i would a confirm of this: with polyphase structure is possible only design a filter bank with a INTEGER oversampling ratio? For non-integer i've seen the weighted overlap-add metod, is right?
thanks S.
If you have a 1D uniform $M$-channel multirate filter bank (FB), and $N$ is the decimation ($M \ge N$), rational oversampling ratios ($M/N$) are indeed possible (see Fig. 2), or from Figure 1 in Optimization of Synthesis Oversampled Complex Filter Banks, J. Gautier et al., IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 2009 (doi), which provides optimized synthesis FB with any ratio (like $7/4$).
More precisely: for an analysis filter bank, you can choose any decimation you want. But you may loose information, and the invertibility of the analysis/synthesis system. In a lot of practical applications (for instance in speech processing), integer oversampling ratios are quite common, by choosing $N = M/k$, for instance $k=M/2$ or $k=M/4$. Such choices make the computations and some calculations much simpler: for instance, an inverse synthesis filter bank may take a closed form, related to the analysis window for DFT FBs.
However with redundancy, there are an infinity of inverses, and polyphase formulations help finding synthesis FBs.
A set of useful books (to me):