Dr Serdar Vural
Research Assistant
Qualifications: PhD'07 in ECE, MS'05 in ECE, BS'03 in EE
Email: s.vural@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 3424
Room no: 45 BA 01
Further information
Biography
Dr. Vural received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005 and 2007, respectively, from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. His BS Degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2003 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. After completion of his PhD program, Dr. Vural worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at University of California, Riverside from June 2008 to November 2009. He joined the Centre for Communication Systems Research in University of Surrey, Guildford, UK in January 2010.
Further details can be found on my personal web page.
Research Interests
- Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Routing and Medium Access Control protocols and systems
- Wireless Mesh Networks: Multimedia transfer, hybrid architectures, and network forensics
- LTE-Advanced
- Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
Publications
Journal articles
- . (2012) 'Transmission Range Assignment for Backbone Connectivity in Clustered Wireless Networks'. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,
- . (2012) 'Realizing the Benefits of Wireless Network Coding in Multirate Settings'. IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking,
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(2012) 'Survey of Experimental Evaluation Studies for Wireless Mesh Network Deployments in Urban Areas Towards Ubiquitous Internet'. IEEE IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, PP (99), pp. 1-17.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/725238/
Abstract
Establishing wireless networks in urban areas that can provide ubiquitous Internet access to end-users is a central part of the efforts towards defining the Internet of the future. In recent years, Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) backbone infrastructures are proposed as a cost effective technology to provide city-wide Internet access. Studies that evaluate the performance of city-wide mesh network deployments via experiments provide essential information on various challenges of building them. In this survey, we particularly focus on such studies and provide brief conclusions on the problems, benefits, and future research directions of city-wide WMNs.
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(2012) 'An Energy-efficient Clustering Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks'. IEEE IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, United Kingdom: PP (99), pp. 1-11.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/123373/
Abstract
Hot spots in a wireless sensor network emerge as locations under heavy traffic load. Nodes in such areas quickly deplete energy resources, leading to disruption in network services. This problem is common for data collection scenarios in which Cluster Heads (CH) have a heavy burden of gathering and relaying information. The relay load on CHs especially intensifies as the distance to the sink decreases. To balance the traffic load and the energy consumption in the network, the CH role should be rotated among all nodes and the cluster sizes should be carefully determined at different parts of the network. This paper proposes a distributed clustering algorithm, Energy-efficient Clustering (EC), that determines suitable cluster sizes depending on the hop distance to the data sink, while achieving approximate equalization of node lifetimes and reduced energy consumption levels. We additionally propose a simple energy-efficient multihop data collection protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of EC and calculate the end-to-end energy consumption of this protocol; yet EC is suitable for any data collection protocol that focuses on energy conservation. Performance results demonstrate that EC extends network lifetime and achieves energy equalization more effectively than two well-known clustering algorithms, HEED and UCR.
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(2010) 'SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas'. IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, 9 (8), pp. 1072-1088.doi: 10.1109/TMC.2010.61
Conference papers
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'Cooperative Task Assignment for Distributed Deployment of Applications in WSNs'. Budapest, Hungary: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)
[ Status: Accepted ] - . (2011) 'A distributed energy-efficient re-clustering solution for wireless sensor networks'. GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference,
