Past News (2021-2016)
November 2021: Presentation at IEEE Future Networks 1st Massive MIMO Workshop: “Present and Future of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Communications”. [Slides]
October 2021: Upcoming in-person seminar at TUBITAK-BILGEM: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G”.
September 2021: CoreLab members İbrahim Yildirim and Ali Tuğberk Doğukan win 2021 IEEE ComSoc Turkey Best Master of Science Thesis Award.
September 2012: Upcoming 6G Panel at Istanbul Medipol University organized by 6G Platform. [6G Workshop] [6G Platform]
April 2021: Our IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Workshop on “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Future Wireless Communications” is accepted.
April 2021: Upcoming plenary talks on intelligent surfaces at Future of Wireless Technology Workshop and Carleton 6G Workshop Series.
November 2020: We have received the Best Paper Award of 12th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM 2020) with our paper entitled “SimRIS Channel Simulator for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Communication Systems”.
October 2020: Our book “Flexible and Cognitive Radio Access Technologies for 5G and Beyond” is out! [Amazon] [IET]
September 2020: Upcoming Webinar “Wireless Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” on 29-September-2020, 16:00-17:30 (GMT+3) hosted by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Frontiers in Communications and Networks.
August 2020: Our comprehensive presentation (tutorial) on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is available at [Youtube] [Slides]
August 2020: IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Initiative on “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” is active. For updates, follow our website!
August 2020: Our Feature Topic “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Design and Implementation” at IEEE Communications Magazine is online. Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 December 2020. [Call for Papers]
August 2020: Our Research Topic “Wireless Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Fundamentals, Experimentation, and Applications” at Frontiers in Communications and Networks is online. [Call for Papers]
August 2020: SimRIS Channel Simulator v2.0 is out. It adds MIMO capability to its earlier version. Our visionary article focusing on SimRIS, as well as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, is also available. [Paper 3]
July 2020: Dr. Basar has joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Communications and Networks.
June 2020: SimRIS Channel Simulator has been released. It is an open-source and MATLAB-based simulator, which can be used in channel modeling of reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted systems with tunable operating frequency, terminal locations, number of RIS elements, and environments. [Paper 1] [Paper 2]
May 2020: Dr. Basar has received Scientist of the Year Award from Science Heroes Association.
March 2020: Dr. Basar has received the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region. [KU:News] [ComSoc]
December 2019: New preprint on RISs: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Doppler Effect and Multipath Fading Mitigation”.
November 2019: The most recent Special Issue of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IEEE J-STSP): “Index Modulation for Future Wireless Networks: A Signal Processing Perspective” is edited by us. [Editorial]
November 2019: Upcoming talk at Ericsson Research Day in Turkey: “Beyond 5G and 6G: A Physical Layer Perspective”.
August 2019: Dr. Basar has been appointed as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters.
June 2019: An overview of enabling technologies, recent advances, and potential research directions in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, which can be potential enablers for 6G and beyond! Our new preprint: “Wireless Communications Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” [PDF]
May 2019: Colloquium @ Uludag University: Today and Future of Communication Technologies [Presentation]
May 2019: Index modulation meets large intelligent surfaces: “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Index Modulation: A New Beyond MIMO Paradigm for 6G” [PDF]
Matlab Codes are available at [MATLAB].
May 2019: PIMRC 2019 Special Session: Physical Layer Solutions for 6G. [Call For Papers] [EDAS]
March 2019: Dr. Basar has been appointed as the Coordinator of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Graduate Programme of GSSE.
February 2019: Our new preprint on a promising beyond massive MIMO technology for 6G: “Transmission Through Large Intelligent Surfaces: A New Frontier in Wireless Communications” [PDF].
MATLAB codes are available at [MATLAB].
February 2019: Our article “Index Modulation Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks” has been featured in IEEE Access as one of the Top 5 Most Cited Articles published in 2017. [Web]
January 2019: Our Special Issue “Advances in Signal Processing for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access” at IEEE Access is now open. [CFP]
December 2018: Dr. Basar has received the ODTÜ Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award.
