Mesut TOKA
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronics Engineering
Gebze Technical University, Türkiye
Email: mtoka@gtu.edu.tr
Profiles: [Gebze Technical Univ.] [Linked in] [Google Scholar] [Researchgate]
Biography
Mesut Toka (Member, IEEE) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye, in 2011 and Nigde University (NU), Niğde, Turkey, in 2015, respectively. Afterwards, he got his Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering at Gebze Technical University (GTU), Türkiye, in 2021. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant at NU and GTU during his M.Sc. and Ph.D. period. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, from Aug. 2021 to Oct. 2023. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering at GTU. His research interests include cooperative communications, full-duplex communications, multiple access techniques, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and space-air-ground integrated networks.
News
The paper, "Performance Analysis of MRT/MRC in NOMA Full-Duplex Relay Networks with Residual Hardware Impairments," has been accepted by IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, April 2025. This is a joint work with Prof. Güneş Karabulut Kurt and Mr. Eray Güven at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Toka has become one of the Founding Members of IEEE Communications Society's Special Interest Group on AI Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (AITNTN) (2025). For more info, please check out websites: Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee and AITNTN.
The tutorial paper "A Tutorial on Non-Terrestrial Networks: Towards Global and Ubiquitous 6G Connectivity," has been accepted for publication in the Foundations and Trends in Networking, Jan 2025 [Invited Paper]
Professional Activities
Reviewer for Journals
IEEE Access, IEEE Trans. Commun., IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
IEEE Open J. Commun. Society, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Commun. Lett.
IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
IET Signal Process.
WCMC-Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
AEÜ-International Journal of Electronics and Communications
IJCS-International Journal of Communication Systems
ICT Express-Information and Communications Technology Express
Frontiers in Communications and Networks (Review Editor), Wireless Networks, Computer Networks
Reviewer for Conferences
2020 IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM 2020)
2021 IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC 2021)
2022 IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC 2022)
2022 IEEE Wireless. Commun. Netw. Conf. (WCNC 2022)
2023 IEEE Wireless. Commun. Netw. Conf. (WCNC 2023)
2023 IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC 2023)
2023 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2023 Spring)
2023 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)
2023 31th IEEE Conf. Signal Process. Commun. App. (SIU 2023), Technical Program Committee Member
2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC, Montreal, Canada), Signal Processing for Communications Technical Program Committee Member
2025 IEEE Wireless. Commun. Netw. Conf. (WCNC 2025)
2025 IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (Globecom, Taipei, Taiwan), Selected Areas in Communications: Satellite and Space Communications (SAC-SSC) Technical Program Committee Member