Research Excellence
The Signal Processing Lab is a world-leading research group on wireless communications, statistical signal processing, measurements, and navigation systems. The group has an outstanding track-record of publications on both basic and applied research with industry collaborations.
Basic research in this unit was assessed as world-leading across the majority of the unit (…) The single strongest aspect of the unit is its world leading research in communication theory and wireless communications.
Research Assessment
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, KTH’s research was evaluated by 80 international experts. The different research areas in the Signal Processing lab were all praised for their excellent quality and impact on the academic and industrial world. A few of the comments were:
- “The work in multi-antenna systems for suppressing interference in wireless communications is world leading (the widely used Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology was developed and patented here).”
- “The development of a unique-for-academia wireless multi-antenna, multi-node test-bed and associated rapid prototyping capability is outstanding and a critically valuable resource.”
- Measurement techniques ”is a very important area to industry, which has remained unexplored from an academic research viewpoint. The research combines, creatively, techniques from signal processing and microwave engineering.”
The full assessment report is available online
Major Research Grants
Prof. Björn Ottersten is a first recipient of an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council – “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.
Prof. Peter Händel received a strategic research grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) – “Future positioning and navigation.” The project was awarded 2MSEK per year over the period 2010-2013.
The ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Autonomic Complex Communication Networks, Signals and Systems, with Prof. Björn Ottersten as principal investigator was awarded 100MSEK over the period 2006-2016.
The lab has participated in many major European research collaborations in the communication area, including WINNER I/II and WINNER+, COOPCOM, ACE, NEWCOM, and SATURN.
The lab has received research funding from wireless industry since 1991.
Complete list of ongoing and completed research projects
Key Publications
The research at the Signal Processing lab as resulted in many awards and publications that have attracted large numbers of citations. A selection of key publications is given below, and all publications are available in our database.
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| Emil Björnson, Mats Bengtsson, Gan Zheng, Björn Ottersten, “Computational Framework for Optimal Robust Beamforming in Coordinated Multicell Systems,” International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), 2011. Best Student Paper Award. |
| Marcus Björk, Erik Gudmundson, Joëlle Barral, Petre Stoica, “Signal Processing Algorithms for Removing Banding Artifacts in MRI,” European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2011. Best Student Paper Award. |
| Emil Björnson, Randa Zakhour, David Gesbert, Björn Ottersten, “Cooperative Multicell Precoding: Rate Region Characterization and Distributed Strategies with Instantaneous and Statistical CSI,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 4298-4310, August 2010. Highly Cited Paper, 44 Citations. |
| Emil Björnson, Björn Ottersten, “On the Principles of Multicell Precoding with Centralized and Distributed Cooperation,” International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2009. Best Paper Award. |
| Gan Zheng, Kai-Kit Wong, Arogyaswami Paulraj, Björn Ottersten, “Robust and Distributed Beamforming,” International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2009. Best Paper Award. |
| Joakim Jaldén, Luis G. Barbero, Björn Ottersten, John S. Thompson, “Full Diversity Detection in MIMO Systems with a Fixed-Complexity Sphere Decoder,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007. Best Student Paper Award. |
| Sathyaveer Prasad, Prasadh Ramachandran, Claes Beckman and Andres Alayon Glazunov, “Evaluation of the Telia scattered field measurement method for estimation of in-network performance of mobile terminal antennas,” Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Annual Meeting and Symposium (AMTA), 2007. Best Student Paper Award. |
| Magnus Isaksson, David Wisell, Daniel Rönnow, “A comparative analysis of behavioral models for RF power amplifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, pp. 348-359, 2006. Highly Cited Paper, 142 Citations. |
| Björn Lindmark, Laura Garcia-Garcia, Niklas Jaldén, Charlie Orlenius, “Evaluation of MIMO arrays using antenna patterns, reverberation chamber, and channel measurements,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2006. Best Paper Award. |
