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  • Master Thesis
    Wireless Physical Layer Network Coding for Multiple Antenna Systems
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) İlgüy, Mert; Özbek, Berna
    Wireless networks are prone to interference due to their broadcast nature. In the design of most of the traditional networks, this broadcast nature is perceived as a performance-degrading factor. However, physical layer network coding (PNC) exploits this broadcast nature by enabling simultaneous transmissions from different sources and facilitates an increase in the spectral efficiency of the wireless networks. Besides, the massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) is considered as one of key technologies to improve the spectral efficiency for wireless communication systems. The combination of PNC and multi-user massive MIMO in the sixth generation (6G) networks can increase further the spectral efficiency. In this thesis, PNC based systems are examined via bit error rate (BER) and coverage probability by focusing on the BER of the network coded symbol (NCS). Hence, PNC based systems are compared with network coding (NC) and conventional schemes. The influence of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) differences of the users are examined on the BER performances. Thereby, an alternative method to estimate NCS is proposed for the MIMO-PNC systems without using log likelihood ratio (LLR). We derive a closed form expression for the coverage probability in PNC based multi-user massive MIMO systems by employing zero forcing (ZF) equalization. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based PNC system is proposed. We show the applicability of the PNC in the NOMA based MIMO systems by giving the the BER performance results.
  • Master Thesis
    Secure Beamforming for Millimeter Wave Communications
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Erdoğan, Oğulcan; Özbek, Berna
    Over 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, Berna
    Millimeter 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
    Offloading Strategies for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Tuna, Evren; Özbek, Berna
    There 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, Berna
    The 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
    Implementation of Relay-Based Systems in Wireless Cellular Networks
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2010) Çınar, Melih; Özbek, Berna
    The wireless cellular networks are limited by interference and coverage issues where the users at the edge of the cell usually do not receive enough signal energy. To combat these problems and provide higher signal to interference noise ratio and capacity without increasing the transmit power, the idea of using relays in cellular networks was explored and evaluated in the literature. On the other hand, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna systems have great potential to increase capacity and reliability of a wireless cellular network compared to single input single output systems. Hence, the integration of MIMO systems in the relay-based cellular networks has great potential to meet the growing demands of future communication. In this thesis, we explore the performances in conventional and relay-based wireless systems with single and multiple antennas by ad justing the frequency reuse factor as one and four. We consider wireless cellular based networks where six fixed relays are placed evenly in each cell in a hexagonal layout. A user chooses to receive the transmitted signal either directly from the base station or via one of the relays by employing selection algorithms. Throughout this thesis, we first determine the optimum relay locations considering different relay powers. Then, we investigate the system capacity for the cell with and without relays. Next, we examine the capacity performances by changing the cell diameter and the relay power. Finally, we explore the performances of relay based networks with multiple antennas.