Tevfik Yücek

Office: ENB-363, (813) 974 3939
e-mail: yucek@eng.usf.edu
Web-site: http://www.eng.usf.edu/~yucek

Educational/Professional Background

Research Interests

Signal processing for adaptive multicarrier communications and cognitive radio.

Teaching Experience

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, ICI Cancellation Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems, IEICE Transactions on Communications, volume: E88-B, number: 5, May 2005.
  2. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation with Successive Cancellation in Uplink OFDMA Systems (pdf copy), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in print, 2006.
  3. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, MMSE Noise Plus Interference Power Estimation in Adaptive OFDM Systems (pdf copy), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in print, 2007.
  4. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Dispersion and Delay Spread Estimation for Adaptive OFDM Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in print, 2007.
  5. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, OFDM Signal Identification and Transmission Parameter Estimation for Cognitive Radio Applications, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2007.
  6. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio using Partial Match Filtering, submitted to EURASIP Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007.
  7. H. Mahmoud, T. Yücek and H. Arslan, OFDM for Cognitive Radio: Merits and Challenges, submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. 2007
  8. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, A Survey of Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Applications, submitted to (2nd review) IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2007.

Patents

  1. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Covert OFDM Transmission Using Cyclic Prefix, U.S. Patent Application, US2006/0050626 A1 (USF Ref. No. 04A053PR), March 9, 2006.
  2. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Noise Plus Interference Power Estimation Method for OFDM Systems, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, USF Ref. No. 05A011PR, July 1, 2005.
  3. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, A Method for Spectrum Sensing via Radio Identification, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, USF Ref. No. 07A051PR May 4, 2007.
  4. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, A Method for OFDM Signal Identification and OFDM Parameter Estimation, U.S. Provisional Patent Application, USF Ref. No. 07B076PR July 12, 2007.

Book Chapters

  1. H. Arslan and T. Yücek, Adaptation of Wireless Mobile Multi-carrier Systems, in Adaptation Techniques in Wireless Multimedia Networks, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1594548838, May 2006.
  2. H. Arslan and H. Mahmoud T. Yücek, OFDM for Cognitive Radio: Merits and Challenges, to appear in Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless Systems, Springer, 2007.
  3. H. Arslan and T. Yücek, Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications, to appear in Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless Systems,, Springer, 2007.

Conference Papers

  1. H. Arslan and T. Yücek, Estimation of Frequency Selectivity for OFDM Based New Generation Wireless Communication Systems, World Wireless Congress, San Francisco, May 27 - 30 2003.
  2. H. Arslan and T. Yücek, Delay Spread Estimation for Wireless Communication Systems, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, pages: 282-287, Antalya, TURKEY, June 30 - July 3 2003.
  3. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, ICI Cancellation Based Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, pages: 111-114, Boston, MA, August 10-13, 2003.
  4. S. B. Reddy, T. Yücek and H. Arslan, An Efficient Blind Modulation Detection Algorithm for Adaptive OFDM Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, pages: 1895-1899, Orlando, FL, October 6-9, 2003.
  5. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, A Novel Sub-optimum Maximum-Likelihood Modulation Classification Algorithm for Adaptive OFDM Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 21-25, 2004.
  6. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, On the Mitigation of Inter-carrier Interference for OFDM Systems (Abstract), IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, Clearwater, FL, April 15-16, 2004.
  7. T. Yücek and M. K. Nezami, Joint Channel and Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM Systems, IEEE Military Communications Conference, Monterey, CA, October 31 - November 3, 2004.
  8. T. Yücek, R. A. Tannious and H. Arslan, Doppler Spread Estimation for Wireless OFDM Systems, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, April, 2005.
  9. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Noise Plus Interference Power Estimation in Adaptive OFDM Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, May 29 - June 1, 2005.
  10. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Delay Spread and Time Dispersion Estimation for Adaptive OFDM Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2006.
  11. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, MMSE Noise Power and SNR Estimation for OFDM Systems, IEEE Sarnoff Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
  12. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation with Successive Cancellation in Uplink OFDMA Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 2006.
  13. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Spectrum Characterization for Opportunistic Cognitive Radio Systems, IEEE Military Communications Conference, Washington, DC, October 2006.
  14. F. E. Retnasothie, M. K. Ozdemir, T. Yücek, Joseph Zhang, Hasari Celebi, and Ranesh Muththaiah, Wireless IPTV over WiMAX: Challenges and Applications, IEEE Wamicon (invited paper), Clearwater, FL, December 2006.
  15. T. Yücek, M. K. Ozdemir, H. Arslan, and F. E. Retnasothie, A Comparative Study of Initial Downlink Channel Estimation Algorithms for Mobile WiMAX, IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2007.
  16. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, OFDM Signal Identification and Transmission Parameter Estimation for Cognitive Radio Applications, accepted for publication IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Washington, D.C., November 2007.
  17. T. Yücek and H. Arslan, Feature Suppression for Physical-layer Security in OFDM Systems, accepted for publication IEEE Military Communications (Milcom), Orlando, FL, October 2007.

Thesis/Dissertation

  1. T. Yücek, Self-interference Handling in OFDM Based Wireless Communication Systems, M.S. Thesis, Nov. 2003, (slides).
  2. T. Yücek, Channel, Spectrum and Waveform Awareness in OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, July 2007.