Past News (2019-2016)

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]

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.