafael Casquel, “Label-free optical biosensing with slotwaveguides”,
Optics Letters, vol. 33 pp. 708–710, 2008.
Carl Fredrik Carlborg, Junichiro Shiomi, Shigeo Maruyama, “Thermal boundary
resistance between single-walled carbon nanotubes and surrounding
matrices”, Physical Review B, vol. B 78, 205406, 2008.
Min Tang, Ai-Qun Liu, and Joachim Oberhammer, “A silicon-on-glass
single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switching circuit integrated with siliconcore
metal-coated transmission line”, IOP Journal of Micromechanics and
Microengineering, vol. 18, 095024, 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Jon S. Agustsson, Unnar B. Arnalds, Arni S. Ingason, Kristinn B. Gylfason,
Kristinn Johnsen, Sveinn Olafsson, Jon T Gudmundsson, “Electrical resistivity
and morphology of ultra thin Pt films grown by dc magnetron sputtering
on SiO2”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 100, pp. 082006, 2008.
Carl Fredrik Carlborg, Kristinn B. Gylfasson, Hans Sohlström, Wouter van
der Wijngaart, Göran Stemme, Daniel Hill, Benito Sanchez, Amadeu Griol,
Guillaume Maire, Fabian Dortu, Laurent Viviena, Anne-Sophie Stragier,
Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Andrzej Kaźmierczak, Domenico Giannone,
María José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, A. Maquieira, Carlos A.
Barrios, M. Holgado, R. Casquel, “Ultrahigh sensitivity slot-waveguide biosensor
on a highly integrated chip for simultaneous diagnosis of multiple
diseases”, MTD, Gothenburg, 2008.
Christian Vieider, Frank Niklaus, Dick Eriksson, Terje Kvisterøy, Jan VanNylen,
“Low-Cost Infrared Bolometer Camera for Automotive Use”, Proceedings
Micro System Workshop MSW08, pp. 71, 2008.
Nutapong Somjit, Göran Stemme, Joachim Oberhammer, “Reconfigurable
Three-Dimensional Micromachined Dielectric-Loaded CPW Phase-Shifter”,
9th International Symposium on RF MEMS and RF Microsystems, 2008.
Andrzej Kaźmierczak, Laurent Vivien, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito Sanchez,
Amadeu Griol, Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Fabian Dortu, Hans
Sohlström, Domenico Giannone, Daniel Hill, “High quality optical microring
resonators in Si3N4/SiO2”, European Conference on Integrated Optics,
2008.
Joachim Oberhammer, Nutapong Somjit, Mikael Sterner, Farizah Saharil,
Stefan Braun, Göran Stemme, “Microwave MEMS activities at the Royal
Institute of Technology”, GigaHertz Symposium, 2008.
Daniel Hill, Benito Sanchez, Amadeu Griol, Guillaume Maire, Fabian Dortu,
Laurent Vivien, Anne-Sophie Stragier, Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan,
Andrzej Kaźmierczak, Domenico Giannone, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Hans Sohlström,
María José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, A. Maquieira, Carlos A.
Barrios, M. Holgado, R. Casquel, “Ultrahigh Sensitivity Slot-Waveguide Biosensor
on a Highly Integrated Chip for Simultaneous Diagnosis of Multiple
Diseases”, IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2008, Invited talk.
F. Zimmer, M. Friedrichs, M. Lapisa, F. Niklaus, M. Mueller, T. Bakke, H.
Schenk, H. Lakner, “The integration of mono-crystalline silicon micromirrors
on CMOS for SLM applications”, Internation Conference on Multi-
Material Micro Manufacture, pp. 35–38, 2008.
Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito Sánchez, Amadeu Griol, Carlos A. Barrios, Hans
Sohlström, Maria José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, Angel Maquieira,
Miguel Holgado, Rafael Casquel, Daniel Hill, Göran Stemme, “Optical slotwaveguide
micro-ring resonators for biosensing”, International Label-Free
Biosensing Workshop, 2008.
Susanna Rydholm, Thomas Frisk, Jacob Kowalewski, Helene Andersson,
Göran Stemme, Hjalmar Brismar, “Controlled stimuli of primary cilia in
microfabricated device”, Medicinteknikdagarna, Göteborg, 2008.
Niklas Sandström, Thomas Frisk, Göran Stemme, Wouter van der Wijngaart,
“Electrohydrodynamic Enhanced Transport and Trapping of Airborne
Particles to a Microfluidic Air-Liquid Interface”, Medicinteknikdagarna,
Göteborg, 2008.
Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito Sánchez, Amadeu Griol, Carlos A. Barrios, Hans
Sohlström, Maria José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, Angel Maquieira,
Miguel Holgado, Rafael Casquel, Daniel Hill, Göran Stemme, “Optical slotwaveguide
micro-ring resonators for biosensing, Micro System Workshop,
2008.
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2008.
Stefan Braun, Joachim Oberhammer, Göran Stemme, “MEMS crossbar
switches for telecommunication networks”, Micro System Workshop 08,
pp. 26, 2008.
Carl Fredrik Carlborg, Minh Do-Quang, Göran Stemme, Gustav Amberg,
Wouter van der Wijngaart, “Continous flow switching by pneumatic actuation
of the air lubrication layer on superhydrophobic microchannel walls”,
Microsystem Workshop 2008, Gothenburg, 2008.
Niklas Sandström, Thomas Frisk, Göran Stemme, Wouter van der Wijngaart,
“Microsystems for Airborne Sample Detection”, Mini-symposium on
Opto-Microfluidics for Biological Large Scale Integration, 2008.
Maaike M.V. Taklo, Thor Bakke, Andreas Vogl, Dag T. Wang, Frank Niklaus,
Lennart Balgård, “Vibration Sensor for Wireless Condition Monitoring”,
Proc. Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium 2008.
Carlos A. Barrios, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito Sánchez, A. Griol, H. Sohlström,
M. Holgado, R. Casquel, “Integrated slot-waveguide microresonator
for biochemical sensing”, Proceedings Europtrode IX, 2008.
Niklas Sandström, Thomas Frisk, Göran Stemme, Wouter van der Wijngaart,
“Electrohydrodynamic Enhanced Transport and Trapping of Airborne
Particles to a Microfluidic Air-Liquid Interface”, Proceedings IEEE International
Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical, pp. 595–598, 2008.
Mikael Sterner, Niclas Roxhed, Göran Stemme, Joachim Oberhammer,
“Maskless selective electrochemically assisted wet etching of metal layers
for 3D micromachined SOI RF MEMS devices”, Proceedings IEEE International
Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical, 2008.
Carl Fredrik Carlborg, Minh Do-Quang, Göran Stemme, Gustav Amberg,
Wouter van der Wijngaart, “Continous flow switching by pneumatic actuation
of the air lubrication layer on superhydrophobic microchannel walls”,
Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical, pp.
599–602, 2008.
Adit Decharat, Martin Lapisa, Fredrik Forsberg, Frank Niklaus, Göran Stemme,
“Novel room-temperature wafer-to-wafer attachment and sealing of
cavities using cold metal welding”, Proceedings Micro System Workshop
MSW08, pp. 32, 2008.
Kristinn B. Gylfason, Benito Sánchez, Amadeu Griol, Carlos A. Barrios, Hans
Sohlström, Maria José Bañuls, Victoria González-Pedro, Angel Maquieira,
Miguel Holgado, Rafael Casquel, Daniel Hill, Göran Stemme, “Robust hybridization
of nanostructured buried integrated optical waveguide systems
with on-chip fluid handling for chemical analysis”, Proceedings Micro Total
Analysis Systems (muTAS), pp. 399–401, 2008.
Niklas Sandström, Stefan Braun, Thomas Grund, Göran Stemme, Manfred
Kohl, Wouter van der Wijngaart, “Wafer-scale integration of robust
trimorph bulk SMA microactuators”, Proceedings of the 11th International
conference on new actuators (ACTUATOR), pp. 382–385, 2008.
Niklas Sandström, Stefan Braun, Thomas Grund, Göran Stemme, Manfred
Kohl, Wouter van der Wijngaart, “Wafer-scale Manufacturing of Robust Trimorph
Bulk SMA Microactuators”, Proceedings of the 4M 2008 Conference
on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture, pp. 42–45, 2008.
Minh Do-Quang, Göran Stemme, Wouter van der Wijngaart, Gustav Amberg,
“Numerical Simulation Of The Passage Of Small Liquid Droplets Through
A Thin Liquid Film”, Proceedings of The 6th International Conference
on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM 2008), 2008.