[Parlar:News]
October 2018: CoreLab Seminar II – “Activities of IEEE 802 Wireless Groups towards 5G” by Dr. Tunçer Baykaş. [Info]
September 2018: Dr. Basar will moderate the “6G Vision Panel” at 6G Workshop 2018. Date: 25-Sep-2018, Location: İstanbul Medipol University.
August 2018: CoreLab Seminar I – “Recent Advances in Space Modulation Techniques” by Dr. Raed Mesleh. [Info] [Pic1] [Pic2] [Pic3]
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July 2018: Our website https://corelab.ku.edu.tr is up and running.
July 2018: Dr. Basar joined Koç University!
May 2018: Our Special Issue on “Index Modulation for Future Wireless Networks: A Signal Processing Perspective” at IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing is now open. [CFP]
May 2018: Our first US patent has been granted: “MIMO-OFDM-IM Communications System”, US 9,960,831 B2. [PDF]
April 2018: Dr. Basar has received the Exemplary Reviewer Award of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2017).
April 2018: Dr. Basar has joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Communications as an Editor. [IEEE TCOM]
March 2018: Dr. Basar has been awarded by Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) – Outstanding Young Scientist Award Programme (BAGEP). [BAGEP:news]
February 2018: Our Special Section “Index Modulation Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks” at IEEE Access has been closed with a record of 23 accepted articles. [Editorial]
February 2018: We have received a new TUBITAK-1001 Grant for the period of 2018-2021.
January 2018: Our Special Issue on “Radio Access Technologies for Beyond 5G Wireless Networks” at Physical Communication (Elsevier) is now open. [CFP]
December 2017: Dr. Basar has received IEEE Turkey Research Encouragement Award. [IEEE Turkey:news] [TUBA:news]
November 2017: Dr. Basar has been awarded by Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) – Outstanding Young Scientist Award Programme (GEBİP).
[TUBA:news]
July 2017: Dr. Basar has joined the Editorial Board of Physical Communication (Elseiver) as an Editor. [PHYCOM]
July 2017: We have received the Best Graduation Project Award from Electrical Engineers Branch of Turkey (EMO). [Web]
May 2017: We have received the IEEE ComSoc Turkey Best Student Paper Award at SIU 2017, Antalya, Turkey. [Web] [PDF]
May 2017: Our first journal paper on visible light communications (VLC) & Journal version of our award-winning ICC 2016 paper:
“Optical MIMO-OFDM with Generalized LED Index Modulation” [Researchgate:pdf] [IEEEXplore]
May 2017: Our first paper on media-based modulation (MBM): “Space-time Channel Modulation”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. [PDF] [IEEEXplore]
March 2017: Dr. Basar has received the title of “Associate Professor” (Doçent) from ÜAK.
February 2017: Our Special Section “Index Modulation Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks” at IEEE Access is accepting submissions.
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2017. Guest Editorial Team: Ertugrul Basar, Miaowen Wen, Read Mesleh, Marco Di Renzo, Yue Xiao, Harald Haas. [CFP]
November 2016: Upcoming talks at 3rd ASELSAN HBT Workshop, Ankara, Turkey on index modulation techniques and MIMO visible light communications systems [Programme].
October 2016: Accepted book chapter: “Index Modulation: A Promising Technique for 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks”,
Networks of The Future: Architectures, Technologies, and Implementations, CRC Press, Sept. 2017. [CRC Press]
June 2016: Dr. Basar has joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Communıcatıons Letters as an Associate Editor. [IEEE CL]
May 2016: Dr. Basar has joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Access as an Associate Editor. [IEEE Access]
May 2016: Dr. Basar has received the Best Paper Award (BPA) from ICC 2016. [PDF]
April 2016: Our first tutorial paper has been accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine. [PDF]
March 2016: Dr. Basar has elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
February 2016: Dr. Basar gave a keynote speech at South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China.
“Index Modulation Techniques for 5G Wireless Networks”
January 2016: Dr. Basar attended to 5G Private Partnership (5GPPP) InfoDay in Brussels, Belgium.