Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri
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Master Thesis Secure Beamforming for Millimeter Wave Communications(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Erdoğan, Oğulcan; Özbek, BernaOver the last decade, many advancements have been made in the field of wireless communications. Among the major technology enablers being explored for the fifth-generation (5G) networks at the physical layer (PHY), a great deal of attention has been focused on millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems and beamforming techniques. These enablers bring to the forefront great opportunities for enhancing the performance of 5G and beyond-5G networks, concerning throughput, spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, latency, and reliability. At the meantime, the wireless communication is prone to information leakage to the unintended nodes due to its open nature. Hence, the secure communication is becoming more critical in the wireless networks. To address this challenge, the concept of Physical Layer Security (PLS) is explored. In this thesis, we examine the statistical mmWave transmission through linear beamforming techniques for PLS based systems. We propose the secure multiuser (MU) MIMO mmWave communications by employing hybrid beamforming at the base stations (BS), legitimate users and eavesdroppers. Using a 3 Dimensional mmWave channel model for each node, we employ the artificial noise (AN) beamforming to jam the channels of eavesdroppers and to enhance the secrecy capacity of the overall communication system. We investigate the secrecy performance on different scenarios including the single cell and multicell mmWave MU-MIMO downlink communications and reveal the key points directly related to the system security.Master Thesis Beam Selection Techniques in Millimeter Wave Communications(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Cumalı, İrem; Özbek, BernaMillimeter wave (mmWave) communication is an advantageous technology which is capable of meeting the needs of future mobile networks. On the other hand, the propagation characteristics and system requirements are the restrictive factors for utilization of mmWave communication. Hybrid and digital beamforming architectures can be evaluated as worthy candidates to utilize mmWave communication. In the hybrid architecture, selection of a few number of beams by exploiting the sparse structure of the beamspace channel provides high spectral efficiency with low complexity. In this thesis, the multi-user mmWave communication in sparse and dense environments are investigated. Beam selection algorithms presented in the literature are performed for the sparse environment. While the number of users is equal to the number of radio frequency (RF) chains in a sparse environment, the number of RF chains is less than the number of users in a dense environment. Therefore, an algorithm which performs beam and user selection for the dense environment is proposed. The user selection in the proposed beam and user selection algorithm is performed based on the correlation among users’ channels. Since the users’ channels are highly correlated in mmWave communication, the proposed beam and user selection algorithm improves the spectral efficiency considerably. Furthermore, a non-uniform rectangular array (NURA) antenna configuration for mmWave communication is investigated when the digital beamforming architecture is employed. Then, a user selection algorithm is proposed under the case of lower number of antennas. The simulation results demonstrate the improvement in sum data rate through the proposed user selection algorithm in mmWave communication with NURA configuration.Master Thesis Interference Mitigation for Device-To Based Wireless Systems(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Acar, Süleyman Onur; Özbek, BernaDevice-to-device (D2D) communication provides an effective way to meet growing mobile traffic and capacity demand. D2D communication can improve existing cellular systems in several ways. When UEs are located in close proximity, they can communicate through direct links bypassing the base station (BS). In this way, the transmitter consumes less power while better Quality-of-Service can still be provided. D2D links can also increase both energy and spectrum efficiency by reusing downlink and uplink cellular resources. However, integrating D2D links into the cellular infrastructure complicates the interference situation because D2D communication might increase the co-channel interference and degrade cellular link quality. In this thesis, the interference mitigation techniques including resource allocation, power control and multiple antenna are proposed for D2D communications underlaying cellular systems to increase the data rate of both the cellular users and D2D pairs. The Zero-Forcing technique is carried out for interference mitigation by assuming perfect channel state information at the BS side. The effect of a limited feedback link for downlink cellular communication and channel estimation for uplink communication are considered for underlying multi antenna cellular system.Master Thesis Cell Selection Algorithms for Terrestrial Trunked Narrow Band Radio Systems(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Karataş, Azad; Özbek, BernaSince the interest in mobile communication sector is increasing day by day, it makes traffic volume problem more important. There are different works focused on developing more secure and qualified service for professional users and companies. The Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) system, specially