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     Submitted Publications

    1. B. Tan Bacinoglu, B. Gulbahar, O. B. Akan, "Constant Fidelity Entanglement Flow in Quantum Communication Networks," 2010.

    2. B. Atakan, B. Gulbahar, O. B. Akan, "Immune System-inspired Evolutionary Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," 2010.

    3. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Carbon Nanotube-based Nanoscale Ad Hoc Networks," 2010.

    4. O. Ergul, G. Uyar, O. B. Akan, "Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks," 2010.

    5. A. O. Bicen, O. B. Akan, "Reliability and Congestion Control in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks," 2010.

    6. M. Aktas, O. B. Akan, "MCDSC: Maximum-Correlation Distributed Source Coding for Wireless Sensor Networks," 2009.

     Journal Papers

    1. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Deterministic Capacity of Information Flow in Molecular Nanonetworks," to appear in Nano Communication Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2010.

    2. M. Arik, O. B. Akan, "Collaborative Mobile Target Imaging in UWB Wireless Radar Sensor Networks," to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2010.

    3. G. A. Shah, O. B. Akan, "Timing-based Mobile Sensor Localization in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," to appear in ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, 2010.

    4. M. T. Isik, O. B. Akan, "A Three Dimensional Localization Algorithm for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 4457-4463, September 2009.

    5. O. B. Akan, M. T. Isik, B. Baykal, "Wireless Passive Sensor Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 92-99, August 2009.

    6. O. B. Akan, O. B. Karli, O. Ergul, "Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks," IEEE Network, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 34-40, July 2009.

    7. A. Bereketli, O. B. Akan, "Communication Coverage in Wireless Passive Sensor Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 2, pp.133-135, February 2009.

    8. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "On Channel Capacity and Error Compensation in Molecular Communication," Springer Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 359-370, April 2008.

    9. O. B. Akan, "Performance of Transport Protocols for Multimedia Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, pp. 826-828, October 2007.

    10. E. Gurses, O. B. Akan, "Multimedia Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks," Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 60, no. 7-8, pp. 799-827, July-August 2005.

    11. O. B. Akan, B. Baykal, "Handoff Performance Improvement with Latency Reduction in Next Generation Wireless Networks," ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal, vol. 11, no.3, pp. 319-332, May 2005.

     Book Chapters

    1. M. T. Isik, O. B. Akan, "Wireless Passive Sensor Networks," in Handbook on Sensor Networks, Edited by Y. Xiao, H. Chen, F. H. Li, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009.

    2. B. Atakan and O. B. Akan, "Biologically-inspired Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks," in "Bio-inspired Computing and Communication Networks", Edited by Y. Xiao and F. Hu, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, 2008.

    3. B. Atakan, T. Tugcu, O. B. Akan, "Bio-inspired Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks," in "Handbook of Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks", Edited by S. Misra, I. Woungang, and S. C. Misra, to appear in, Springer (London), 2008.

    4. O. B. Akan, "Spatio-temporal Correlation Theory in Wireless Sensor Networks," in "Handbook of Wireless Mesh & Sensor Networks", Edited by G. Aggelou, McGraw-Hill, 2007.

    5. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Immune System Based Energy Efficient and Reliable Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks," in "Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems", Edited by F. Dressler and I. Carreras, Springer, 2007.

    6. A. Bereketli, O. B. Akan, "Tactical Wireless Sensor Networks," in "NATO-ARW Volume", Edited by S. Olariu, 2007.

     Conference Papers

    1. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Single and Multiple-Access Channel Capacity in Molecular Nanonetworks," to appear in Proc. ICST/ACM Nano-Net 2009, Luzern, Switzerland, October 2009.

    2. B. Gulbahar, O. B. Akan, "Broadcast Routing in Quantum Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. IEEE Nanocom 2009, San Francisco, USA, August 2009.

    3. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Carbon Nanotube Sensor Networks," in Proc. IEEE Nanocom 2009, San Francisco, USA, August 2009.

    4. A. Bereketli, O. B. Akan, "Event-to-Sink Directed Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. IEEE WCNC'09, Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.

    5. M. T. Isik, O. B. Akan, "PADRE: Modulated Backscattering-based PAssive Data REtrieval in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. IEEE WCNC'09, Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.

    6. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "On Molecular Multiple-Access, Broadcast and Relay Channels in Nanonetworks," in Proc. ICST/ACM BIONETICS 2008, Hyogo, Japan, November 2008.

    7. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "An Information Theoretical Approach for Molecular Communication," in Proc. IEEE/ACM BIONETICS 2007, Budapest, Hungary, December, 2007.

    8. B. Atakan, A. Bereketli, O. B. Akan, "Homeostasis Based Communication in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," WOrkshop on advances in Wireless Networking (WOW-NET), IFIP Networking 2007, Atlanta, USA, May 2007.

    9. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "On Event Signal Reconstruction in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2007, Atlanta, GA, May 2007.

    10. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "BIOlogically-inspired Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. IEEE WCNC 2007, Hong Kong, March 2007.

    11. B. Atakan, O. B. Akan, "Immune System Based Distributed Node and Rate Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. IEEE/ICST First International Conference on Bio-inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2006), Cavalese, Italy, December 2006.

    12. G. A. Shah, O. B. Akan, and M. Bozyigit, "Multi-Event Adaptive Clustering (MEAC) Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop 2006 (MEDHOCNET 2006), Sicily, Italy, June 2006.

    13. G. A. Shah, M. Bozyigit, O. B. Akan, and B. Baykal, "Real-Time Coordination and Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks", in Proc. M6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2006), St. Petersburg, May 2006.


     Theses

    1. M. Arik, "Moving Object Imaging in UWB Radar Sensor Network", M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2008.

    2. I. Karaaslan, "Anti-sensor network : distortion-based distributed attack in wireless sensor networks", M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2008.

    3. O. Ayran, "Reliable real-time video communication in wireless sensor networks", M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2007.

    4. M. T. Isik, "Localization in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2007.

    5. M. Yagli, "The feasibility, reliable communication and networking aspects of passive wireless sensor networks", M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006.