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Reino Virrankoski
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Welcome to my website. I'm currently working as a Lecturer of Telecommunications in the University of Vaasa, Finland.

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information


University of Vaasa, Department of Computer Science, Communications and Systems Engineering Group
Phone: +358-44-024-4384
Fax: +358-6-324-8467
Email: firstname.lastname(ät)uwasa.fi
Mail address: P.O. Box 700, FI-65101 Vaasa, Finland
Visiting address: Yliopistonranta 10, Fabriikki, Room F391

Information about International Master's Programme in Telecommunication Engineering in the University of Vaasa.

Student Reception / Spring 2010

Mondays 12-13. On other times by appointment (schedule over e-mail).

Research Interests

  • Communication and control in telecommunication systems and in wireless sensor networks
  • Localization and controlled mobility
  • Wireless automation
  • Wireless networks in defence and security

Current Projects

Generic Sensor System Architecture for Wireless Automation (GENSEN)
Wireless Sensor Systems in Indoor Situation Modeling (WISM)

Teaching on 2009-2010

Spring 2010:

TLTE2020 Advanced Course in Signals and Systems
TLTE3110 Wireless Networks
TLTE1040 Tietoliikenneverkot ja -järjestelmät (in Finnish)
AUTO2070 Säätötekniikan jatkokurssi (in Finnish)

Autumn 2009:


TLTE2030 Telecommunication Architectures
TLTE3120 Computer Simulation in Communication and Systems
AUTO2060 Säätötekniikka (in Finnish)


See TEG Website for a complete list of our ongoing courses.

Recent Projects

Develompent of Datafusion and Diagnostics Methods in Weather Station Networks (DaDa)
Very Distributed Sensor and Actuator Networks (ERHE)

Publications

R. Duan, M. Elmusrati, R. Jäntti, and R. Virrankoski, Power Control for Time-Varying Cognitive Radio Networks, to appear in the 17th International Conference on Telecommunications,  (ICT 2010), April 4-7, 2010, Doha, Qatar.

R. Virrankoski and S. Keskinen, GENSEN: A Novel Combination of Product, Application and Technology Platform Development in the Context of Wireless Automation, in the proceedings of 14th International Conference on Productivity & Quality Research (ICPQR 2009), October 19-23, 2009, Alexandria, Egypt.

T. Ahonen, R. Virrankoski and M. Elmusrati, Greenhouse Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Network, in the proceedings of 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, October 12-15, 2008, Beijing, China.

M. Bocca, R. Virrankoski and H. N. Koivo, Text and Language Independent Speaker Indentification by Using Short-Time  Low Quality Signals, Workshop on Wireless Communication and Applications (WoWCA 2008), April 2, 2008, Vaasa, Finland.

M. Bocca, C. Galperti, R. Virrankoski and H. N. Koivo, Estimating the Number of Persons in an Unknown Indoor Environment by Applying Wireless Acoustic Sensors and Blind Signal Separation, in the proceedings of the Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications International Conference (MCWC 2006), September 17-20, 2006, Amman, Jordan.

P. Drineas, A. Javed, M. Magdon-Ismail, G. Pandurangan, R. Virrankoski and A. Savvides, Distance Matrix Reconstruction from Incomplete Distance Information for Sensor Network Localization, in the proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON'06) , September 25-28, 2006, Reston, VA, USA.

Virrankoski, R., Savvides, A., TASC: Topology Adaptive Spatial Clustering for Sensor Networks, Yale University, ENALAB, in the proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'05), November 7-10, 2005, Washington DC, USA. (presentation slides)

Jalkanen, H., Virrankoski, R., Oksanen, T., A simulator of oxygen converter process (BOF), Pyrometallurgy 2002, Cape Town, South Africa, March 11-13, 2002.


Technical Reports

P. Drineas, M. Magdon-Ismail, G. Pandurangan, R. Virrankoski and A. Savvides, Distance Matrix Reconstruction from Incomplete Distance Information for Sensor Network Localization, Yale University, ENALAB Technical Report 110402, 2004.

Savvides, A., Srivastava, M. B., Virrankoski, R., Geometry Aware Ad-Hoc Localization, Technical Report, University of California, Los Angeles, Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory, 2003.

Postgraduate Seminar Reports

Virrankoski, R., Estimation of Gene Expression, postgraduate seminar report, Fall 2005.

Virrankoski, R., Complex Systems - a New World View, one chapter in Heikki Hyötyniemi (ed.): Complex Systems - Science on the Edge of Chaos, collected papers on the Spring 2003 postgraduate seminar, Helsinki University of Technology, Control Engineering Laboratory, Report 145, October 2004.

Virrankoski, R., Localization in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks, postgraduate seminar report, Spring 2003.

In Finnish

Virrankoski, R., Oksanen, T., Jalkanen, H., CONSIM 4.0 - Happikonvertteriprosessin simulointiohjelma, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Materials Processing and Powder Metallurgy, TKK-MK-121, Espoo 2001.

Virrankoski, R., Oksanen, T., Jalkanen, H., CONSIM - happikonvertteriprosessin simulointiohjelma, Automaatioväylä 4/2001.

Virrankoski, R., Matematiikan kertauskurssi Iso-M elokuussa 1999, report C 15, Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Mathematics, 2000.

Virrankoski, R., Symbolista merkistöä verkossa sekä WWW-pohjaisia opetusjärjestelmiä, Solmu 2 / 1999-2000.

Virrankoski, R., Laskentaohjelmistojen hyödyntäminen digitaalisen opetusmateriaalin laatimisessa - optimointia Maple-ohjelmalla, Master's Thesis, University of Helsinki, 1999.


Updated 01/2010