Özgür Gürbüz
Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Orhanli - Tuzla, 34956
Istanbul, TURKEY
Tel:+90 (216) 483-9609
Fax: +90 (216) 483-9555
Email: ogurbuz AT sabanciuniv DOT edu
Dr. Özgür Gürbüz received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. In her Ph.D. thesis, she worked on power control schemes for multimedia support in 3G W-CDMA wireless networks. From 2000 until 2002 she worked as a researcher and systems/algorithms engineer for Cisco Systems, in Wireless Access and Wireless Networking Business Units, where she participated in the design of ARQ protocols for fixed wireless systems, performance optimization and voice support in 802.11 wireless LANs. As of September 2002, Dr. Gurbuz joined the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University. Her research interests remain in the field of wireless communications and networks, in particular, media access control, scheduling and radio resource management, MIMO systems and smart antennas, cross layer design and wireless sensor network applications. She is a member of IEEE and IEEE Communications Society.
Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks, funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey), Career Award, July 2006 - September 2010.
NetADDeD: New Technologies to Avoid Digital Division in e-Divided areas, funded by European Commission 6th Framework Program, April 2007 - April 2009.
Wireless Mesh Networking, funded by AirTies Wireless Networks and TTGV, September 2005 - August 2007. Finalist for the Grand Prize in 7th Technology Conference organized by TUBITAK, TTGV, TUSIAD of Turkey. Press release (in Turkish)
MAC for Very High Data Rate (802.11n) Wireless LANs, funded by Cisco Systems University Research Program, September 2004 - August 2006.
Broadband Service Manager, funded by Gantek Teknoloji and TTGV, February 2004 - July 2005.
Wireless LANs with Smart Antennas, funded by Cisco Systems University Research Program, February 2003 - February 2005.
M. Sarper Göktürk, “Cooperative Diversity Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks,” in progress.
Yunus Sarıkaya, “On-line Residual Capacity Estimation for Resource Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks,” MS Thesis, August 2008.
Fırat Birlik, “Design and Implementation of High Quality H.264 Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks,” MS Thesis, February 2008. (Currently: Wireless Systems Fellow Engineer at AirTies Wireless Networks, Istanbul).
Ertuğrul Necdet Ciftçioğlu, “Opportunistic Scheduling in Next Generation MIMO WLANs,” MS Thesis, August 2006. (Currently: ECE Ph.D student at Penn State University, USA)
Hülya Seferoğlu, “Multimedia Streaming over Wireless Channels,” MS Thesis, August 2005. (Currently: ECE Ph.D student at University of California at Irvine, USA).
Erdem Ulukan, “Wireless LANs with Smart Antennas,” MS Thesis, January 2005. (Currently: Wireless Systems R&D Engineer at AirTies Wireless Networks, Istanbul).
Y. Sarıkaya, I. C. Atalay, O. Gurbuz, O. Ercetin, “Estimating The Available Channel Capacity of Multi-Hop IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks,” under revision.
B. Ozdemir, O. Gurbuz, “Tomlinson-Harashima Precoded MIMO in Wireless Networks: to THP or not to THP?,” under revision.
B. Yuceoglu, S.I. Birbil, J. A. S. Gromicho, Ö. Gürbüz, “Dispersion with Connectivity in Location Problems,”under revision.
F. Birlik, O. Gurbuz, O. Ercetin, “IPTV Home Networking via 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks: An Implementation Experience,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 55 (3), 1192-1199, August 2009, DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2009.5277975.
E. N. Ciftcioglu, O. Gurbuz, “Scheduling for Next Generation WLANs: Filling the Gap between Offered and Observed Data Rates,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Special Issue: Wireless Mesh and Other Emerging Wireless Technologies, June 2009, DOI: 10.1002/wcm.808.
M. Keskinoz, O. Gurbuz, E. Masazade, “Cross-Layer Enhanced Time Scheduling for Multi-Band OFDM UWB Networks,” Wireless Networks (WINET), March 2009, DOI: 10.1007/s11276-009-0173-2.
S. Gokturk, O. Ercetin, O. Gurbuz, “Throughput Analysis of ALOHA with Cooperative Diversity,” IEEE Communication Letters, 2 (6), 468-470, June 2008.
O. Gurbuz, “Design and Performance Analysis of an ARQ Scheme for Broadband Wireless Access,” IEICE Transactions on Communications, E91-B (6), 1989-1998, June 2008.
E. Ulukan, O. Gurbuz, “Angular MAC: A Framework for Directional Antennas in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Wireless Networks (WINET), 14 (2), 259-275, April 2008.
H. Seferoglu, O. Gurbuz, O. Ercetin, Y. Altunbasak, “Rate-Distortion Based Real-Time Wireless Video Streaming,” Signal Processing: Image Communications, 22(6), 529–542, July 2007.
O. Ercetin, O. Gurbuz, K. Bulbul, A. Aksu, and E. N. Ciftcioglu, “A Practical Routing and MAC Framework for Maximum Lifetime Sensor Telemetry,’’ IEICE Transactions on Communications, E90-B (11), 3146-3157, November 2007.
O. Ercetin, O. Gurbuz, K. Bulbul, A. Aksu, “Joint Sensor Selection and Data Routing in Sensor Networks,” Lecture Notes on Computer Science 3462, R. Boutaba et al. (Eds.), pp. 828–839, May 2005.
