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Journal Published/in Print

  1. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, The General Gaussian Multiple Access and Two-Way Wire-Tap Channels: Achievable Rates and Cooperative Jamming, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, June 2008, 54(6), pp. 2735 - 2751.

  2. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Relay Assisted F/TDMA Ad Hoc Networks: Node Classification, Power Allocation and Relaying Strategies, IEEE Transactions on Communications, June 2008, 56(6), pp. 937 - 947.

  3. Min Chen, Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Distributed Power Allocation Strategies for Parallel Relay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, February 2008, 7(2), pp. 552 - 561.

  4. Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Power Controlled CDMA Cell Sectorization with Multiuser Detection: A Comprehensive Analysis of Uplink and Downlink, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2007, Article ID 62379, 13 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/62379.

  5. Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Downlink Throughput Maximization for Interference Limited Multiuser Systems: TDMA versus CDMA, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2007, 6(7), pp. 2454 - 2463.

  6. Girish Khandelwal, Kyounghwan Lee, Aylin Yener, and Semih Serbetli, ASAP: A MAC Protocol for Dense and Time-Constrained RFID Systems, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 2007, Article ID 18730, 13 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/18730.

  7. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, MMSE Transmitter Design for Correlated MIMO Systems with Imperfect Channel Estimates: Power Allocation Trade-offs, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, August 2006, 5(8), pp. 2295 - 2304.

  8. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, MIMO-CDMA Systems: Signature and Beamformer Design with Various Levels of Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 2006, 54(7), pp. 2758 - 2772.

  9. Jaesheung Shin, Kyounghwan Lee, Aylin Yener, and Thomas F. La Porta, On Demand Diversity Wireless Relay Networks, ACM Transactions on Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET), Special Issue On Soft Radio-Enabled Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, August 2006, 11(4), pp. 593 - 611.

  10. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Time Slotted Multiuser MIMO Systems: Beamforming and Scheduling Strategies, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Multiuser MIMO Networks, December 2004, Volume 2004, pp. 286-296.

  11. Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, Iterative Transmitter and Receiver Optimization for CDMA Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2004, 3(6), pp. 1879-1884.

  12. Onder Filiz and Aylin Yener, Rank Constrained Temporal-Spatial Matrix Filters for CDMA Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2004, 3(6), pp. 1974-1979.

  13. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Transceiver Optimization for Multiuser MIMO Systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, January 2004, 52(1), pp. 214-226.

  14. Rajnish Sinha, Aylin Yener and Roy D. Yates,  Noncoherent  Multiuser Communications: Multistage Detection and Selective Filtering,  EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Multiuser Detection and Blind Estimation, December 2002, EURASIP JASP 2002: 12, pp. 1415-1426.

  15. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus, Combined Multiuser Detection and Beamforming for CDMA Systems: Filter Structures, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, September 2002, 51(5), pp. 1087-1095.

  16. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus, CDMA Multiuser Detection: A Nonlinear Programming Approach, IEEE Transactions on Communications, June 2002, 50(6), pp. 1016-1024.

  17. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus,  Interference Management for CDMA Systems through Power Control, Multiuser Detection and Beamforming, IEEE Transactions on Communications, July 2001, 49(7), pp.1227-1239.

  18. Cem U. Saraydar and Aylin Yener,  Adaptive Cell Sectorization for CDMA Systems, IEEE JSAC Wireless Communications Series, June 2001, 19(6), pp. 1041-1051.

  19. Aylin Yener and Christopher Rose, Highly Mobile Users and Paging: optimal polling strategies, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, November 1998, 47(4), pp. 1251-1257.

  20. Aylin Yener and Christopher Rose,  Genetic Algorithms Applied to Cellular Call Admission Problem : Local Policies, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , February 1997, 46(1), pp. 72-79.

Journal in Review

  1. Jeff Andrews, Nihar Jindal, Martin Haenggi, Randy Berry, Syed Jafar, Dongning Guo, Sanjay Shakkottai, Robert Heath, Michael Neely, Steven Weber, Aylin Yener, Rethinking Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, in revision.

  2. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, The Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, revised March 2008.

  3. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, Resource Allocation for the Multi-Band Relay Channel: A Building Block for Hybrid Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, submitted January 2006, in revision.

Conference Published

  1. Xiang He and Aylin Yener, The Role of an Untrusted Relay in Secret Communication, to appear in the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'08, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

  2. Min Chen and Aylin Yener, Multiuser Two-Way Relaying for Interference Limited Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'08, Beijing, China, May 2008.

  3. Lauren Huie, Xiang He and Aylin Yener, Joint Power Scheduling and Estimator Design for Sensor Networks Across Parallel Channels, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'08, Beijing, China, May 2008

  4. Ertugrul N. Ciftcioglu, Aylin Yener and Randall Berry, Stability of Bi-Directional Cooperative Relay Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW'08, Porto, Portugal, May 2008.

