OMUR OZEL 

Ph.D. Student 

University of Maryland College Park 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Advisor: Prof. Sennur Ulukus

Biography

Omur Ozel received the B.Sc. and the M.S. degrees with honors in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in June 2007 and July 2009, respectively. Since August 2009, he has been a graduate research assistant at the University of Maryland College Park, working towards Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. His research focuses on information theoretic and scheduling aspects of energy harvesting communication systems. He is a  graduate student member of IEEE Information Theory Society.

Publications

Journal 

1) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Wiretap Channels: Implications of the More Capable Condition and Cyclic Shift Symmetry, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, submitted October 2011. (pdf)

2) O. Ozel, J. Yang and S. Ulukus, Optimal Transmission Schemes for Parallel and Fading Broadcast Channels with an Energy Harvesting Rechargeable Transmitter, Elsevier Computer Communications, submitted September 2011.

3) O. Ozel, J. Yang and S. Ulukus, Optimal Broadcast Scheduling for an Energy Harvesting Rechargeable Transmitter with a Finite Capacity Battery, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, submitted May 2011.

4) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Achieving AWGN Capacity Under Stochastic Energy Harvesting, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, submitted December 2010.

5) J. Yang, O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Broadcasting with an Energy Harvesting Rechargeable Transmitter, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, to appear. (pdf)

6) O. Ozel, K. Tutuncuoglu, J. Yang, S. Ulukus and A. Yener, Transmission with Energy Harvesting Nodes in Fading Wireless Channels: Optimal Policies, IEEE Jour. on Selected Areas in Communications, 29(8):1732-1743, September 2011. (pdf)

Conference

1) O. Ozel, J. Yang and S. Ulukus, Optimal Scheduling over Fading Broadcast Channels with an Energy Harvesting Transmitter, The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011. (Best Student Paper Award Finalist) (pdf)

2) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, AWGN Channel under Time-Varying Amplitude Constraints with Causal Information at the Transmitter, 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2011. (pdf)

3) O. Ozel, J. Yang and S. Ulukus, Optimal Transmission Policies over Vector Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Energy Harvesting Transmitters, 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2011. (pdf) 

4) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Rate-Equivocation Region of Cyclic Shift Symmetric Wiretap Channels, 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2011. (pdf)

5) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Wiretap Channels: Roles of Rate Splitting and Channel Prefixing, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2011. (pdf)

6) J. Yang, O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Optimal Packet Scheduling in a Broadcast Channel with an Energy Harvesting Transmitter, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011. (pdf)

7) O. Ozel, J. Yang and S. Ulukus, Broadcasting with a Battery Limited Energy Harvesting Rechargeable Transmitter, 9th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Princeton, NJ, May 2011. (pdf)

8) O. Ozel, K. Tutuncuoglu, J. Yang, S. Ulukus and A. Yener, Resource Management for Fading Wireless Channels with Energy Harvesting Nodes, 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) - Mini Conference, Shanghai, China, April 2011. (pdf)

9) O. Ozel, K. Tutuncuoglu, J. Yang, S. Ulukus and A. Yener, Adaptive Transmission Policies for Energy Harvesting Nodes in Fading Channels, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2011. (pdf)

10) O. Ozel and S. Ulukus, Information-Theoretic Analysis of an Energy Harvesting Communication System, International Workshop on Green Wireless (W-GREEN) at IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010. (pdf) 

Contact

2454 AVW Building University of Maryland 

College Park MD 20742 USA 
e-mail : omur at umd dot edu