Dr Serdar Vural

Pronouns: He/him/his

Senior Lecturer in Satellite Communications

PhD

serdar.vural@surrey.ac.uk

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Academic and research departments

Institute for Communication Systems, ��ý Space Institute.

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Biography

Dr. Serdar Vural received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in July 2003 at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye. He later received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December 2007 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is currently affiliated with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at ��ý. He works at the Institute for Communication System (ICS) and ��ý Space Institute (SSI). He contributes to both research and teaching in satellite communications and 5G/6G mobile communication networks.

Since January 2010, Dr. Vural contributed to various UK and EU research projects at ��ý, on a wide range of topics, including wireless sensor and ad hoc networks, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualisation (NFV), mobile network orchestration, and communication system integrations.

University roles and responsibilities

Carrying out research and education activities in ��ý Space Institute and Institute for Communication Systems
Research and development in satellite networking, non-terrestrial network integrations with 6G
Architecting the software-defined switching network infrastructure for ��ý's 5G/6G network
Developing software for 5G/6G software defined networking controllers
Network orchestration software development for ��ý's 5G/6G software defined networking infrastructure
Student supervision for MSc and PhD students at the School of CSEE

Research

Research interests

Dr. Serdar Vural works specifically on software-defined networks (SDN) in the context of satellite networks, IP networks and 5G/6G mobile networks. His research focuses on network management and orchestration, service delivery enhancement, and terrestrial and non-terrestrial network integrations. Dr. Vural develops and manages the SDN infrastructure of ��ý's campus-wide mobile network, connecting its radio network to its virtualised 5G core software. He also focuses on SDN based management of traffic flows in integrated satellite-mobile networks for coverage extension and service reliability assurance.

Supervision

Postgraduate research supervision

Dr. Vural supervises MSc and PhD projects on software-defined networking with applications in 5G/6G mobile networks and satellite communications.

Open PhD studentship:

Multi-agent AI for software-defined traffic control in satellite networks

Teaching

My teaching at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is centred at mobile network management systems and satellite networks.

I lead the laboratory assignments for the EEEM087 Network Planning and Management course, in design and development of the lab assignment, working with the test bed team at ��ý's 6G Innovation Centre. This involves operations with software-defined networking, radio base band unit, and 5G core network, and provides students with an overall understanding of the management aspects of and end-to-end mobile network from a practical point of view.

I am also working on course curriculum preparation for satellite communication teaching offerings at ��ý Space Institute. This covers a range of topics, including satellite radio link aspects and satellite communication topics for next generation integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

Sustainable development goals

My research interests are related to the following:

Publications

Additional publications

Journal publications

Samuel Manam, Klaus Moessner, Serdar Vural, "Deadline-Constrained Cost Minimisation for Cloud Computing Environments", IEEE Access 11: 38514-38522, 2023.
Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, and Ning Wang, "A Lightweight Scheme of Active-Port-Aware Monitoring in Software-Defined Networks", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 18(3): 2888-2901, 2021.
Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Priority-based Flow Control for Dynamic and Reliable Flow Management in SDN”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, November 2018.
Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Paul Bucknell, Gerard Foster, Rahim Tafazolli, and Julien Muller, “Dynamic Preamble Subset Allocation for RAN Slicing in 5G Networks”, IEEE Access, January 2018.
Raja Al-Kiyumi, Chuan Heng Foh, Serdar Vural, Periklis Chatzimisios, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Fuzzy Logic-based Routing Algorithm for Lifetime Enhancement in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, January 2018.
Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Gerry Foster, Rahim Tafazolli, “Success Probability of Multiple-Preamble Based Single-Attempt Random Access to Mobile Networks”, IEEE Communications Letter, April 2017.
Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, Rahim Tafazolli, “Caching Transient Data in Internet Content Routers”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol 25, no 2, April 2017.
L. Zhang, A. Ijaz, M. D. M. Grau, A. Mohamed, Serdar Vural, A. U. Quddus, M. A. Imran, C. H. Foh, R. Tafazolli, “Enabling Massive IoT in 5G and Beyond Systems: PHY Radio Frame Design Considerations”, IEEE Access, June 2016, vol. 4, pp 3322-3339.
Ye Miao, Serdar Vural, Zhili Sun, Ning Wang, “A Unified Solution for Gateway and In-network Traffic Load Balancing in Multihop Data Collection Scenarios”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 10, no 3, pp 1251-1262, October 2015.
Virginia Pilloni, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Serdar Vural, Luigi Atzori, and Rahim Tafazolli, ‘TAN: A Distributed Algorithm for Dynamic Task Assignment in WSNs’, IEEE Sensors, vol. 14, no 4, 2014.
Yichao Jin, Serdar Vural, Alexander Gluhak, Klaus Moessner, “Dynamic Task Allocation in Multi-hop Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks with Low Mobility”, MDPI Sensors, Volume 13, No 10, Pages 13999-14028, October 2013.
Tae-Suk Kim, Ioannis Broustis, Serdar Vural, Dimitris Syrivelis, Shailendra Singh, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Thomas F. La Porta, “Realizing the Benefits of Wireless Network Coding in Multirate Settings”, IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 46-49, June 2013.
Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, and Rahim Tafazolli, 'Transmission Range Assignment for Backbone Connectivity in Clustered Wireless Networks', IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Volume 2, No 1, February 2013.
Serdar Vural, Dali Wei, and Klaus Moessner, “Survey of Experimental Evaluation Studies for Wireless Mesh Network Deployments in Urban Areas Towards Ubiquitous Internet”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume 15, No 1, Pages 223-239, February 2012.
Dali Wei, Yichao Jin, Serdar Vural, Klaus Moessner, and Rahim Tafazolli, “An Energy-efficient Clustering Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 10, Number 11, Pages 3973-3983, November 2011.
Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eylem Ekici, Sangjoon Park, Kangwoo Park, and Youngbag Moon, “SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 9, Number 8, Pages 1072-1088, August 2010.
Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “On Multihop Distances in Wireless Sensor Networks with Random Node Locations”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 9, Number 4, Pages 540-552, April 2010.
Eylem Ekici, Serdar Vural, Janise McNair, and Dawood Al-Abri, “Secure Probabilistic Location Verification in Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks”, Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 6, Number 2, Pages 195-209, April 2008.
Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Probability Distribution of Multihop Distance in Linear Sensor Networks”, Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, Volume 51, Number 13, Pages 3727-3749, September 2007.
Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Hop-Distance Based Addressing and Routing for Dense Sensor Networks without Location Information”, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Science, Volume 5, Number 4, Pages 486-503, May 2007.

