ONUR KAYA

ONUR KAYA

Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences,

IŞIK UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Email: onur.kaya AT isikun DOT edu DOT tr

Biography

Onur Kaya received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Since 2005, he has been with the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Işık University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests are in the fields of wireless communication theory and information theory, with focus on multi-user information theory, semantic/goal oriented communication, diversity techniques for wireless networks, 6G, physical, MAC and cross layer protocol design for wireless networks, energy harvesting, age of information, cognitive radio, resource allocation, optimization, iterative algorithms, signal processing for communications.

Dr. Kaya is a recipient of the 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Best Paper Award, and the 2010 Işık University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, the Tutorials Co-chair for the 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, the Fundemantals and PHY Track Co-chair for the 2014 IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications Conference, the Tutorials Co-chair for the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), the Tutorials Co-chair for the 2019 IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications Conference, and the General Chair for the 33rd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2025). He currently serves on the executive board of the Engineering Deans Council of Turkey.

RESEARCH

Some Talks

Cooperation in multiuser wireless networks: advocating the relaysï¿½ rights. Invited talk, Ankara Seminars on Communication, METU, May 2014.
Encoding/Decoding Strategies, Achievable Rates, and Resource Allocation for Cooperative Multiple Access Channels. Seminar at CEL, Karlsuhe Institute of Technology, January 2011, and at Sabanci University, November 2011.
Encoding/Decoding Strategies and Rate Regions for Cooperative Multiple Access Channels. Invited talk, Workshop on Fundamental Capacity Limits on Wireless Cellular Communication Systems, University of Surrey, London, UK, April 2008.

Funded Projects

User cooperation and resource allocation in energy harvesting wireless networks. Principal Investigator, TUBITAK 1001 grant. Collaborator: Sennur Ulukus, UMD. April 2014 - September 2016.
Encoding and Decoding Strategies, Achievable Rates and Resource Allocation for Cooperative Cognitive Radio Systems. Principal Investigator, TUBITAK 1001 grant. April 2011 - September 2013.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)-Based Resource Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Communications. Researcher, TUBITAK 1001 grant. Collaborators: Tolga Girici and Melda Yuksel, TOBB ETU. February2009 - July 2011.
Optimum Resource Allocation and Transmit Strategies for Cooperative Wireless Communication Networks. Principal Investigator, TUBITAK 1001 grant. July 2006 - January 2009.

Publications

Google Scholar Page

Book Chapters

E. Uysal, O. Kaya, S. Baghaee, H.B. Beytur. Age of Information in Practice, In Age of Information: Foundations and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Power Allocation for Cooperative Communications, In Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Frameworks for Virtual Antenna Array Applications, M. Uysal, Ed., IGI-Global, 2009.

Journal

A.Topbas, C. Ari, O. Kaya and E. Uysal. Goal Oriented Random Access (GORA), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 14(8):2292-2296, August 2025.
E. Uysal, O. Kaya, A. Ephremides, J. Gross, M. Codreanu, P. Popovski, M. Assaad, G. Liva, A. Munari, T. Soleymani, B. Soret, K.H. Johansson. Semantic Communications in Networked Systems: A Data Significance Perspective. IEEE Network 36(4):233-240, July/August 2022.
B. Gurakan, O. Kaya and S. Ulukus. Energy and Data Cooperative Multiple Access Channel with Intermittent Data Arrivals, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 17(3):2016-2028, January 2018.
C. Edemen and O. Kaya, Cognitive Cooperative MAC With One Primary and Two Secondary Users: Achievable Rates and Optimal Power Control, IEEE Communications Letters, 18(11):1895-1898, November 2014.
S. Bakım and O. Kaya, Power Control for Two User Cooperative OFDMA Channels, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 12(1):258-267, January 2013.
S. Bakım and O. Kaya, Cooperative Strategies and Achievable Rates for Two User OFDMA Channels, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 10(12):4029 - 4034, December 2011.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Power Control for Fading Cooperative Multiple Access Channels, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 6(8):2915-2923, August 2007.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Achieving the Capacity Region Boundary of Fading CDMA Channels via Generalized Iterative Waterfilling, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 5(11):3215-3223, November 2006.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Ergodic Sum Capacity Maximization for CDMA: Optimum Resource Allocation, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 51(5):1831-1836, May 2005.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Optimum Power Control for CDMA with Deterministic Sequences in Fading Channels, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 50(10):2449-2458, October 2004.