Dmitry Chicherin, Sergey Dudorov, Mikael Sterner, Joachim Oberhammer,
Antti V. Räisänen, “Micro-fabricated high-impedance surface for millimeter
wave beam steering applications”, Proceedings of The International Conference
on Infrared and Millimeter Waves/THz Electronics (IRMMW-THz),
2008.
Nutapong Somjit, Göran Stemme, Joachim Oberhammer, “Novel RF
MEMS Mechanically Tunable Dielectric Phase-Shifter”, Proceedings of The
International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves/THz Electronics
(IRMMW-THz), 2008.
Guillaume Maire, Laurent Vivien, Anne-Sophie Stragier, Andrzej
Kaźmierczak, Benito Sanchez, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Amadeu Griol, Delphine
Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Domenico Giannone, Hans Sohlström, Daniel
Hill, “Tolerance analysis of high efficiency silicon nitride surface grating
couplers”, SPIE Photonics Europe, 2008.
DOCTORAL THESIS
Thomas Frisk, MEMS interfaces for bioanalysis systems, TRITA-EE 2008:002,
2008.
MASTER THESES
Fabien Peyramale, Conception and development of a switching matrix box,
2008.
Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Investigation of novel on-chip antennas for wireless
application and single chip radar sensors, 2008.
Thomas Moh, Microfluidics for an Optical Slot-Waveguide Biosensor on an
Integrated Chip for Diagnosis of Multiple Diseases, 2008.
Stefan Berkelund, Vibrationsmätning för larmsystem, 2008.
Jaakko Niva, Highly miniaturized and CMOS compatible capacitive pressure
sensors for cardiovascular measurements, 2008.
Gaspard Pardon, A feasibility study of SMA powder composite microactuators,
2008.
OTHER
Frank Niklaus, Wouter van der Wijngaart, Göran Stemme (2008), “Generic
3-D platform technologies for IC integrated MEMS at KTH-MST”, Yole 3-D
Packaging Newsletter n°6, 2008.
Wouter van der Wijngaart, R. M. Despont, D. Bhattacharyya, P. B. Kirby, S.
Wilson, R. Jourdain, Stefan Braun, Niklas Sandström, J. Barth, T. Grund, M.
Kohl, Frank Niklaus, Martin Lapisa, F. Zimmer, “Increasing the Performance
per Cost of Microsystems by Transfer Bonding Manufacturing Techniques”,
mst news, pp. 27–28, 2008.
Signal Processing
JOURNAL PAPERS
Cristoff Martin, Alexander Geurtz, Björn Ottersten, ”Statistical Analysis and
Optimal Design for Efficient Mobile Satellite Broadcast With Diversity”, IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57 pp. 986-1000, (mar) 2008.
David Hammarwall, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, ”Acquiring Partial
CSI for Spatially Selective Transmission by Instantaneous Channel Norm
Feedback”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, pp. 1188-1204,
(mar) 2008.
David Hammarwall, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, ”Utilizing the Spatial
Information Provided by Channel Norm Feedback in SDMA Systems”, IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56 pp. 3278-3293, (jul) 2008.
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Eduard A. Jorswieck, Aydin Sezgin, Xi Zhang, ”Throughput versus Fairness:
Channel-Aware Scheduling in Multiple Antenna Downlink”, EURASIP Journal
on Wireless Communications and Networking, (jan) 2009, To Appear.
Eduard Jorswieck, Aydin Sezgin, Björn Ottersten, Arogyaswami Paulraj,
”Feedback Reduction in Uplink MIMO OFDM Systems by Chunk Optimization”,
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, (jan) 2008.
Eduard Jorswieck, Björn Ottersten, Aydin Sezgin, Arogyaswami Paulraj,
”Guaranteed Performance Region in Fading Orthogonal Space-Time Coded
Broadcast Channels”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking, (feb) 2008.
Eduard Jorswieck, Patrick Svedman, Björn Ottersten, ”Performance of
TDMA and SDMA based Opportunistic Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, vol. 7, (no. 11,), (nov) 2008.
Emil Björnson, Björn Ottersten, ”A Unified Framework for Training-Based
Estimation in Arbitrarily Correlated Rician MIMO Channels with Rician
Disturbance”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, (dec) 2008, Submitted.
Enrico Casini, Gennaro Gallinaro, Joel Grotz, ”Reduced Front-End Reception
Requirements for Satellite Broadcast using Interference Processing”, IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 54, (nov) 2008.