  5. Xiang He and Aylin Yener, On the Energy Delay Trade-off of a Two-Way Relay Network, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'08, Princeton, NJ, March 2008.

  6. Min Chen and Aylin Yener, Interference Management for Multiuser Two-Way Relaying, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'08, Princeton, NJ, March 2008.

  7. Zhenlei Shen, Yan Li, Shalinee Kishore and Aylin Yener, Distributed and Collaborative Primary Signal Feature Estimation for Cognitive Radios under Communication Constraints, Asilomar'07, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2007.

  8. Xiang He and Aylin Yener, On the Equivocation Region of Relay Channels with Orthogonal Components, invited paper, in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar'07, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2007.

  9. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, Throughput Enhancing Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Strategies for Cognitive Radios, invited paper, in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar'07, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2007.

  10. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, Secrecy Sum-Rates for the Multiple-Access Wire-Tap Channel with Ergodic Block Fading, in Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007.

  11. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, Achievable Rates for Two-Way Wire-Tap Channels, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'07, June 24-29 2007, Nice, France.

  12. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, The Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel: Wireless Secrecy and Cooperative Jamming, in Proceedings of the Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA'07, January 2007, San Diego, CA.

  13. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, Outage Performance of Cognitive Wireless Relay Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Globecom'06, November 2006, San Francisco, CA.

  14. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, Spectrum-Sensing Opportunistic Wireless Relay Networks: Outage and Diversity Performance, in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar'06, October 2006, Pacific Grove, CA.

  15. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, Achievable Rates for the General Gaussian Multiple AccessWire-Tap Channel with Collective Secrecy, in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2006, Monticello, IL.

  16. Min Chen, Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Efficient Scheduling for Delay Constrained CDMA Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE 64th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC'06, Montreal, Canada, September 2006.

  17. Min Chen, Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Efficient Scheduling for Delay Constrained Multi-Rate CDMA Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA'06, Manaus, Brazil, August 2006.

  18. Ender Tekin and Aylin Yener, The Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel with Collective Secrecy Constraints, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'06, Seattle, WA. July 2006.

  19. Girish Khandelwal, Aylin Yener and Min Chen, OPT: Optimal Protocol Tree for Efficient Tag Identification in Dense RFID Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

  20. Girish Khandelwal, Aylin Yener, Kyounghwan Lee and Semih Serbetli, ASAP: A MAC Protocol for Dense and Time Constrained RFID Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

  21. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Power Allocation and Hybrid Relaying Strategies for F/TDMA Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

  22. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, Iterative Power Allocation Algorithms for Amplify/Estimate/Compress-and-Forward Multi-Band Relay Channels, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'06, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.

  23. Min Chen, Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Distributed Power Allocation for Parallel Relay Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Globecom'05, St.Louis, MO, November 2005. 

  24. Ender Tekin, Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, On Secure Signaling for the Gaussian Multiple Access Wire-Tap Channel, in Proceedings of the 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pasific Grove, CA, November 2005.

  25. Kyounghwan Lee and Aylin Yener, On the Achievable Rate of Three-Node Cognitive Hybrid Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing, WirelessCom'05, Maui, Hawaii, June 2005.

  26. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Optimum Power Allocation for Relay Assisted F/TDMA Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing, WirelessCom'05, Maui, Hawaii, June 2005.

  27. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Transmission Strategies for Correlated MIMO Links with Imperfect Channel Estimates, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'05, Seoul, South Korea, May 2005.

  28. Kyounghwan  Lee and Aylin Yener, On Resource Allocation for the Multi-band Relay Channel, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'05, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

  29. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Optimum Power Allocation for Multiuser Relay Networks, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'05, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

  30. Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Downlink Throughput Maximization: TDMA vs CDMA, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'05, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

  31. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Beamforming and Scheduling Strategies for Time Slotted Multiuser MIMO Systems , in Proceedings of the 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pasific Grove, CA, November 2004.

  32. Aylin Yener and Shalinee Kishore, Distributed Power Control and Routing for Clustered CDMA Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC'04 Fall, Los Angeles, CA, September 2004.

  33. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Signature Sequence Selection for CDMA Systems with Multiple Receiver Antennas, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'04, Paris, France, June 2004.

  34. Hao Zhu, Guohong Cao, Aylin Yener and Allen D. Mathias, EDCF-DM: A Novel Enhanced Distributed Coordination Function for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'04, Paris, France, June 2004.

  35. Semih Serbetli, Sandeep Bethanabhotla and Aylin Yener, The Effect of Channel Estimation on Transceiver Design for MIMO Systems with QoS Constraints, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'04, Princeton, NJ, March 2004.

