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Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2A Non-Resonant Approach for Dielectric Constant Reconstructions Via Newton Iterations(Elsevier, 2023) Özkal, Ceren; Yaman, FatihIn this study, a Newton–Raphson-based iterative method has been proposed to obtain dielectric constants accurately from measurements. The originalities of the approach lie in its applicability at non-resonant frequencies, which brings a significant experimental simplicity by avoiding critical coupling, expansion of available frequencies in different bands with the same cost-efficient low-Q (?60) cavity. The direct problem involves either measuring power values inside a cavity (14.6 × 5 × 20.6) cm via a spectrum analyzer or simulating the complete setup via CST-MWS software at one of the non-resonant modes, 1.5 GHz. The solution to the inverse problem provides fastly converging results with an error rate of 1% for the unknown permittivities. The experiments were carried out using five different liquid samples even though the proposed technique does not have a limitation on solid materials. Applicability and the effectiveness of the introduced method is illustrated in detail and comparisons with the perturbation method is provided. © 2023 Elsevier GmbHArticle Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 7Time-Resolved Eeg Signal Analysis for Motor Imagery Activity Recognition(Elsevier, 2023) Olcay, Bilal Orkan; Karaçalı, BilgeAccurately characterizing brain activity requires detailed feature analysis in the temporal, spatial, and spectral domains. While previous research has proposed various spatial and spectral feature extraction methods to distinguish between different cognitive tasks, temporal feature analysis for each separate brain region and frequency band has been largely overlooked. This study introduces two novel approaches for recognizing cognitive activity: temporal entropic profiling and time-aligned common spatio-spectral patterns analysis. These approaches capture and use discriminative short-lived signal segments for motor imagery activity recognition. In Approach-1, we evaluated nine different measures to determine timing parameters that showed altered behavior associated with maximal inter-activity differences, which we then used in a machine-learning framework. In Approach-2, we used the best-performing signal characteristic measures from Approach-1 to determine the optimum latency of each channel at each frequency band for a CSP-based activity recognition strategy. We evaluated both approaches on two online available motor imagery EEG datasets and achieved average recognition accuracy levels of 86%. We compared our methods with four established BCI methods. The performance results show that our approaches exceeded the benchmark methods' performances, with notable improvements in the proposed time-aligned common spatio-spectral patterns approach. This study demonstrates that motor imagery recognition performance is improved when a temporal analysis is adopted alongside spatio-spectral neural feature analysis and that timing parameters associated with the maximal entropic difference of EEG segments to the cognitive tasks varied between different brain regions and subjects. © 2023 Elsevier LtdArticle Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 10Analysis of Crosstalk Effects in Phase-Otdr System Using Fiber Bragg Grating Array(Elsevier, 2023) Koçal, Ertunga Burak; Yüksel, Kıvılcım; Wuilpart, MarcIn this paper, the parasitic components (i.e., multi-reflections, Rayleigh scattering, photodetector noise, and phase variations due to external perturbations) are analysed and based on this analysis, a new signal to noise ratio (SNR) definition is provided suitable for the FBG-assisted Phase-OTDR system. A detailed analysis of performance parameters in the presence of multi reflection crosstalk (including its first- and second-order components) and spectral shadowing crosstalk is presented. SNR was calculated for different reflectivity and spacing lengths showing that the maximum number of cascaded FBGs can be significantly increased by using lower FBG reflectivity. It was also observed that the spacing length distance does not have a significant impact on the maximum number of FBGs that can be interrogated. By comparing single-pulse and double-pulse configurations, the use of double pulse was shown to provide higher SNR values when the number of FBGs is around 100 FBGs. The multi-reflection crosstalk when combined with the spectral-shadowing effect was demonstrated to create secondary crosstalk components making the interpretation of spectral analysis more difficult.