Director

Dr. Arslan has received his BS degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 1992; MS and PhD. degrees in 1994 and 1998 from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Tx, USA. From January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of Ericsson Inc., NC, USA, where he was involved with several project related to 2G and 3G wireless communication systems.  Between August 2002 and December 2013, he was with the Electrical Engineering Dept. of University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. Since December 2013, he has been with the Istanbul Medipol University. In addition, he has worked as part time consultant for various companies and institutions including Anritsu Company, Savronik Inc., and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

Dr. Arslan’s research interests are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical and medium access layers, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and Quality of Service (QoS) control. He is interested in many forms of wireless technologies including cellular radio, wireless PAN/LAN/MANs, fixed wireless access, aeronautical networks, underwater networks, in-vivo networks, and wireless sensors networks. The current research interests are on physical layer security, signal intelligence, cognitive radio, small cells, powerline communications, smart grid, UWB, multi-carrier wireless technologies, dynamic spectrum access, co-existence issues on heterogeneous networks, aeronautical (High Altitude Platform) communications, in-vivo channel modeling and system design, and underwater acoustic communications. He has served as technical program committee chair, technical program committee member, session and symposium organizer, and workshop chair in several IEEE conferences. He is currently a member of the editorial board for “IEEE Transactions on Communications’’, “Physical Communication Journal” by Elsevier”, and “IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.  He has also served eight years as a member of the editorial board for “Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Journal” by Wiley.