Melda Yüksel

    TOBB University of Economics and Technology

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    Sögütözü Cad.No:43, Sögütözü, Ankara, 06560 Türkiye

    yuksel ~at~ etu ~dot~ edu ~dot~ tr
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Seminars on Signal Processing and Communications

TOBB ETU Seminars on Wireless Communications

Treasurer, ISIT 2013: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 7-12, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey


For Prospective Graduate Applicants:

I am continuously seeking for highly motivated students to work on various aspects of cooperative communications, such as adaptive modulation and coding, and resource management. If you are interested in performing research in one of these areas, please contact with me. I encourage the interested students to apply for the graduate program in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at TOBB ETU. A strong background in probability is advantegous.

The next application deadline is in June 2012. Please check the website for Institute of Science and Technology for application details. In our group, there is one opening for a masters degree.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, August 2007.

B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 2001.


Publications

Journal

A. Ö. Isikman and M. Yuksel. Transmission Strategies and Resource Allocation for Fading Broadcast Relay Channels. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, August 2011.

A. Sahai, V. Aggarwal, M. Yuksel and A. Sabharwal. Effective Relaying in Two-user Interference Channel with Different Models of Channel Output Feedback. Under second round of review, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, April 2012.

M. Yuksel and B. Yuksekkaya. Minimum Outage Probability for the Relay Channel under Individual Power Constraints. Accepted to IEEE Communications Letters, April 2012.

M. Yuksel, X.Liu and E. Erkip. A Secure Communication Game with a Relay Helping the Eavesdropper. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Special Issue on Using the Physical Layer for Securing the Next Generation of Communication Systems, vol. 6, no.3, p. 818 - 830, September 2011.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for the Multiple-Antenna Wire-tap Channel. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 762 - 771, March 2011.

O. Lévêque, C. Vignat, and M. Yuksel. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for the MIMO Static Half-Duplex Relay. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 7, p. 3356 - 3368, July 2010.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Multiple-Antenna Cooperative Wireless Systems: A Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Models, Theory, and Codes for Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, vol. 53, no. 10, p. 3371 - 3393, October 2007.


Book Chapter

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Information Theoretical Limits on Cooperative Communications. Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications, edited by Murat Uysal, July 2009, IGI-Global (invited).


Conference

S. A. Yildirim and M. Yuksel. Multiple Description Coding Based Compress-and-Forward for the Broadcast Relay Channel. Submitted to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, February 2012.

A. Ö. Isikman and M. Yuksel. Minimum Common Outage Probability for the Broadcast Relay Channel. In Proceedings of 2011 IWCMC Communication and Information Theory Symposium, July 2011.

M. Yuksel, X.Liu and E. Erkip. A Secrecy Game with an Informed Jammer Relay. In Proceedings of 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.

A. Sahai, V. Aggarwal, M. Yuksel and A. Sabharwal. Sum Capacity of General Deterministic Interference Channel with Channel Output Feedback. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, Texas, June 2010.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for MIMO Wire-tap Channels with CSIT. In Proceedings of European Wireless, Lucca, Italy, April 2010.

A. Sahai, V. Aggarwal, M. Yuksel and A. Sabharwal. On Channel Output Feedback in Deterministic Interference Channels. In Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Italy, October 2009.

M. Yuksel, X.Liu and E. Erkip. A Secure Communication Game with a Relay Helping the Eavesdropper. In Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Italy, October 2009.

O. Lévêque, C. Vignat, and M. Yuksel. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for the MIMO Static Half-Duplex Relay. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, Korea, July 2009.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for the multiple-antenna wire-tap channel. In Proceedings of 42nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March 2008.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Secure communication with a relay helping the wiretapper. In Proceedings of 2007 Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California, September 2007 (invited paper).

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Half-Duplex Relay Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE ICC Communication Theory Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007. (Communication Theory Symposium, Best Paper Award)

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. The Relay Channel with a Wire-tapper. In Proceedings of 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, March 2007.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Multiple-Antenna Relay Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, July 2006.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Cooperative Wireless Systems. In Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March 2006.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Can Virtual MIMO Mimic a Multi-Antenna System: Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for Wireless Relay Networks. Presented at the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (invited talk), Park City, Utah, June 2005.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Broadcast Strategies for the Fading Relay Channel. In Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM 2004 (invited paper), Monterey, October 2004.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity Gains and Clustering in Wireless Relaying. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, June 2004.

M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Diversity in Relaying Protocols with Amplify and Forward. In Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM Communication Theory Symposium, San Francisco, December 2003.


Conference papers in Turkish

A. S. Ünal, F. M. Özçelik and M. Yuksel. Outage Analysis for Half-duplex Interference Relay Channels. IEEE 18th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Diyarbakir, Turkey, April 2010.
Students
Ahmet Zahid Yalcin

Arif Önder Isikman

Seckin Anil Yildirim

Baris Yuksekkaya

Yasin Genc


Teaching


ELE 371 Signals and Systems- Summer 2012, Fall 2010, Summer 2009, Fall 2008

ELE 495 Senior Design Project- Summer 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008

ELE 468 Digital Communications- Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 (as ELE 464)

ELE 273 Probability Theory for Electrical Engineers- Summer 2011

ELE 474 Digital Signal Processing- Spring 2011, Spring 2008 (as ELE 372)

ELE 396 Communication Systems I- Summer 2010, Summer 2009

ELE 361L Communication Systems I Laboratory- Summer 2010

ELE 295L Foundations of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Lab.- Fall 2008, Summer 2008

ELE 295 Foundations of Electrical and Electronics Engineering- Summer 2008

MUH 100 Introduction to Engineering- Fall 2007