Gan Zheng, Kai-Kit Wong, Arogyaswami Paulraj, Björn Ottersten, ”Collaborative-Relay
Beamforming with Perfect CSI: Optimum and Distributed
Implementation”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, (sep) 2008, Accepted for
publication.
Gan Zheng, Kai-Kit Wong, Arogyaswami Paulraj, Björn Ottersten, ”Robust
Collaborative-Relay Beamforming”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
(oct) 2008, Submitted.
Henrik F Lundin, Peter Händel, Mikael Skoglund, ”Bounds on the performance
of analog-to-digital converter look-up table post-correction”, Measurement,
(mar) 2008.
Isaac Skog, Peter Händel, ”In-Car Positioning and Navigation Technologies—A
Survey”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.
10 pp. 4 - 21, (mar) 2009.
Isaac Skog, Peter Händel, ”Time synchronization errors in GPS-aided inertial
navigation systems”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
(sep) 2008, Submitted.
Jacob Trehag, Peter Händel, Maria Ögren, ”Onboard Estimation and Classification
of Railroad Curvature”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
Measurement, (dec) 2008, Submitted.
Joakim Jaldén, Björn Ottersten, ”The Diversity Order of the Semidefinite
Relaxation Detector”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54 pp.
1406-1422, (apr) 2008.
Joakim Jaldén, Luis G. Barbero, Björn Ottersten, John S. Thompson, ” The Error
Probability of the Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoder”, IEEE Transactions
on Signal Processing, (feb) 2009, To appear.
Joel Grotz, Björn Ottersten, Jens Krause, ”Signal detection and synchronization
for interference overloaded satellite broadcast reception”, IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications, (jul) 2008, Submitted, reviewed
version.
Karl Werner, Magnus Jansson, ”Estimating MIMO channel covariances from
Training Data under the Kronecker Model”, Signal Processing, vol. 89, (no.
1,) pp. 1-13, (jan) 2009.
Karl Werner, Magnus Jansson, Petre Stoica, ”On Estimation of Covariance
Matrices With Kronecker Product Structure”, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 56 pp. 478-491, (feb) 2008.
M. R. Bhavani Shankar, K. V. S. Hari, ”Systematic Construction of Linear
Transform based Full Diversity, Rate One Space-Time-Frequency Codes”,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, (mar) 2009, To Appear.
Marc Mowlér, Bilal Khalid, Per Zetterberg, Björn Ottersten, ”Assessment of
a Reconfigurable MEMS MIMO System by Indoor Measurements at 1.76
GHz”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, (sep) 2008, Submitted.
Niclas Björsell, Magnus Isaksson, Peter Händel, Daniel Rönnow, ”Kautz-
Volterra modelling of analogue-to-digital converters”, Computer Standards
and Interfaces, (may) 2008, in press.
Niclas Björsell, Peter Händel, ”Achievable ADC performance by post-correction
utilizing dynamic modeling of the integral nonlinearity”, EURASIP
Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, (no. 497187,), (may)
2008.
Niclas Björsell, Peter Händel, ”Histogram Tests for Wideband Applications”,
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 57 pp.
70-75, (jan) 2008.
Niclas Björsell, Petr Suchanek, Peter Händel, Daniel Rönnow, ”Measuring
the Volterra kernels of analog to digital converters using a stepped threetone
scan”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.
57 pp. 666-671, (apr) 2008.
Pandu R Devarakota, Bruno Mirbach, Björn Ottersten, ” Reliability Estimation
of a Statistical Classifier”, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 29 pp.
243–253, (feb) 2008.
Pandu R Devarakota, Marta Castillo-Franco, Romuald Ginhoux, Bruno Mirbach,
Serge Kater, Björn Ottersten, ”3D Skeleton based Head Detection and
Tracking using Range Images”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
(feb) 2009, To appear.
Patrick Svedman, Eduard Jorswieck, Björn Ottersten, ” Reduced Feedback
SDMA Based on Subspace Packings”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
(dec) 2008, To appear.
Peter Händel, ”Discounted least-squares gear-shift detection using accelerometer
data”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
(jun) 2008, In press.
Peter Händel, ”Parameter estimation employing a dual channel sinewave
model under a Gaussian assumption”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation
and Measurement, vol. 57, (aug) 2008.
Peter Händel, Bo Enstedt, Martin Ohlsson, ”Combating the effect of chassis
squat in vehicle performance calculations by accelerometer measurements”,
Measurment, (nov) 2008, Submitted.