  36. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Signature and Beamformer Design for MIMO-CDMA with Various Levels of Feedback, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'04, Princeton, NJ, March 2004.

  37. Aylin Yener and Onder Filiz, Rank Constrained Temporal-Spatial Filters for CDMA Systems in Multipath Channels, in Proceedings of the Global Telecommunications Conference, Globecom'03, San Francisco, CA, November 2003.

  38. Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Further Results on Adaptive CDMA Cell Sectorization with Linear Multiuser Detection, in Proceedings of the 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pasific Grove, CA, November 2003.

  39. Changyoon Oh and Aylin Yener, Adaptive CDMA Cell Sectorization with Linear Multiuser Detection, in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC'03 Fall, Orlando, FL, October 2003.

  40. Onder Filiz and Aylin Yener, Rank Constrained Temporal-Spatial Filters for CDMA Systems with Base Station Antenna Arrays, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'03, Baltimore , MD, March 2003.

  41. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Signature and Beamformer Optimization for MIMO-CDMA Based on the Mean Squared Error Criterion, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'03, Baltimore , MD, March 2003.

  42. Semih Serbetli and Aylin Yener, Iterative Transceiver Optimization for Multiuser MIMO Systems, in Proceedings of the 40th Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 2002.

  43. Aylin Yener and Semih Serbetli, Transmitter Optimization for Multiuser MIMO Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wireless Communications, ISWC'02, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 2002 (Invited).

  44. Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, Iterative Transmitter and Receiver Optimization for Synchronous CDMA Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'02, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2002.

  45. Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, Iterative Joint Optimization of CDMA Signature Sequences and Receiver Filters, in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'02, Princeton, NJ, March 2002.

  46. Predrag Spasojevic and Aylin Yener, Constrained Slowest Descent Detectors for Multiuser CDMA Systems, in Proceedings of the  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'01, Washington D.C., June 2001.

  47. Predrag Spasojevic and Aylin Yener, Improved Soft Interference Cancellation for CDMA Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'01, Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

  48. Aylin Yener and Sennur Ulukus, On the Fading Channel Performance of Temporal-Spatial Filters for CDMA, in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC'01 Spring, Rhodes, Greece, May 2001.

  49. Aylin Yener,  Nonlinear Programming Based Detectors for Multiuser Systems,  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC'01, Las Vegas, NV, April 2001.

  50. Rajnish Sinha, Aylin Yener and Roy D. Yates, Constrained Detection for Noncoherent Nonlinear Multiuser Communications,   in Proceedings of the 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pasific Grove, CA, October 2000.

  51. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus,  Combined Temporal and Spatial Filter Structures for CDMA Systems ,   in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC '00 Fall, Boston, MA, September 2000.

  52. Aylin Yener and Roy D. Yates,  Acquisition Dependent Random Access for Connectionless CDMA Systems,  in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC '00, Chicago, IL, September 2000.

  53. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus, A Nonlinear Programming Approach to CDMA Multiuser Detection,   in Proceedings of the 33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pasific Grove, CA, October 1999.

  54. Cem U. Saraydar and Aylin Yener,   Capacity Enhancement for CDMA Systems Through Adaptive Cell Sectorization,  in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC' 99, New Orleans, LA, September 1999.

  55. Aylin Yener, Roy D. Yates and Sennur Ulukus,  Joint Power Control, Multiuser Detection and Beamforming for CDMA Systems,   in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC '99 Spring, Houston, TX, May 1999.

  56. Aylin Yener and Roy D. Yates,   Multiuser Access Capacity of Packet Switched CDMA Systems,  in Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC '99 Spring,  Houston, TX, May 1999 (Also in IRSS'00, Newark, NJ, March 2000, Invited).

  57. Aylin Yener and Roy D. Yates,  Multiuser Access Detection for CDMA Systems,  in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'98, Princeton, NJ, March 1998.

  58. Aylin Yener, Christopher Rose and Roy D. Yates,  Optimum Power Scheduling for CDMA Access Channels, in Proceedings of the Global Telecommunications Conference, Globecom'97, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997 (Also in INFORMS Spring'98 Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 1998, Invited).

  59. Aylin Yener and Christopher Rose, Paging Strategies for Highly Mobile Users, in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC'96, Atlanta, GA, April 1996.

  60. Aylin Yener and Christopher Rose,  Local Call Admission Policies for Cellular Networks Using Genetic Algorithms,  in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'95, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.

  61. Aylin Yener and Christopher Rose, Near Optimal Call Admission Policies for Cellular Networks Using Genetic Algorithms,  in Proceedings of Wireless'94, Calgary , July 1994.