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Current Sensing Using a Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometer: Feasibility Study(Elsevier, 2022) Wuilpart, Marc; Şirin, Şamil; Yüksel Aldoğan, KıvılcımA novel method for distributed current sensing using an FBG-assisted Phase-OTDR with Mach-Zehnder Interferometer is proposed. The detrimental effect of the intrinsic linear birefringence of the sensing fiber is solved by calibration. An FBG pair is written at the two ends of the spun fiber coil to eliminate phase fading and increase the measurement accuracy. A simulation tool was developed to reveal the feasibility of the approach by investigating the impact of the detector noise as well as the effects of bending- and FBG-induced linear birefringence on the sensing performance.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Mobile human ad hoc networks: A communication engineering viewpoint on interhuman airborne pathogen transmission(Elsevier, 2022) Güleç, Fatih; Atakan, Barış; Dressler, FalkoA number of transmission models for airborne pathogens transmission, as required to understand airborne infectious diseases such as COVID-19, have been proposed independently from each other, at different scales, and by researchers from various disciplines. We propose a communication engineering approach that blends different disciplines such as epidemiology, biology, medicine, and fluid dynamics. The aim is to present a unified framework using communication engineering, and to highlight future research directions for modeling the spread of infectious diseases through airborne transmission. We introduce the concept of mobile human ad hoc networks (MoHANETs), which exploits the similarity of airborne transmission-driven human groups with mobile ad hoc networks and uses molecular communication as the enabling paradigm. In the MoHANET architecture, a layered structure is employed where the infectious human emitting pathogen-laden droplets and the exposed human to these droplets are considered as the transmitter and receiver, respectively. Our proof-of-concept results, which we validated using empirical COVID-19 data, clearly demonstrate the ability of our MoHANET architecture to predict the dynamics of infectious diseases by considering the propagation of pathogen-laden droplets, their reception and mobility of humans.Article Citation - WoS: 22Citation - Scopus: 26Adaptive Sign Algorithm for Graph Signal Processing(Elsevier, 2022) Yan, Yi; Kuruoğlu, Ercan Engin; Altınkaya, Mustafa AzizEfficient and robust online processing techniques for irregularly structured data are crucial in the current era of data abundance. In this paper, we propose a graph/network version of the classical adaptive Sign algorithm for online graph signal estimation under impulsive noise. The recently introduced graph adaptive least mean squares algorithm is unstable under non-Gaussian impulsive noise and has high computational complexity. The Graph-Sign algorithm proposed in this work is based on the minimum dispersion criterion and therefore impulsive noise does not hinder its estimation quality. Unlike the recently proposed graph adaptive least mean pth power algorithm, our Graph-Sign algorithm can operate without prior knowledge of the noise distribution. The proposed Graph-Sign algorithm has a faster run time because of its low computational complexity compared to the existing adaptive graph signal processing algorithms. Experimenting on steady-state and time-varying graph signals estimation utilizing spectral properties of bandlimitedness and sampling, the Graph-Sign algorithm demonstrates fast, stable, and robust graph signal estimation performance under impulsive noise modeled by alpha stable, Cauchy, Student's t, or Laplace distributions.Editorial Guest Editorial for Signal Processing Aspects of Molecular Communications(Elsevier, 2022) Atakan, Barış; Galmés, Sebastià; Haselmayr, Werner; Farsad, Nariman; Nakano, TadashiMolecular communication is the most widespread communication mechanism on the Earth since it is fundamental for all living entities from unicellular organisms to multicellular animals and plants to maintain their vital functionalities. For example, many unicellular organisms sense and react to molecular signals from their surroundings to control their life cycles. Some signaling molecules called pheromone are also extensively employed by a variety of insects to send and receive information to coordinate colony activities. Moreover, in the neuronal system, signaling molecules known as neurotransmitters are used in junction points of neuron cells to carry out many mental activities. In addition to the various molecular communication mechanisms in nature, the recent advances in nano- and biotechnology have shown that molecular communication is one of the most favorable choices to enable the interconnection of nanomachines such as engineered cells and bionanorobots. The network of such nanomachines, i.e., nanonetwork, is considered to make frontier biomedical applications a reality. In these applications, molecular communication can enable the nanomachines to share information so as to provide reliability and controllability. Furthermore, this