Browsing by Author "Tuna, Gürkan"

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Cognitive Radio Networks for Smart Grid Communications: Potential Applications, Protocols, and Research Challenges
(CRC Press, 2017) Κogias, DImitrios G.; Tuna, Gürkan; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
A smart grid (SG) is the next generation of power grid, where transmission, distribution, power generation, utilization, and management are fully upgraded to improve efficiency, agility, environmental friendliness, economy, security, and reliability [1-4]. It offers two-way communication between the base stations and power generation sites [2-5], and optimizes the overall system performance by taking the advantage of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [6-13], using smart sensor devices, and implementing renewable energy solutions. Since SG consists of many different applications with different communication and quality of service (QoS) requirements, it involves heterogeneous communication technologies based on a multitier communication infrastructure. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Communications Technologies for Smart Grid Applications: A Review of Advances and Challenges
(IGI Global, 2022) Tuna, Gürkan; Das, R.; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Smart grid is a modern power grid infrastructure for improved efficiency, reliability, and safety, with smooth integration of renewable and alternative energy sources, through automated control and modern communications technologies. The smart grid offers several advantages over traditional power grids such as reduced operational costs and opening new markets to utility providers, direct communication with customer premises through advanced metering infrastructure, self-healing in case of power drops or outage, providing security against several types of attacks, and preserving power quality by increasing link quality. Typically, a heterogeneous set of networking technologies is found in the smart grid. In this chapter, smart grid communications technologies along with their advantages and disadvantages are explained. Moreover, research challenges and open research issues are provided. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - Scopus: 53
Energy Harvesting and Battery Technologies for Powering Wireless Sensor Networks
(Elsevier Inc., 2016) Tuna, Gürkan; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Due to the advances in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), factory and plant process automation systems are being reinvented. WSN-based industrial applications often cost much less than wired networks in both the short and long terms; automation engineers are empowering existing solutions with the new capabilities of WSNs. On the other hand, since industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) consist of thousands of nodes, the problem of powering the nodes is critical. Power to the nodes is usually provided through primary batteries and this necessitates replacement when the batteries are depleted. However, the replacement may not be cost-effective or even feasible in most industrial applications.Though advancements in integrated circuit technologies help in saving more energy by leading to lower energy consumption levels, they do not eliminate the use of battery power. In this regard, energy harvesting technologies play a key role in extending the battery lifetime of the nodes. Wireless sensor nodes within industrial plants can operate from energy harvested from available energy sources such as heat, mechanical motion or vibration, indoor lighting, electromagnetic fields, and air flow. In this chapter, a review of existing energy storage technologies and various energy-harvesting techniques is given. The chapter then discusses open research issues in these topics. © 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Kablosuz Sualtı Algılayıcı Ağlarında Katmanlar Arası İletişim Ve Fırsatçı Spektrum Erişimi
(TUBİTAK, 2018) Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Tuna, Gürkan; 0000-0003-0803-8372; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Dünyamızın üçte ikisinden fazlası sularla kaplıdır. Denizlerden, göllerden ve_x000D_ nehirlerden oluşan sualtı dünyası doğal kaynaklar (petrol, doğalgaz ve değerli mineraller)_x000D_ bakımından oldukça zengin olup insanoğlu tarafından henüz tam olarak keşfedilememiştir._x000D_ Son yıllarda, bilimsel, çevresel, ticari ve askeri uygulamalarda kullanılmak üzere kablosuz_x000D_ sualtı algılayıcı ağların geliştirilmesi ve gerçekleştirilmesi noktasında endüstride ve_x000D_ akademide olağanüstü artan bir hızda ilgi olmuştur. Günümüzde sualtı algılayıcı ağlarının_x000D_ deprem izleme, denizbilim veri toplanması, felaket yönetimi, çevresel kirliliğin gözlemlenmesi,_x000D_ güvenli gemi seyri, çoklu ortam taktik izleme vb. alanlarda çeşitli uygulamaları bulunmaktadır._x000D_ Bununla birlikte, sualtı akustik ortamı güvenilir ve etkin kablosuz iletişim için ciddi zorluklar_x000D_ yaratmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, güvenilir ve etkin sualtı iletişimin sağlanması için özgün bir_x000D_ iletişim sistemi gerekmektedir._x000D_ Bu projede, kablosuz sualtı algılayıcı ağlarının ortak problemleri olan yayılım_x000D_ gecikmesinin yüksek ve değişken olması, sualtı kanal kapasitesinin yere, zamana ve_x000D_ frekansa bağlı olarak ciddi şekilde değişiklik göstermesi ve kablosuz sualtı algılayıcı_x000D_ düğümlerinin çok sınırlı enerjiye sahip olması gibi problemlerin adreslenmesi için konum_x000D_ farkında Katmanlar arası İletişim ve Fırsatçı Spektrum Erişim (Kİ-FSE) sistemi_x000D_ önerilmektedir. Geliştirilen Kİ-FSE sistemi kaynakları kısıtlı sualtı elemanları için geleneksel_x000D_ iletişim katman modelinde uygulama katmanından fiziksel katmana kadar iletişim_x000D_ katmanlarının yükünü azaltacak ve performanslarını geliştirecek tam bir katmanlar arası_x000D_ çözümdür. Ayrıca, Kİ-FSE sistemi sualtı ortamında etkin spektrum kullanımını sağlamak için_x000D_ fırsatçı spektrum erişim tekniklerinden faydalanmaktadır._x000D_ Genel olarak, bu projenin nihai sonucu sualtı ortamları için özgün katmanlar arası ve_x000D_ fırsatçı spektrum erişim esasına dayanan iletişim protokollerinin geliştirilmesi için gerekli_x000D_ metotların ve temel kavramların ortaya konmasıdır. Sonuç olarak; bu projenin kariyer ve_x000D_ eğitimsel faydalarına ilaveten, bu projenin sonuçlarıyla mümkün kılınabilecek sağlam ve_x000D_ geniş ölçekli sualtı algılayıcı ağları sualtı dünyasının bilimsel, çevresel, ticari, askeri, vb._x000D_ amaçlar için kapsamlı keşfini başarmayı mümkün kılacak ve sualtında bulunan yeni doğal_x000D_ kaynakların (petrol, doğal gaz, vb.) sualtı algılayıcı ağları tarafından keşfedilmesine önayak_x000D_ olacaktır
Next Generation Networks for Telecommunications Operators Providing Services to Transnational Smart Grid Operators
