Research

Physical, medium access, and networking layers, and the cross-layer aspects of wireless communications systems and networks; radio access network (RAN) architectures; relay/multihop/mesh networks; cooperative communications; radio resource management; cognitive radio, spectrum, opportunistic spectrum access; interference modeling.

Application

Personal; mobile; cellular; wireless communication systems and networks (including LTE-advanced; 4G, beyond-4G).

Activities

• Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (2010)
• Carleton University Graduate Students’ Association Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching (2010)
• Carleton University Research Achievement Award (2009)
• General Co-Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) (2010-Fall)
• Steering Committee Member of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
• Former Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications
• Funded projects with Huawei, RIM, Samsung, and CRC (Communications Research Centre Canada)
• Involved in the organization of 100+ conferences
• 20+ tutorials in world’s leading international conferences
• Adjunct professor at King Saud University Advanced Technology Research Center (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Journal Articles

S. S. Szyszkowicz and H. Yanikomeroglu, “Limit theorem on the sum of identically distributed equally and positively correlated joint lognormals”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications (accepted in May 2009).

A. Bin Sediq and H. Yanikomeroglu, “Performance analysis of soft-bit maximal ratio combining in cooperative relay networks”, to appear in IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications (accepted in May 2009).

M. Salem, A. Adinoyi, M. Rahman, H. Yanikomeroglu, D. Falconer, Y.-D. Kim, E. Kim, and Y.-C. Cheong, “An overview of radio resource management in relay-enhanced OFDMA-based networks”, to appear in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2009.

M. H. Ahmed and H. Yanikomeroglu, “Throughput fairness and efficiency of link adaptation techniques in wireless networks”, to appear in IET Communications, 2009.

M. G. Khoshkholgh, K. Navaie, and H. Yanikomeroglu, “On the impact of the primary network activity on the achievable capacity of spectrum sharing over fading channels”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2100-2111, April 2009.

F. A. Bokhari, H. Yanikomeroglu, W. K. Wong, and M. Rahman, “Cross-layer resource scheduling for multimedia traffic in the downlink of 4G wireless multicarrier networks”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2009, article ID 212783, 10 pages, 2009. doi: 10.1155/2009/212783.

Y. Fan, A. Adinoyi, J. S. Thompson, H. Yanikomeroglu, and V. Poor, “A simple distributed antenna processing scheme for cooperative diversity”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 626-629, March 2009.

M. Katoozian, K. Navaie, and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Utility-based adaptive radio resource allocation in OFDM wireless networks with traffic prioritization”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 66-71, January 2009.

M. G. Khoshkholgh, K. Navaie, and H. Yanikomeroglu, “Impact of the secondary service transmit power constraint on the achievable capacity of spectrum sharing in Rayleigh fading environment”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 865-867, December 2008.

F. Atay Onat, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, and J. S. Thompson, “Asymptotic BER analysis of threshold digital relaying schemes in cooperative wireless systems”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 4938-4947, December 2008.

F. Atay Onat, A. Adinoyi, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, J. S. Thompson, and I. D. Marsland, “Threshold selection for SNR-based selective digital relaying in cooperative wireless networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 4226-4237, November 2008.

M. Hossam Ahmed, I. Syed, and H. Yanikomeroglu, “On the performance of TDMA-based multihop fixed cellular networks with respect to available frequency channels”,  IET Communications, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 1196-1204, October 2008, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com:20070490.

F. Atay Onat, I. Stojmenovic, and H. Yanikomeroglu, “Generating random graphs for the simulation of wireless ad hoc, actuator, sensor, and internet networks”, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), no. 4, pp. 597-615, October 2008, DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2008.04.011.