Peter Händel, Yi Yao, Nina Unkuri, Isaac Skog, ”Far Infrared Camera Platform
and Experiments for Moose Early Warning Systems”, JSAE Transactions, vol.
40, (oct) 2008, to appear June 2009.
Peter von Wrycza, M. R. Bhavani Shankar, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten,
”Spectrum Allocation for Decentralized Transmission Strategies: Properties
of Nash Equilibria”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, (apr)
2009, To appear.
Petre Stoica, Magnus Jansson, ”On maximum likelihood estimation in
factor analysis--An algebraic derivation”, Signal Processing, vol. 89 pp.
1260-1262, (jun) 2009.
Svante Bergman, Björn Ottersten, ”Lattice-Based Linear Precoding for
MIMO Channels With Transmitter CSI”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
vol. 56, (no. 7,) pp. 2902-2914, (jul) 2008.
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Tùng T. Kim, Mats Bengtsson, Erik G. Larsson, Mikael Skoglund, ”Combining
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Xi Zhang, Daniel Palomar, Björn Ottersten, ”Statistically Robust Design of
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Xi Zhang, Eduard A. Jorswieck, Björn Ottersten, Arogyaswami Paulraj, ”On
the Optimality of Opportunistic Beamforming with Hard SINR Constraint”,
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Yong Zeng, Ying Fu, Mats Bengtsson, Xiaoshuang Chen, Wei Lu, Hans
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Yongming Huang, Luxi Yang, Björn Ottersten, ”A Limited Feedback Joint
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BOOKS
Joakim Jaldén, Björn Ottersten, Detection Based on Relaxation in MIMO
Systems, Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for
Wireless Networks, IGI publishing company, 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Charles Nader, Hibah Altahir, Olav Andersen, Niclas Björsell, Edith Condo,
Niclas Keskitalo, Hector de la Rosa, ”Automated Multidimensional Characterization
of Power Amplifier for Design and Production”, Proceedings IEEE
International Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conference,
2009, Accepted.
David Wisell, Joakim Jaldén, Peter Händel, ”Behavioral power amplifier
modeling using the LASSO”, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement
Technology Conference, pp. 1864-1867, 2008.
Eduard A. Jorswieck, Aydin Sezgin, Xi Zhang, ”Framework for Analysis of
Opportunistic Schedulers: Average Sum Rate vs. Average Fairness”, The 4th
workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks, 2008.
Eduard Jorswieck, Aydin Sezgin, Björn Ottersten, Arogyaswami Paulraj,
”Feedback Reduction in Uplink MIMO OFDM Systems by Chunk Optimization”,
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2008, To appear.
Efrain Zenteno, Magnus Isaksson, David Wisell, Niclas Keskitalo, Olav
Andersen, ”An Envelope Domain Measurement Test Setup to Acquire Linear
Scattering Parameters”, ARFTG Conf. Dig, pp. 54-57, 2008.
Efrain Zenteno, Olav Andersen, Magnus Isaksson, Niclas Keskitalo, David
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and Systems”, ARFTG Conf. Dig., pp. 64-68, 2008.
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Emil Björnson, Björn Ottersten, ”Post-User-Selection Quantization and
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Emil Björnson, Björn Ottersten, ”Training-Based Bayesian MIMO Channel
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Emil Björnson, Björn Ottersten, Eduard Jorswieck, ”On the Impact of Spatial
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Emil Björnson, David Hammarwall, Randa Zakhour, Mats Bengtsson, David
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Emil Björnson, Pandu Devarakota, Samer Medawar, Eduard Jorswieck,
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Marc Mowlér, Bilal Khalid, Björn Lindmark, Björn Ottersten, ”Capacity and
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Marc Mowlér, Bilal Khalid, Björn Lindmark, Björn Ottersten, ”Switched
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Per Landin, Christian Fager, Magnus Isaksson, Kristoffer Andersson, ”Power
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Per Landin, Charles Nader, Niclas Björsell, Magnus Isaksson, David Wisell,
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of Power Amplifiers Using Undersampling”, Proceedings IEEE International
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Per Landin, Magnus Isaksson, Peter Händel, ”Comparison of evaluation
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Joel Grotz, Interference Mitigation and Synchronization for Satellite Communications.
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Pandu Devarakota, Classification and Localization of Vehicle Occupants
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