O. Gurbuz, H. Owen, “Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS): A Multimedia QoS Framework for W-CDMA,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 4, issue 5, pp. 529-46, August 2004.
O.Gurbuz, H.Owen, “Power Control Based QoS Provisioning for Multimedia in W-CDMA,” ACM Wireless Networks (WINET), vol.8, no.1, pp. 37-47, January 2002.
O.Gurbuz, H.Owen, “Dynamic Resource Scheduling Schemes for W-CDMA systems,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.38, issue.10, pp. 80-84, October 2000.
M. S. Göktürk, Ö. Gürbüz, “Cooperative MAC Protocol with Distributed Relay Actuation,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2009 (WCNC’09), Budapest, April 2009.
S. Gokturk, O. Ercetin, O. Gurbuz, “Energy Distribution Control in Wireless Sensor Networks Through Range Optimization,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 2008, Cannes, France, September 2008.
I. C. Atalay, Y. Sarikaya, O. Gurbuz, O. Ercetin, “Accurate Non-Intrusive Residual Bandwidth Estimation in WMNs,” IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh) 2008, in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2008, San Francisco, USA, June 2008.
M. S. Gokturk, O. Gurbuz, “Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks: Design and Performance Analysis of a MAC Protocol,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008, Beijing, China, May 2008.
F. Birlik, O. Ercetin, O. Gurbuz, “Prioritized Video Streaming in Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM’07), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
E. N. Ciftcioglu, O. Gurbuz, “Access Scheduling Based on Time Water-Filling for Next Generation Wireless LANs,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007.
E. N. Ciftcioglu, O. Gurbuz, “Opportunistic Scheduling with Frame Aggregation for Next Generation Wireless LANs,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
B. Ozdemir, O. Gurbuz, “Scheduling Approach for MIMO with Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.
E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, O. Gurbuz, “Proportional Time Sharing with Frame Size Adaptation for MB-OFDM based UWB WPANs,” IEEE LISAT, Long Island, USA, May 2006.
B. Ozdemir, O. Gurbuz, “A Feasible High Capacity Wireless Network Architecture with MIMO Precoding,” IEEE Wireless Communications Conference 2005, Maui, Hawaii, June 2005.
O. Ercetin, K. Bulbul, O. Gurbuz, and A. Aksu, “Joint Sensor Selection and Data Routing in Sensor Networks,” NETWORKING 2005, Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.
H. Seferoglu, Y. Altunbasak, O. Gurbuz, O. Ercetin, “Rate Distortion Optimization with Adaptive FEC for Real-time Wireless Multimedia”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, Korea, May 2005.
E. Ulukan, O. Gurbuz, “Location Based Scheduling with Angular MAC protocol for Wireless Networks with Smart Antennas,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.
A. Yanik, O. Gurbuz, “A Hybrid ARQ Scheme Combined with Throughput Optimization for Broadband Wireless Access,” XIV. National Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications (SIU), Kayseri, Turkey, May 2005.
E. Ulukan, O. Gurbuz, “Angular MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Smart Antennas,” XIII. National Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Applications (SIU), Kusadasi, Turkey, April 2004.
E. Ulukan, O. Gurbuz, “Using Switched Beam Smart Antennas in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Angular MAC Protocol,” The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC NET), Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004.
O. Gurbuz, E. Ayanoglu, “A Transparent ARQ Scheme for Broadband Wireless Access,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Atlanta, GA, March 2004.
E. Ayanoglu, B.L. Douglas, O. Gurbuz, E.Perahia, K. Toussi, “BWIF - Bringing Broadband Wireless Access Indoors,” Broadband Wireless Internet Forum (BWIF) White Paper, Doc. No. WP-4_TG-1, September 2001.
O.Gurbuz, H.Owen, “Dynamic Resource Scheduling Strategies for QoS in W-CDMA,” Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, December 1999.
J. Felten, O. Gurbuz, H. Owen, “Modeling, Simulation, and Verification of An Enterprise Network,” Proceedings of Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, December 1999.
O.Gurbuz, H. Owen, “Modeling of IPX/IGX Switches,” Proceedings of OPNETWORK'99, Washington DC, USA, August 1999.
O.Gurbuz, H.Owen, “Dynamic Resource Scheduling for variable QoS Traffic in W-CDMA,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Vancouver, Canada, June 1999.
O.Gurbuz, H.Owen, “A Resource Management Framework for QoS Provisioning in W-CDMA Systems,” Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Houston, TX, USA, May 1999.
O.Gurbuz, E. Ayanoglu, R. Meier, “Point-to-Point MAC Protocol for High Speed Wireless Bridging, ” US Patent 7,567,537, issued July 2009.
R.Radhakrishnan, K. Patel, O. Gurbuz, E. Ayanoglu, A. Khanna, A. Bernstein, C. Chan, “ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) for Broadband Fixed Wireless Network,” US Patent 7,000,021, issued February 2006.
O. Gurbuz, D. Pignatelli, D. Stephenson, E. Perahia, B. Douglas, E. Ayanoglu, “Media Access Control for MIMO Wireless Network,” US Patent 7,301,924, issued November 2007.
ENS211, Signals: Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005
TE303, Introduction to Communications, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
TE404, Multimedia Communication: Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007
TE412, Wireless Communications: Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006
EE555, Wireless and Mobile Networks: Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005 , Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009