| Joakim Jaldén, Björn Ottersten, “On the Complexity of Sphere Decoding in Digital Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, pp. 1474-1484, 2005. IEEE Signal Processing 2006 Young Author Best Paper Award. 345 citations. |
| Kai Yu, Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, Darren McNamara, Peter Karlsson, Mark Beach, “Modeling of wide-band MIMO radio channels based on NLoS indoor measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53, pp. 655-665, 2004. Highly Cited Paper, 150 Citations. |
| Eduard Jorswieck, Holger Boche, “Optimal transmission strategies and impact of correlation in multiantenna systems with different types of channel state information,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, pp. 3440-3453, 2004. IEEE Signal Processing 2006 Best Paper Award. 81 citations. |
| Cristoff Martin, Björn Ottersten, “Asymptotic eigenvalue distributions and capacity for MIMO channels under correlated fading,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, pp. 1350-1359, 2004. Highly Cited Paper, 76 Citations. |
| Henrik Lundin, Mikael Skoglund and Peter Händel, “Optimizing dynamic post-correction of AD converters,” Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC), 2003. ADC Forum Best Paper Award - Honorary Mention. |
| George Jöngren, Mikael Skoglund, Björn Ottersten, “Combining beamforming and orthogonal space-time block coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 48, pp. 611-627, 2002. Highly Cited Paper, 440 Citations. |
| George Jöngren, Mikael Skoglund, Björn Ottersten, “Utilizing partial channel information in the design of space-time block codes,” International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2002. Excellent Paper Award. |
| Mats Bengtsson, Björn Ottersten, “Optimal and suboptimal transmit beamforming,” Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications, 2001. Highly Cited Book Chapter, 298 Citations. |
| David Astély, A. Lee Swindlehurst, Björn Ottersten, “Spatial Signature Estimation for Uniform Linear Arrays with Unknown Receiver Gains and Phases,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 2128–2138, 1999. IEEE Signal Processing 2001 Young Author Best Paper Award. |
| Petr Tichavský, Peter Händel “Multicomponent polynomial phase signal analysis using a tracking algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 1390-1395, 1999. UTIA 2000 Best Paper Award by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. |
| Magnus Jansson, Bo Wahlberg, “On consistency of subspace methods for system identification,” Automatica, vol. 34, pp. 1507-1519, 1998. Highly Cited Paper, 93 Citations. |
| David Astély, Björn Ottersten, “MLSE and Spatio-Temporal Interference Rejection Combining with Antenna Arrays,” Proceedings European Signal Processing Conference (EUSPICO), pp. 1341-1344, 1998. Best Young Author Paper Award. |
| Tõnu Trump, Björn Ottersten, “Estimation of Nominal Direction of Arrival and Angular Spread Using an Array of Sensors,” Signal Processing, vol. 50, pp. 57-69, 1996. Highly Cited Paper, 236 Citations. |
| Erik G. Ström, Stefan Parkvall, Scott L. Miller, Björn Ottersten, “Propagation Delay Estimation in Asynchronous Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple Access Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 44, pp. 84-93, 1996. Highly Cited Paper, 291 Citations. |
| Per Zetterberg, Björn Ottersten, “The spectrum efficiency of a base-station antenna array system for spatially selective transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 44, pp. 651-660, 1995. Highly Cited Paper, 154 Citations. |
| Björn Ottersten, Mats Viberg, Petre Stoica, Arye Nehorai, “Exact and Large Sample ML Techniques for Parameter Estimation and Detection in Array Processing,” Radar Array Processing, pp. 99-151, Springer-Verlag, 1993. Highly Cited Paper, 207 Citations. |
| Mats Viberg and Björn Ottersten, “Sensor Array Processing Based on Subspace Fitting,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, pp. 1110-1121, 1991. IEEE Signal Processing 1993 Young Author Best Paper Award. 446 Citations. |
The citation numbers were collected at Google Scholar on 24 January 2012.
Other Awards
Prof. Björn Ottersten received the 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award "for contributions in array signal processing and wireless communications". Prof. Ottersten received the Meritorious Service Award given by EURASIP in 2010 "for his leadership and activities as Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal" and was elected EURASIP Fellow in 2008 “for contributions to the field of signal processing”. Prof. Ottersten was elected IEEE Fellow in 2004 “for contributions to antenna signal processing and wireless communications”.
Dr. Joakim Jaldén received an SSF Ingvar Carlsson Award in 2009. The award "identify and support young, well-qualified postdocs who intend to start independent, lasting and creative research careers on their return to Sweden."
Golden Moose Award 2008 from Älgskadefondföreningen. Received by Prof Peter Händel 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.