developed for professional users in the communication sector, can be offered to the service of professional users and companies with the desired specifications. With the Tetra system, which is one of the PMR systems, users can get more advanced technological services than the conventional PMR systems. Cell selection algorithms have a great importance for these systems which are needed for more reliable, private and seamless communication. In this thesis, we present two novel cell selection algorithms that can be applied to the Tetra based PMR systems. In these algorithms, both the received power of users and the fair distribution of the overall system are considered. Performance evaluation of algorithms with different traffic characteristics is considered in different environments.Master Thesis Cell Selection Algorithms for Conventional Narrow Band Wireless Systems(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Yılmaz, Saadet Simay; Özbek, BernaPublic safety organizations provide a stable and secure environment for the society. Wireless communication between public safety officers is very important to transmit voice or data during an emergency crisis. When the public communication networks can not provide service during crisis, disaster and high traffic cases, Professional Mobile Radio systems (PMR) such as conventional Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO25) and trunked Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) systems are needed to improve the service quality and to provide uninterrupted service provided to the users. While providing continuous voice and data service, it is very important to efficiently select the base station to be served and to ensure that a mobile user can seamlessly attach from one base station to another base station while moving within a cell. In this sense, it is critical to determine the base station to be served by efficient cell selection algorithms. Cell selection is the process of deciding the base station which provides services to the users. Cell selection plays an important role in balancing the system load and thus overall system performance. By means of efficient cell selection algorithms, it is aimed to reduce the waiting time and to connect a base station as soon as possible while establishing reliable transmission link for PMR systems in emergencies.Master Thesis Multiple Antenna Based Phyical Layer Security Wireless Systems(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Özdoğan Şenol, Özgecan; Özbek, BernaIn the last decade, the demand for wireless services increases at unprecedented rates. Due to the inherent open nature of radio propagation, wireless transmission is vulnerable to various attacks despite its popularity. Therefore, communication security in wireless networks is becoming more critical than ever. Conventionally, cryptographic techniques are deployed on upper layers of network protocols as a solution. As a complement to the traditional cryptographic techniques, physical layer (PHY) security exploits the characteristics of wireless channels to enable secure wireless communications. The aim is to limit the amount of information that can be extracted by any unauthorized users via utilizing inherent randomness of noise and communication channels. The design of PHY security schemes is not based on the premise that eavesdropper has limited computational power contrary to upper layer secrecy techniques. In fact, the eavesdropper may have infinite computational power. Nevertheless, secure communication can be achieved by the combination of appropriate coding and transmit precoding design with the usage of available channel state information. PHY security methods can work independently from upper layer encryption techniques. Thus, PHY security techniques can be used to leverage the secrecy of already existing communication systems. In this thesis, PHY security enhancement mechanisms, especially in multiuser multiple antenna systems with a limited feedback link are investigated. Four different system models under secrecy consideration with different channel conditions including quasi-static fading channels, temporally correlated fading channels are presented. In order to disrupt the reception of any potential eavesdropper, artificial noise (AN) beamforming scheme is employed. The effects of lack of perfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and the AN leakage that is caused by limited CSIT are analyzed. The thesis proposes a reduction in feedback load using receiver side selection criterion with special codebook design and appropriate beamforming. Our approach is capable of enhancing the security of wireless communications by selecting the users with favorable channel conditions and quantizing channel direction information (CDI) by a special codebook. Also, inter-user interference is utilized as a jamming method when eavesdropper’s CSI unknown by the transmitter. Simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed PHY security mechanisms by examining the achievable secrecy rates.Master Thesis Rounting and Resource Allocation for Software Defined Mobile Networks(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Aydoğmuş, Yiğitcan; Özbek, BernaSince traffic diversity and volume increase with growing popularity of mobile applications, there is the strong need to manage the traffic carried by networks. Software defined networks can simplify network management while enabling new services by employing traffic management including routing whose goal is to maximize the given utility while satisfying capacity requirements. Another key concept to meet up huge data traffic is cloud-based radio access networks. By integrating cloud services to radio access networks, operators will make use of network functions virtualization which allows to host different virtualized functions on a common hardware platform. In this thesis, an efficient routing algorithm is proposed to minimize the cost based on power consumption determined by the number of active OpenFlow switches and active links in a software defined networks while satisfying throughput requirements of all flows according to constraints on link capacities in the software defined mobile network. The algorithm is also implemented in mobile network by combining resource allocation in a cloud radio access network. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated based on power consumption efficiency for different network topologies with various scenarios.Master Thesis Offloading Strategies for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Tuna, Evren; Özbek, BernaThere has been a tremendous increase in the usage of multimedia services with the rapid penetration of mobile devices. In parallel to the technological developments in hardware and software of communication devices, users demand to have higher quality and more reliable services. The developments in network technologies are towards forming a converged structure that mobile, fixed and internet access technologies are able to operate together. Heterogeneous wireless networks have a critical role in order to meet dramatically increasing traffic demand. As a result of better operation of the systems with the help of heterogeneous wireless networks, it is possible to serve subscribers with higher performance with the help of offloading which transfer the traffic load from a network to another one. Various strategies are used in order to offload traffic between different wireless communication technologies. The main objective of this thesis is to examine offloading strategies which provides operation of different wireless communication technologies efficiently in heterogeneous wireless networks. The performance evaluations of different offloading strategies in various scenarios are implemented. The comparisons of strategies which are user initiated and network initiated are provided by considering their overhead load.Master Thesis Cell Selection and Interference Coordination Techniques for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Mahmuda, Subaha; Özbek, BernaThe rapid growth of traffic demands during past years, has led to the immense deployment of heterogeneous wireless networks consisting large-scale macro cells overlaid with multiple tiers of small cells. This is conceived as the major capacity and performance enhancement coordinator by means of increasing the spectral efficiency per unit area. However, heterogeneous networks implementation comprises new technical challenges related to interference issues and throughput deterioration. Advanced interference coordination techniques are introduced to handle these challenges. The usage of range expansion allows captivating more users and hence attaining performance improvement, however causes extra downlink interference. This becomes exquisite for higher bias values; hence the benefits convert into significant deterioration. To overcome these issues, range expansion should be jointly designed with inter-cell interference coordination. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the concept of heterogeneous network, the cell selection strategies including range expansion, interference coordination schemes and energy efficiency. The performance evaluations are obtained to different macro-pico base stations deployment scenarios for heterogeneous network by using various cell selection algorithms with and without interference coordination depending on frequency allocation schemes to figure out their impact on the system performance for different contours.Master Thesis Interference Management Techniques for Femtocell Networks(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Bayrak, Uğur; Özbek, BernaThe need for high capacity and data rate increases with the growing demand for wireless communication. In order to meet this demand, one of the most effective ways of improving capacity and data rate is deployment of femtocell networks which are considered to be a promising technique for future wireless networks. However, mass deployment of these low-power base stations brings many challenges. Interference management will be one of the major challenges for the dense deployment scenarios of femtocells in coverage of the macro base stations. To cope with interference problem, there are many interference management techniques. In this thesis, power control and beamforming techniques are implemented separately and jointly in order to deal with cross-tier downlink interference which occurs between macro base station and users of femtocell. In this two-tier network system involving femtocell and macrocell layers, power control problem, first, is investigated. Feasible transmission power region for femtocell is determined with respect to the user locations so that targeted signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) values are satisfied. Secondly, beamforming technique is applied using partial zero-forcing method. In this method, beamforming vectors are designed to remove cross-tier interference. It is observed that SINR of macro base station’s user does not undergoes any degradation in the nearfield region of femtocell. Finally, we apply these two techniques jointly. Since both interference suppression and power-efficiency is provided, joint technique seems to be a viable and environment-friendly solution for femtocell networks.