(SciTePress, 2015) Tuna, Gürkan; Kiokes, George C.; Zountouridou, Erietta I.; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Due to the networking expertise, services and technical support of telecommunications operators, Smart Grid (SG) operators prefer telecommunications operators for their communications needs instead of creating private networks. In this paper, the use of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) by telecommunications operators to provide services to transnational SG operators for SG applications is evaluated. NGNs are all IP networks which are packet based and use IP to transport the various types of traffic such as data, voice, video, and signalling over converged fixed and mobile networks. The main idea of transnational SG operators is simple. By creating a huge single infrastructure for energy, more than one countries and nations can be powered at once. For this, it is not needed to install very huge power plants. Simply creating a complex network of power grid connections to each participating country is enough. The results of a set of simulation studies are given to show the efficiency of the NGN-based communication infrastructure for SG applications in terms of important network performance metrics. The results show that NGN-based communication infrastructures can carry packets based on their priority levels and bandwidth allocations in order to meet the specific requirements of SG applications. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 3
Citation - Scopus: 6
Performance Analysis of Different Modulation Schemes for Underwater Acoustic Communications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Bahcebasi, Akif; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Tuna, Gürkan; 01. Abdullah Gül University
There is an increasing interest in using Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) for various oceanographic applications, such as pollution monitoring, seismic monitoring, environmental data collection, offshore exploration, and tactical surveillance. UASNs rely on acoustic communications; however, the underwater acoustic channel is highly variable and its link quality depends on environmental factors and the locations of the communicating nodes. Therefore, ensuring reliable communication in UASNs is quite difficult. Moreover, path losses and retransmissions lead to the wastage of energy resources and reduce the network lifetime. In this study, we have utilized well-known underwater modulation schemes to analyse and simulate various underwater scenarios with different depth, distance and Bit Error Rate (BER) values in order to make a fair comparison between the modulation schemes and obtain the optimal transmission power. Performance evaluations show that 32-PSK and 16-QAM techniques achieve the minimum energy consumption rates and enhance network lifetime. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 1
Performance Evaluations of Next Generation Networks for Smart Grid Applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015) Tuna, Gürkan; Ayana, Esra Kaya; Gülez, Kayhan; Kiokes, George C.; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Smart Grid (SG) can be described as the concept of modernizing the traditional electrical grid. Through the addition of SG technologies traditional electrical grids become more flexible, robust and interactive, and are able to provide real time feedback by employing innovative services and products together with communication, control, intelligent monitoring, and self-healing technologies. For being fully functional, utility operators deploy various SG applications to handle the key requirements including delivery optimization, demand optimization and asset optimization needs. The SG applications can be categorized into two main classes: grid-focused applications and customer-focused applications. Although these applications differ in terms of security, Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability, their common requirement is a communication infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on the use of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) for SG applications. We also present a detailed analysis of a NGN-based communication infrastructure for SG applications in terms of global network statistics and node-level statistics. © 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 7
Citation - Scopus: 10
PI-Controlled ANN-Based Energy Consumption Forecasting for Smart Grids
(SciTePress, 2015) Gezer, Gülsüm; Tuna, Gürkan; Κogias, DImitrios G.; Gülez, Kayhan; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
Although Smart Grid (SG) transformation brings many advantages to electric utilities, the longstanding challenge for all them is to supply electricity at the lowest cost. In addition, currently, the electric utilities must comply with new expectations for their operations, and address new challenges such as energy efficiency regulations and guidelines, possibility of economic recessions, volatility of fuel prices, new user profiles and demands of regulators. In order to meet all these emerging economic and regulatory realities, the electric utilities operating SGs must be able to determine and meet load, implement new technologies that can effect energy sales and interact with their customers for their purchases of electricity. In this respect, load forecasting which has traditionally been done mostly at city or country level can address such issues vital to the electric utilities. In this paper, an artificial neural network based energy consumption forecasting system is proposed and the efficiency of the proposed system is shown with the results of a set of simulation studies. The proposed system can provide valuable inputs to smart grid applications. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Citation - Scopus: 12
Realizing the Wireless Technology in Internet of Things (IoT)
(Springer Singapore, 2018) Κogias, DImitrios G.; Michailidis, Emmanouel T.; Tuna, Gürkan; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; 01. Abdullah Gül University
The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been highly based on the advances on wireless communications and sensing capabilities of smart devices, along with a, still increasing, number of applications that are being developed which manage to cover various small and more important aspects of every people's life. This chapter aims at presenting the wireless technologies and protocols that are used for the IoT communications, along with the main architectures and middleware that have been proposed to serve and enhance the IoT capabilities and increase its efficiency. Finally, since the generated data that are spread in an IoT ecosystem might include sensitive information (e.g., personal medical data by sensors), we will also discuss the security and privacy hazards that are introduced from the advances in the development and application of an IoT environment. © 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.