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    • 5G Infrastructures supporting end-user and operational services: the 5G-XHaul architectural perspective 

      Tzanakaki, Anna; Simeonidou, Dimitra; Berberana, Ignacio; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Camps Mur, Daniel; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Gutiérrez, Jesús; Wei, Qing; Fehske, Albrecht; Eiselt, Michael; Bartelt, Jens; Lyberopoulos, George; Grass, Eckhard; Anastasopoulos, Markos; Korakis, Thanasis; Flegkas, Paris; Pateromichelakis, Emmanouil; Grieger, Michael; Theodoropoulou, Eleni (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      We propose an optical-wireless 5G infrastructure offering converged fronthauling/backhauling functions to support both operational and end-user cloud services. A layered architectural structure required to efficiently ...
    • 5G transport network blueprint and dimensioning for a dense urban scenario 

      Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Camps Mur, Daniel; Bartelt, Jens; Zou, Jim (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      In this paper, we provide a quantitative evaluation of the deployment aspects and dimensioning of the 5G transport architecture in a representative European city. In particular, we select an example dense urban city scenario ...
    • 5G transport network requirements for the next generation fronthaul interface 

      Bartelt, Jens; Vucic, Nikola; Camps Mur, Daniel; García Villegas, Eduard; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Fehske, Albrecht; Grieger, Michael; Tzanakaki, Anna; Gutiérrez Terán, Jesús; Grass, Eckhard; Lyberopoulos, George; Fettweis, Gerhard (2017-05-15)
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      To meet the requirements of 5G mobile networks, several radio access technologies, such as millimeter wave communications and massive MIMO, are being proposed. In addition, cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architectures ...
    • A holistic approach to ZigBee performance enhancement for home automation networks 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2014-08-01)
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      Wireless home automation networks are gaining importance for smart homes. In this ambit, ZigBee networks play an important role. The ZigBee specification defines a default set of protocol stack parameters and mechanisms ...
    • A novel wake-up communication system using solar panel and visible light communication 

      Carrascal, Carolina; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      One of the most promising energy-efficient communication methods is the use of wake-up receivers. In this paper, we propose and develop a novel wake-up communication system that uses Visible Light Communication (VLC) and ...
    • A survey on modulation techniques in molecular communication via diffusion 

      Kuran, Mehmet Sükrü; Yilmaz, Hüseyin Birkan; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Farsad, Nariman; Goldsmith, Andrea (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-12-31)
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      This survey paper focuses on modulation aspects of molecular communication, an emerging field focused on building biologically-inspired systems that embed data within chemical signals. The primary challenges in designing ...
    • Active queue management as quality of service enabler for 5G networks 

      Irazabal Bengoa, Mikel; López Aguilera, M. Elena; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
      Conference report
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      5G is envisioned as the key technology for guaranteeing low-latency wireless services. Packets will be marked with QoS Flow Indicators (QFI) for different forwarding treatment. 3GPP defines the end-to-end delay limits, but ...
    • Adaptive sensing and optimal power allocation for wireless video sensors with sigma-delta imager 

      Malijan, Marisa; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Maricic, Daniel (2010-10)
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      We consider optimal power allocation for wireless video sensors (WVSs), including the image sensor subsystem in the system analysis. By assigning a power-rate-distortion (P-R-D) characteristic for the image sensor, we build ...
    • ADV-MAC: analysis and optimization of energy efficiency through data advertisements for wireless sensor networks 

      Ray, Sourya; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Heinzelman, Wendi (Elsevier, 2011-07)
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      Several Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been proposed for wireless sensor networks with the objective of minimizing energy consumption. For example, Sensor-MAC (S-MAC) was proposed to reduce energy consumption ...
    • An alternative to IEEE 802.11ba: wake-up radio with legacy IEEE 802.11 transmitters 

      Cervià Caballé, Martí; Calveras Augé, Anna M.; López Aguilera, M. Elena; García Villegas, Eduard; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-04-09)
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      Current standardization process for Wake-up Radio (WuR) within the IEEE 802.11 Working Group, known as the IEEE 802.11ba, has brought interest to the IEEE 802.11-related technologies for the implementation of WuR systems. ...
    • Are mobility management solutions ready for 5G and beyond? 

      Jain, Akshay; López Aguilera, M. Elena; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin (Elsevier, 2020-09-01)
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      Enabling users to move to different geographical locations within a network and still be able to maintain their connectivity and most essentially, continuity of service, is what makes any wireless network ubiquitous. Whilst ...
    • BaNa: a noise resilient fundamental frequency detection algorithm for speech and music 

      Yang, Na; Ba, He; Cai, Weiyang; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Heinzelman, Wendi (2014-08-27)
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      Fundamental frequency (F0) is one of the essential features in many acoustic related applications. Although numerous F0 detection algorithms have been developed, the detection accuracy in noisy environments still needs ...
    • Broadband Networks and Services 

      Hesselbach Serra, Xavier; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-01-14)
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    • Capacity and congestion aware flow control mechanism for efficient traffic aggregation in multi-radio dual connectivity 

      Pupiales Yépez, Carlos; Laselva, Daniela; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-08-16)
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      Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) is a key 3GPP technology that enables traffic aggregation between two base stations (BSs), and thus, increasing the per-user data rate. However, the schemes for traffic aggregation ...
    • Channel model of molecular communication via diffusion in a vessel-like environment Considering a Partially Covering Receiver 

      Turan, Meriç; Kuran, Mehmet Sükrü; Yilmaz, Hüseyin Birkan; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Tugcu, Tuna (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      By considering potential health problems that a fully covering receiver may cause in vessel-like environments, the implementation of a partially covering receiver is needed. To this end, distribution of hitting location ...
    • CoAP congestion control for the Internet of Things 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (2016-07)
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      CoAP is a lightweight RESTful application layer protocol devised for the IoT. Operating on top of UDP, CoAP must handle congestion control by itself. The core CoAP specification defines a basic congestion control mechanism, ...
    • CoCoA+: an advanced congestion control mechanism for CoAP 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Elsevier, 2015-10-01)
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      The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Due to the limited radio channel capacities and hardware resources of such ...
    • Competition: interference-aware multi-channel cross layer protocol for energy-efficient and low-delay networking 

      Sierra Aiello, Guillermo; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Calveras Augé, Anna M.; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; García Villegas, Eduard; Betzler, August (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016)
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      This document aims to present the general ideas and methodology that are planned to be used for the EWSN 2016 Dependability Competition by the Wireless Networks Group of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. We designed, ...
    • Congestion control in reliable CoAP communication 

      Betzler, August; Gómez Montenegro, Carlos; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Paradells Aspas, Josep (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013)
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      The development of IPv6 stacks for wireless constrained devices that have limited hardware resources has paved the way for many new areas of applications and protocols. The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been ...
    • Cross-layer energy optimization under image quality constraints for wireless image transmissions 

      Yang, N.; Demirkol, Ilker Seyfettin; Heinzelman, W. (2012)
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      Wireless image transmission is critical in many applications, such as surveillance and environment monitoring. In order to make the best use of the limited energy of the battery-operated cameras, while satisfying the ...