Publications

Technical reports

  • “Technical Report on 5G Network Architecture and Security”, DCMS Phase 1 Testbeds and Trials Programme”, UK5G Innovation Network, 18 December 2018, available at: https://uk5g.org/discover/research/technical-report-5g-network-architecture-and-secur/

Journal publications

  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Priority-based Flow Control for Dynamic and Reliable Flow Management in SDN”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, November 2018.
  • Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Paul Bucknell, Gerard Foster, Rahim Tafazolli, and Julien Muller, “Dynamic Preamble Subset Allocation for RAN Slicing in 5G Networks”, IEEE Access, January 2018.
  • Raja Al-Kiyumi, Chuan Heng Foh, Serdar Vural, Periklis Chatzimisios, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Fuzzy Logic-based Routing Algorithm for Lifetime Enhancement in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, January 2018.
  • Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Gerry Foster, Rahim Tafazolli, “Success Probability of Multiple-Preamble Based Single-Attempt Random Access to Mobile Networks”, IEEE Communications Letter, April 2017.
  • Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, Rahim Tafazolli, “Caching Transient Data in Internet Content Routers”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol 25, no 2, April 2017.
  • L. Zhang, A. Ijaz, M. D. M. Grau, A. Mohamed, Serdar Vural, A. U. Quddus, M. A. Imran, C. H. Foh, R. Tafazolli, “Enabling Massive IoT in 5G and Beyond Systems: PHY Radio Frame Design Considerations”, IEEE Access, June 2016, vol. 4, pp 3322-3339.
  • Ye Miao, Serdar Vural, Zhili Sun, Ning Wang, “A Unified Solution for Gateway and In-network Traffic Load Balancing in Multihop Data Collection Scenarios”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 10, no 3, pp 1251-1262, October 2015.
  • Virginia Pilloni, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Serdar Vural, Luigi Atzori, and Rahim Tafazolli, ‘TAN: A Distributed Algorithm for Dynamic Task Assignment in WSNs’, IEEE Sensors, vol. 14, no 4, 2014.
  • Yichao Jin, Serdar Vural, Alexander Gluhak, Klaus Moessner, “Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-hop Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks with Low Mobility”, MDPI Sensors, Volume 13, No 10, Pages 13999-14028, October 2013.
  • Tae-Suk Kim, Ioannis Broustis, Serdar Vural, Dimitris Syrivelis, Shailendra Singh, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Thomas F. La Porta, “Realizing the Benefits of Wireless Network Coding in Multirate Settings”, IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 46-49, June 2013.
  • Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, and Rahim Tafazolli, 'Transmission Range Assignment for Backbone Connectivity in Clustered Wireless Networks', IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Volume 2, No 1, February 2013.
  • Serdar Vural, Dali Wei, and Klaus Moessner, “Survey of Experimental Evaluation Studies for Wireless Mesh Network Deployments in Urban Areas Towards Ubiquitous Internet”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume 15, No 1, Pages 223-239, February 2012.
  • Dali Wei, Yichao Jin, Serdar Vural, Klaus Moessner, and Rahim Tafazolli, “An Energy-efficient Clustering Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 10, Number 11, Pages 3973-3983, November 2011.
  • Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eylem Ekici, Sangjoon Park, Kangwoo Park, and Youngbag Moon, “SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 9, Number 8, Pages 1072-1088, August 2010.
  • Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “On Multihop Distances in Wireless Sensor Networks with Random Node Locations”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 9, Number 4, Pages 540-552, April 2010.
  • Eylem Ekici, Serdar Vural, Janise McNair, and Dawood Al-Abri, “Secure Probabilistic Location Verification in Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks”, Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 6, Number 2, Pages 195-209, April 2008.
  • Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Probability Distribution of Multihop Distance in Linear Sensor Networks”, Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 51, Number 13, Pages 3727-3749, September 2007.
  • Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Hop-Distance Based Addressing and Routing for Dense Sensor Networks without Location Information”, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Science, Volume 5, Number 4, Pages 486-503, May 2007.

Conference publications

  • Serdar Vural, Roberto Minerva; Giuseppe Carella; Ahmed Medhat; Lorenzo Tomasini; Simone Pizzimenti; Bjoern Riemer; Umberto Stravato , "Performance Measurements of Network Service Deployment on a Federated and Orchestrated Virtualisation Platform for 5G Experimentation", to appear in proceedings of IEEE NFV-SDN, November 2018, Verona, Italy.
  • Jose Costa-Requena, Aapo Poutanen, Shourov Kumar Roy, Serdar Vural, George Kamel, and Chris Clark, “5GaaS with SDN based UPF for mobile backhaul network slicing”, IEEE EUCNC, July 2018.
  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Performance Evaluation of a Virtualized 5G Core Network in Indoor Environments”, IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, June 2018.
  • Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Gerard Foster, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Success Probability of Multiple-Preamble-Based Single-Attempt Random Access to Mobile Networks”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol 21, no 8, Aug. 2017.
  • David Lake, Gerry Foster, Serdar Vural, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Bong-Hwan Oh, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Virtualising and orchestrating a 5G evolved packet core network”, IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), July 2017.
  • Raja Al-Kiyumi, Chuan Heng Foh, Serdar Vural, and Rahim Tafazolli, “A Control-theoretic approach for Duty Cycle Adaptation in dynamic wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2017
  • Raja Al-Kiyumi, Serdar Vural, Chuan Heng Foh, Rahim Tafazolli, “A Distributed Sleep Mechanism for Energy-Efficiency in Non-Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Networks”, IEEE 20th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), September 2015, Guildford, United Kingdom.
  • Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, Chonggang Wang, Lijun Dong, and Rahim Tafazolli, “In-network Caching of Internet of Things Data”, IEEE ICC, June 2014, Sydney, Australia.
  • Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Asynchronous Clustering of Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE ICC, June 2014, Sydney, Australia.
  • Virginia Pilloni, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Serdar Vural, Luigi Atzori, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Cooperative Task Assignment for Distributed Deployment of Applications in WSNs”, IEEE ICC, June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Yichao Jin Y, Serdar Vural, Alexander Gluhak, Klaus Moessner, Dali Wei. “A distributed energy-efficient re-clustering solution for wireless sensor networks”, IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Tae-Suk Kim, Serdar Vural, Ioannis Broustis, Dimitris Syrivelis, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Thomas F. La Porta, “A Framework for Joint Network Coding and Transmission Rate Control in Wireless Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2010, San Diego, CA, USA. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
  • Serdar Vural, Lap Kong Law, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Michalis Faloutsos, “The Uplink Capacity of Hybrid Cellular Ad hoc Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE SECON, June 2010, Boston, MA, USA, Best Paper Award.
  • Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Analysis of Hop-Distance Relationship in Spatially Random Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Mobihoc 2005, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. (Acceptance rate: 14%) (In the top 7% of all papers)
  • Emad Felemban, Chang-Gun Lee, Eylem Ekici, Ryan Boder, and Serdar Vural, “Probabilistic QoS Guarantee in Reliability and Timeliness Domains in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, March 2005, Miami, FL, USA (Acceptance rate: 17%)
  • Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Wave Addressing for Dense Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications (SANPA), August 2004, pp. 56-66, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Tan Apaydin, Serdar Vural, and Prasun Sinha, “On Improving Data Accessibility in Storage Based Sensor Networks”, IEEE MASS, October 2007, Pisa, Italy.

Book Chapters

  • Serdar Vural, Yuan Tian, and Eylem Ekici, “QoS-Based Communication Protocols in Sensor Networks”, in Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, ed: Azzedine Boukerche, Wiley & Sons, 2006.