Publications of Markku Renfors
Below my journal publications (as of May 2011) are listed. More details and references to my 300+ conference papers can be searched from the TUT Library's database.
  1. M. Renfors and Y. Neuvo, "The maximum sampling rate of digital filters under hardware speed constraints," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-28, pp. 196-202, March 1981.
  2. M. Renfors and T. Saramäki, "Recursive Nth-band digital filters - Part I: Design and properties," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-34, pp. 24-39, Jan. 1987.
  3. M. Renfors and T. Saramäki, "Recursive Nth-band digital filters - Part II: Design of multistage decimators and interpolators," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-34, pp. 40-51, Jan. 1987.
  4. P. A. Regalia, S. K. Mitra, P. P. Vaidyanathan, M. K. Renfors, and Y. Neuvo, "Tree-structured complementary filter banks using all-pass sections," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst., vol. CAS-34, pp. 1470-1484, Dec. 1987.
  5. M. Renfors and E. Zigouris, "Signal processor implementation of digital allpass filters," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-36, pp. 714-729, May 1988.
  6. M. Renfors, S. K. Mitra, P. A. Regalia, and Y. Neuvo, "Generalized doubly complementary IIR digital filters," Signal Processing, vol. 29, pp. 173-181, Nov. 1992.
  7. J. Rinne M. Renfors, “Performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing system in terrestrial TV channels - A Statistical Analysis,” IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 41, pp. 986-990, Nov. 1995.
  8. J. Rinne, M. Renfors, “Pilot spacing in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems on Practical Channels,” IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 42, pp. 959-962, Nov. 1996.
  9. O. Vainio, M. Renfors, T. Saramäki, “Recursive Implementation of FIR Differentiators with Optimum Noise Attenuation,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 46, pp. 1202-1207, Oct. 1997.
  10. R. Hamila, J. Astola, F. Alaya Cheikh, M. Gabbouj, M. Renfors, “Teager Energy and the Ambiguity Function,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 260-262, Jan. 1999.
  11. J. Yli-Kaakinen, Ming Hu, R. Uusikartano, T. Kupiainen, M. Renfors, "Multirate digital filter design for a PAL TV modulator," IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, vol. 45, pp. 970-974, Aug. 1999.
  12. K. Väisänen and M. Renfors, "Efficient Digital Filters for Pulse Shaping and Jitter-Free Frequency Error Detection and Timing Recovery", Signal Processing, vol. 81/4, pp 829-844, April 2001.
  13. A. Hazmi, J. Rinne, M. Renfors, “Transmission of DVB-T signal over cable TV network and phase noise requirements,” IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E84-A, pp. 966-970, April 2001.
  14. M. Valkama, M. Renfors, V. Koivunen, ”Advanced Methods for I/Q Imbalance Compensation in Communication Receivers", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 49, pp. 2335-2344, Oct. 2001.
  15. M. Valkama, J. Pirskanen, and M. Renfors, “Signal processing challenges for applying software radio principles in future wireless terminals: An overview,” Int. J. Commun. Syst., vol. 15, pp. 741-769, Oct. 2002.
  16. R. Hamila, J. Vesma, and M. Renfors, ”Polynomial-Based Maximum Likelihood Technique for Synchronization in Digital Receivers,”  IEEE Trans Circuits Syst. II, vol. 49, pp. 567-576, Aug. 2002.
  17. R. Hamila, E.S. Lohan, M. Renfors, “Subchip Multipath Delay Estimation for Downlink WCDMA System Based on Teager-Kaiser Operator,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1-3, Jan. 2003.
  18. J. Rinne, A. Hazmi, M. Renfors, ”Impulse Burst Position Detection and Channel Estimation Schemes for OFDM Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 49,  pp. 539-545, Aug. 2003.
  19. A. Lakhzouri, E.S. Lohan, R.Hamila, M. Renfors, “Extended Kalman Filter Channel Estimation for Line-of-Sight Detection in WCDMA Mobile Positioning,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 13, pp. 1268-1278,   Dec. 2003.
  20. S. Lohan and M. Renfors, “Performance Analysis of the Rake Receiver in the Presence of Multipath Delay Estimation Errors and Rician Fading Channels,” European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol. 14, pp. 435-447, Dec. 2003.
  21. M. Valkama, M. Renfors, “A Novel Image Reject Architecture for Quadrature Radio Receivers,” IEEE Trans Circuits Syst. II, vol. 51, pp. 61-68, Feb. 2004.
  22. D. Babic, A. Shahed Hagh Ghadam, M. Renfors, “Polynomial-based filters with odd number of polynomial-segments for interpolation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, pp. 171-174, Feb. 2004.
  23. T. Hidalgo Stitz, M. Renfors, "Filter-Bank-Based Narrowband Interference Detection and Suppression in Spread Spectrum Systems, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, pp. 1163-1176, Aug. 2004.
  24. E.S. Lohan, A. Lakhzouri, M. Renfors, “Statistical properties of urban WCDMA channel for mobile positioning applications,” International Journal on Wireless & Optical Communications, vol. 2, pp. 145-161, Dec. 2004.
  25. H. Xing, M. Renfors, M. “The performance analysis of a multi-carrier CDMA system in mobile environment,” European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol. 16, pp. 173-187, Jan. 2005.
  26. E.S. Lohan, Ridha Hamila, A. Lakhzouri, and M. Renfors, “Highly Efficient Techniques for Mitigating the Effects of Multipath Propagation in DS-CDMA Delay Estimation,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 4, pp. 149-162, Jan. 2005.