can also allow different nanomachine populations to be coordinated to reach highly sophisticated behavior and increase the number of design possibilities.Article Citation - WoS: 1Maximum Average Entropy-Based Quantization of Local Observations for Distributed Detection(Elsevier, 2022) Wahdan, Muath A.; Altınkaya, Mustafa AzizIn a wireless sensor network, multilevel quantization is necessary to find a compromise between minimizing the power consumption of sensors and maximizing the detection performance at the fusion center (FC). The previous methods have been using distance measures such as J-divergence and Bhattacharyya distance in this quantization. This work proposes a different approach based on the maximum average entropy of the output of the sensors under both hypotheses and utilizes it in a Neyman-Pearson criterion-based distributed detection scheme to detect a point source. The receiver operating characteristics of the proposed maximum average entropy (MAE) method in quantizing sensor outputs have been evaluated for multilevel quantization both when the sensor outputs are available error-free at the FC and when non-coherent M-ary frequency shift keying communication is used for transmitting MAE based multilevel quantized sensor outputs over a Rayleigh fading channel. The simulation studies show the success of the MAE in the cases of both error-free fusion and where the effect of the wireless channel has been incorporated. As expected, the performance improves as the level of quantization increases and with six-level quantization approaches the performance of non-quantized data transmission.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Deep Learning Based Adaptive Bit Allocation for Heterogeneous Interference Channels(Elsevier, 2021) Aycan, Esra; Özbek, Berna; Le Ruyet, DidierThis paper proposes an adaptive bit allocation scheme by using a fully connected (FC) deep neural network (DNN) considering imperfect channel state information (CSI) for heterogeneous networks. Achieving an accurate CSI has a crucial role on the system performance of the heterogeneous networks. Different quantization techniques have been employed to reduce the feedback overhead. However, the system performance cannot increase linearly with the number of bits increasing exponentially. Since optimizing the total number of bits is too complex for the entire network, an initial step is performed to distribute the bits to each cell in the conventional method. Then, the distributed bits are further allocated to each channel optimally. In order to enable direct allocation for the entire network, a FC-DNN based method is presented in this study. The optimized number of bits can be directly obtained for a different number of bits and scenarios by the proposed approach. The simulations are performed by using various scenarios with different allocation schemes. The performance results show that the DNN based method achieves a closer performance to the conventional approach. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 10Citation - Scopus: 13On the Characterization of Cognitive Tasks Using Activity-Specific Short-Lived Synchronization Between Electroencephalography Channels(Elsevier, 2021) Olcay, B. Orkan; Özgören, Murat; Karaçalı, BilgeAccurate characterization of brain activity during a cognitive task is challenging due to the dynamically changing and the complex nature of the brain. The majority of the proposed approaches assume stationarity in brain activity and disregard the systematic timing organization among brain regions during cognitive tasks. In this study, we propose a novel cognitive activity recognition method that captures the activity-specific timing parameters from training data that elicits maximal average short-lived pairwise synchronization between electroencephalography signals. We evaluated the characterization power of the activity-specific timing parameter triplets in a motor imagery activity recognition framework. The activity-specific timing parameter triplets consist of latency of the maximally synchronized signal segments from activity onset Delta t, the time lag between maximally synchronized signal segments t, and the duration of the maximally synchronized signal segments w. We used cosine-based similarity, wavelet bi-coherence, phase-locking value, phase coherence value, linearized mutual information, and cross-correntropy to calculate the channel synchronizations at the specific timing parameters. Recognition performances as well as statistical analyses on both BCI Competition-III dataset IVa and PhysioNet Motor Movement/Imagery dataset, indicate that the interchannel short-lived synchronization calculated using activity-specific timing parameter triplets elicit significantly distinct synchronization profiles for different motor imagery tasks and can thus reliably be used for cognitive task recognition purposes. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.