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JOURNALS

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen,  and V. Sawant, “Cooperative Partitioned Search for Empty Spectrum Detection in Cognitive Radios”, to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2011.

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen,  G. Mergen,  M. Gastpar ``Unified Analysis of Distributed Estimation over Fading Multiaccess Channels'',  to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Feb 2011. 

 

  • M. Sirdhar-Keralapura, M. Pourfathi, B. Sirkeci-Mergen “Independent component analysis with data-centric contrast functions for separating maternal and twin fetal ECG”, IAENG International Journal of  Computer Science, 38:1, pp: 38-47,  January 2011. download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, Michael Gastpar, ``On the cooperative broadcast capacity of wireless networks with cooperative relays'', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 8, Aug. 2010. download

 

  • Matthew Sharp, A. Scaglione, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, ``Randomized Cooperation in Asynchronous Dispersive Links”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 1, January 2009. download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Randomized Space-Time Coding for Distributed Cooperative Communication”,  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 10, Oct. 2007.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione ``On the power efficiency of cooperative broadcast in dense wireless networks”,  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2007 Page(s):497 – 507. download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, G. Mergen, ``Asymptotic Analysis of Multi-Stage Cooperative Broadcast in Wireless Networks”, Joint special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE/ACM Trans. On Networking, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2006 Page(s):2531 - 2550. download

 

CONFERENCES

 

  • Y. Quan, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Singh, “Distributed Space-time Codes with Preprocessing over Multiple Stages of Relays”, Proceedings of International Conference for Future Challenges in Wireless Communications, Optical Communications and Networks, Nov 27-29, 2010, Chandigarh, India. download

 

  • X. Liu, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, “Group-Orthogonal MAC for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios”, Proceedings of Milcom 2010, San Jose, CA. download

 

  • B. Yammanuru, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, “Multistage Cooperative Broadcast Using Amplify-and-Forward Relays”, Proceedings of Milcom 2010, San Jose, CA. download

 

  • M. Sirdhar-Keralapura, M. Pourfathi, B. Sirkeci-Mergen “Independent component analysis with data-centric contrast functions for separating maternal and twin fetal ECG”, accepted to be published in the proceedings of WCECS 2010 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Applications 2010 in San Francisco, USA. download

 

  • S. Venkatesh, N. Phipps,  B. Sirkeci-Mergen, M. Sridhar-Keralapura, `` An Optimized Fast-ICA Implementation for Separating Twin Electrocardiograms from Abdominal Recordings for Detecting Congenital Heart Defects”  Biotechnology Symposium, Jan. 2010  (abstract & poster presentation)

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, V. Sawant, R.H. Morelos-Zaragoza, ``A trade-off analysis of energy detectors and partitioned search for primary detection,” 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCN), 2009. download

 

  • G. Mergen, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, M. Gastpar ``Sufficient-statistics based multiple access over wireless fading channels”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2008.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, ``Distributed space-time codes with relay preprocessing for low SNR source-relay links'', 2008 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,  2008.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, Michael Gastpar, ``On The Scaling of the Broadcast Capacity of Extended Wireless Networks with Cooperative Relays'', Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,  Nov. 2007.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, Michael Gastpar, ``On the cooperative broadcast capacity of high density wireless networks'', The 2007 Information Theory and Applications workshop, January 2007, San Diego, CA (invited paper). download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione ``On the optimal power allocation for broadcasting in dense cooperative networks”, submitted to 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 2006, Seattle, Washington.   Extended version.

 

  • A Scaglione,  B. Sirkeci-Mergen, S. Geirhofer and L. Tong ``Randomized distributed multi-antenna systems in multi-path channels”,  Proc. of 14 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO06), Sep 2-8, 2006, Florence, Italy (invited paper).

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  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Randomized Space-Time Coding for Distributed Cooperative Communication: Fractional Diversity”, 2006 IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Randomized Space-Time Coding for Distributed Cooperative Communication”, IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC 2006.  download

 

  • Scaglione, S. Kirti, B. Sirkeci-Mergen, ``Error Propagation in Dense Wireless Networks with cooperation”, Proc. of Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 19-21, 2006, Nashville, TN. download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Randomized Distributed Space-Time coding for Cooperative Communication in Self-organized Networks”, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), June 5-8 2005, New York, NY.  download

 

  • Y.W. Hong , A. Scaglione A., R. Manohar, B.  Sirkeci-Mergen, “Dense Sensor Networks are also Energy Efficient: When ‘more’ is ‘less’ ”, Milcom 2005, Atlantic City, NJ, Oct. 17-20, 2005.  (received the Fred Ellersick Award, which is given to the best unclassified paper) download.

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A.  Scaglione, ``A Continuum Approach to Dense Wireless Networks with Cooperation”, Proc. of  IEEE INFOCOM, March 13-17 2005, Miami. download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Message Propagation in a Cooperative Network with Asynchronous Receptions”,  Proceeding of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 19-23 2005, Philadelphia, PA.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A.  Scaglione, ``Coverage Analysis of Cooperative Broadcast in Wireless Networks”,  IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC),  July 11-14 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.  download

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A.  Scaglione, ``Signal Acquisition for Cooperative Transmissions in Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Networks”,  Proceeding of the 2004 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2004, Montreal, Canada.  download

 

  • Y.W. Hong, B.  Sirkeci, A. Scaglione, ``Swarming activities to distribute information in large sensor networks”, in Proc. MILCOM Conference, Boston, MA, October 13-16, 2003.   download

 

  • B. Sirkeci, D. Brady, J. Burman, ``Restricted total least squares solutions for hyperspectral imagery", 2000 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Volume: 1, 5-9 June 2000.  download

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS   

 

·         A. Scaglione, Y.-W. Hong and B. Sirkeci-Mergen, “Cooperative strategies in dense sensor networks” published in “Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice”, G. Ferrari, Springer, 2009.

 

·         B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, and M. Gastpar “ Cooperative Broadcast in Large-Scale Wireless Networks”, published in “Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Framework for Virtual Antenna Array Applications”, Editor: M. Uysal, 2010.

 

  • B. Sirkeci-Mergen, A. Scaglione, ``Randomized cooperative transmission in large scale sensor networks”, published in ``Wireless  Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications Perspectives”,  A. Swami, Q. Zhao, Y. Hong, and L. Tong, Wiley, 2007.

 

 

THESIS 

 

·         B. Sirkeci, `` Distributed Cooperative Communication in Large-Scale Wireless Networks”, PhD Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006. Advisor: Anna Scaglione. download

 

·         B. Sirkeci, ``Total least squares approaches for spectral unmixing of hyperspectral imagery”, Master Thesis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2001. Advisor: David Brady.