Conference publications

Esmaeil Amiri, Ning Wang, Serdar Vural, Rahim Tafazolli, "Dynamic Anchor Point Selection in Software Defined Distributed Mobility Management", ISCC 2022.
Esmaeil Amiri, Ning Wang, Serdar Vural, and Rahim Tafazolli, "HSD-DMM: Hierarchical Software Defined Distributed Mobility Management", NCA 2021.
Ting Yang, Serdar Vural, Peng Qian, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, "Achieving Robust Performance for Traffic Classification Using Ensemble Learning in SDN Networks", ICC 2021.
Koteswararao Kondepu, Francesco Giannone, Serdar Vural, Björn Riemer, Piero Castoldi, and Luca Valcarenghi, "Experimental Demonstration of 5G Virtual EPC Recovery in Federated Testbeds", IM 2019.
Serdar Vural, Roberto Minerva, Giuseppe Carella, Ahmed Medhat, Lorenzo Tomasini, Simone Pizzimenti, Bjoern Riemer, and Umberto Stravato, "Performance Measurements of Network Service Deployment on a Federated and Orchestrated Virtualisation Platform for 5G Experimentation", IEEE NFV-SDN, November 2018, Verona, Italy.
Jose Costa-Requena, Aapo Poutanen, Shourov Kumar Roy, Serdar Vural, George Kamel, and Chris Clark, “5GaaS with SDN based UPF for mobile backhaul network slicing”, IEEE EUCNC, July 2018.
Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Performance Evaluation of a Virtualized 5G Core Network in Indoor Environments”, IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, June 2018.
Serdar Vural, Ning Wang, Gerard Foster, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Success Probability of Multiple-Preamble-Based Single-Attempt Random Access to Mobile Networks”, , vol 21, , Aug. 2017.
David Lake, Gerry Foster, Serdar Vural, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Bong-Hwan Oh, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Virtualising and orchestrating a 5G evolved packet core network”, IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), July 2017.
Raja Al-Kiyumi, Chuan Heng Foh, Serdar Vural, and Rahim Tafazolli, “A Control-theoretic approach for Duty Cycle Adaptation in dynamic wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2017
Raja Al-Kiyumi, Serdar Vural, Chuan Heng Foh, Rahim Tafazolli, “A Distributed Sleep Mechanism for Energy-Efficiency in Non-Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Networks”, IEEE 20th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), September 2015, Guildford, United Kingdom.
Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, Chonggang Wang, Lijun Dong, and Rahim Tafazolli, “In-network Caching of Internet of Things Data”, IEEE ICC, June 2014, Sydney, Australia.
Serdar Vural, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Asynchronous Clustering of Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE ICC, June 2014, Sydney, Australia.
Virginia Pilloni, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, Serdar Vural, Luigi Atzori, and Rahim Tafazolli, “Cooperative Task Assignment for Distributed Deployment of Applications in WSNs”, IEEE ICC, June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
Yichao Jin Y, Serdar Vural, Alexander Gluhak, Klaus Moessner, Dali Wei. “A distributed energy-efficient re-clustering solution for wireless sensor networks”, IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Tae-Suk Kim, Serdar Vural, Ioannis Broustis, Dimitris Syrivelis, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Thomas F. La Porta, “A Framework for Joint Network Coding and Transmission Rate Control in Wireless Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2010, San Diego, CA, USA. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
Serdar Vural, Lap Kong Law, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, and Michalis Faloutsos, “The Uplink Capacity of Hybrid Cellular Ad hoc Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE SECON, June 2010, Boston, MA, USA, Best Paper Award.
Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Analysis of Hop-Distance Relationship in Spatially Random Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Mobihoc 2005, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. (Acceptance rate: 14%) (In the top 7% of all papers)
Emad Felemban, Chang-Gun Lee, Eylem Ekici, Ryan Boder, and Serdar Vural, “Probabilistic QoS Guarantee in Reliability and Timeliness Domains in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, March 2005, Miami, FL, USA (Acceptance rate: 17%)
Serdar Vural and Eylem Ekici, “Wave Addressing for Dense Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications (SANPA), August 2004, pp. 56-66, Boston, MA, USA.
Tan Apaydin, Serdar Vural, and Prasun Sinha, “On Improving Data Accessibility in Storage Based Sensor Networks”, IEEE MASS, October 2007, Pisa, Italy.

Technical reports

“Technical Report on 5G Network Architecture and Security”, DCMS Phase 1 Testbeds and Trials Programme”, UK5G Innovation Network, 18 December 2018, available at:

Book Chapters

Serdar Vural, Yuan Tian, and Eylem Ekici, “QoS-Based Communication Protocols in Sensor Networks”, in Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, ed: Azzedine Boukerche, Wiley & Sons, 2006.

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