  27. R. Hamila, A. Lakhzouri, E. S. Lohan, and M. Renfors, “A Highly Efficient Generalized Teager-Kaiser-Based Technique for LOS Estimation in WCDMA Mobile Positioning”, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 698-708, Apr 2005.
  28. Djordje Babic, Markku Renfors, “Decimation by non-integer factor in multistandard radio receivers,” Signal Processing, vol. 85, no. 6, pp. 1211-1224, June 2005.
  29. D. Babic, M. Renfors, “Power efficient structure for conversion between arbitrary sampling rates,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, pp. 1-4, Jan. 2005.
  30. M. Valkama, M. Renfors, V. Koivunen, ”Blind I/Q Signal Separation Based Solutions for Receiver Signal Processing", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 2708-2718, Sept. 2005.
  31. M. Valkama, M. Renfors, V. Koivunen, ”Blind Signal Estimation in Conjugate Signal Models with Application to I/Q Imbalance Compensation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, pp. 733-736, Nov. 2005.
  32. E.S. Lohan, A. Lakhzouri, M. Renfors, ”Complex double-binary-offset-carrier modulation for a unitary characterisation of Galileo and GPS signals,” IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar Navigation, vol. 153, pp. 403-408, Oct. 2006.
  33. M. Valkama, A. Shahed Hagh Ghadam, L. Anttila, M. Renfors,”Advanced digital signal processing techniques for compensation of nonlinear distortion in wideband multicarrier radio receivers,” IEEE Trans.  Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, pp. 2356-2366, June 2006.
  34. A. Viholainen, J. Alhava, M. Renfors, ”Efficient implementation of 2x oversampled exponentially modulated filter banks,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 53, pp. 1138-1142, Oct. 2006.
  35. E. S. Lohan, A. Lakhzouri, and M. Renfors, “Feedforward delay estimators in adverse multipath propagation for Galileo and modernized GPS signals,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal processing, Article ID 50971, 19 pages, vol. 2006.
  36. E. S. Lohan, A. Lakhzouri, and M. Renfors, “Binary-Offset-Carrier modulation techniques with applications in satellite navigation systems,” Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 7, pp. 767-779, no. 6, 2007.
  37. A. Viholainen, A., Alhava, M. Renfors, ”Efficient implementation of complex modulated filter banks using cosine and sine modulated filter banks,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 58564, 10 pages, 2006. doi:10.1155/ASP/2006/58564
  38. T. Ihalainen, T. Hidalgo Stitz, M. Rinne, and M. Renfors, “Channel equalization in filter bank based multicarrier modulation for wireless communications,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 49389, 18 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/49389
  39. Y. Yang, T. Ihalainen, M. Rinne, and M. Renfors, “Frequency-domain equalization in single-carrier transmission: filter bank approach,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 10438, 16 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/10438.
  40. A. Al-Dweik, R. Hamila, and M. Renfors, ”Blind estimation of large carrier frequency offset in wireless OFDM systems,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, pp. 965-968, Feb. 2007.
  41. A.  Burian, E.-S. Lohan, and M. Renfors, "Efficient Delay Tracking Methods with Sidelobes Cancellation for BOC-Modulated Signals", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 72626, 20 pages, 2007.
  42. P. Rykaczewski, M. Valkama, M. Renfors, and V. Koivunen, “On the connection of I/Q imbalance and channel equalization in direct-conversion  transceivers,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 57, pp. 1630-1636, May 2008.
  43. L. Anttila, M. Valkama, and M. Renfors, “Circularity-based I/Q imbalance compensation in wideband direct-conversion receivers,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 57, pp. 2099-2113, July 2008.
  44. Y. Zou, M. Valkama, and M. Renfors, “Digital compensation of I/Q imbalance effects in space-time coded  transmit diversity systems,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 56, pp. 2496-2508, June 2008.
  45. Y. Zou, M. Valkama, and M. Renfors, “Analysis and compensation of transmitter and receiver I/Q imbalances in space-time coded multiantenna OFDM systems,” EURSIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2008, Article ID 391025, 16 p., 2008.
  46. M. Z. H. Bhuiyan, E.-S. Lohan and M. Renfors,  "Code Tracking Algorithms for Mitigating Multipath Effects in Fading Channels for Satellite-based Positioning", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 863629, 17 p., 2008.
  47. L. Anttila, M. Valkama, and M. Renfors, “Frequency-Selective I/Q Mismatch Calibration of Wideband Direct-Conversion Transmitters”, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, vol. 55, pp. 359-363, April 2008.
  48. A.  Burian, E.S. Lohan, and M. Renfors, "Low-complexity unambiguous acquisition methods for BOC-modulated CDMA signals", International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 26, pp. 503-522, 2008.
  49. A. Viholainen, T. Ihalainen, M. Rinne, and M. Renfors "Localized Mode DFT-S-OFDMA Implementation Using Frequency and Time Domain Interpolation," accepted for publication in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2009, Article ID 750534, 9 pages
  50. T. Ihalainen, A. Viholainen, T. Hidalgo Stitz, M. Renfors, ”Generation of Filter Bank-Based Multicarrier Waveform Using Partial Synthesis and Time Domain Interpolation,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, vol. 57, pp. 1767-1778, July 2010
  51. T. Hidalgo Stitz, T. Ihalainen, A. Viholainen, M. Renfors, "Pilot-Based Synchronization and Equalization in Filter Bank Multicarrier Communications," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 741429, 18 pages
  52. T. Ihalainen, A. Ikhlef, J. Louveaux, and M. Renfors, “Channel equalization for multi-antenna FBMC/OQAM receivers,” Accepted with minor revisions for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Jan. 2011.