This research would not have been started at all without the great response in theearly days from

Alireza Tavakoli. Without the encouraging support from my super-visors, Alireza Tavakoli and Babak

Rasolzadeh at the Royal Institute of Technology(KTH-CVAP), there would have been very little to

write.To this end, the great interest shown by my examiner Axel Ruhe at the RoyalInstitute of

Technology (KTH-NA) has been encouraging