Conference

R. Bonakdar, C. Edemen, M. E. Akbulut, O. Keskin, O. Kaya, M. Uysal. Visible Light Communication with Solar Cell Receiver for Indoor IoT Applications, IEEE SIU, May 2024.
O.T. Kartal, O. Kaya, E. Uysal. Resource Allocation in the Finite Blocklength Regime Under PAoI and Delay Violation Constraints, IEEE WiOpt, Aug. 2023.
O.T. Yavascan; E.T. Ceran; Z. Cakir; E. Uysal; O. Kaya. When to pull data for minimum age penalty, IEEE WiOpt, Oct. 2021.
D.C Atabay, E. Uysal, O. Kaya. Improving age of information in random access channels. IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Workshops, 912-917, June 2020.
B. T. Bacinoglu, O. Kaya and E. Uysal Biyikoglu, Energy efficient transmission scheduling for channel adaptive wireless energy transfer, IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain, April 2018.
N. Su, O. Kaya, M. Koca, Energy harvesting cooperative multiple access under energy storage losses. (In Turkish), IEEE SIU 2017, Antalya, Turkey April 2017.
A. Arafa, O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Energy Harvesting Cooperative Multiple Access Channel with Decoding Costs, European Signal Processing Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 2016.
B. Gurakan, O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Energy Harvesting Cooperative Multiple Access Channel with Data Arrivals, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.

B. Gurakan, B. Sisman, O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Energy and Data Cooperation in Energy Harvesting Multiple Access Channel. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WPCNets Workshop, Doha, Qatar, April 2016.
O. Kaya, N. Su, S. Ulukus and M. Koca, Delay Tolerant Cooperation in the Energy Harvesting Multiple Access Channel, UCSD ITA, San Diego, CA, February 2016.
N. Su, O. Kaya, S. Ulukus, M. Koca, Cooperative Multiple Access under Energy Harvesting Constraints, IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2015.
S. Bakım and O. Kaya, Optimal Primary-Secondary user Pairing and Power Allocation in Cognitive Cooperative Multiple Access Channels. IEEE ICNC 2014, Honolulu, HI, Feb. 2014.
S. Bakım, O. Kaya and T. Bıyıkoğlu, Enabling Cooperation, Resource Allocation and Receiver Selection Across Cells: Complementary Fractional Frequency Reuse. IEEE PIMRC 2013, London, UK, Sept. 2013.
C. Edemen and O. Kaya, A New Block Markov Coding Strategy for Pairwise and Collective Cooperation in the Three User MAC, International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, Batumi, Georgia, July 2013.
T. Mert, O. Kaya, H. A. Çırpan, Jointly Optimal Chunk and Power Allocation in Uplink SC-FDMA, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
M. Güneş and O. Kaya, Joint Decode/Compress and Forward based Cooperative Multiple Access, (In Turkish), IEEE SIU 2012, Fethiye, April 2012.
O. Kaya and M. İşleyen, Power control in the cognitive cooperative multiple access channel, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2012.
S. Bakım, O. Kaya and T. Bıyıkoğlu. Optimal and Near-Optimal Partner Selection Algorithms in Cooperative OFDMA, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Paris, France, April 2012.
S. Bakım and O. Kaya, Optimum Power Control for Transmitter Cooperation in OFDMA Based Wireless Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Workshop on Multicell Cooperation, Houston, TX, December 2011.
S. Bakım and O. Kaya, Achievable Rates for Two User Cooperative OFDMA, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Miami, FL, December 2010.
C. Edemen and O. Kaya, Channel Adaptive Encoding and Decoding Strategies and Rate Regions for the Three User Cooperative Multiple Access Channel. IEEE Global Communications Conference, New Orleans, LA, November-December 2008.
C. Edemen and O. Kaya, Achievable Rates for the Three User Cooperative Multiple Access Channel, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. (IEEE WCNC 2008 Best Paper Award.)
O. Kaya, Window and Backwards Decoding Achieve the Same Sum Rate for the Fading Cooperative Gaussian Multiple Access Channel, IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Power Control for Fading Multiple Access Channels with User Cooperation, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing, Maui, HI, June 2005.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Capacity Region of Power Controlled Fading CDMA: Transmit Strategies and Convexity Issues, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, IL June 2004.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Power Control and Achievable Rates for Fading CDMA: Generalized Iterative Waterfilling, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2004.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Jointly Optimal Power and Signature Sequence Allocation for Fading CDMA, IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.
O. Kaya and S. Ulukus, Optimum Power Control for Fading CDMA with Deterministic Sequences, 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2002.

Thesis

PhD Thesis: Achievable Rates, Optimal Signalling Schemes and Resource Allocation for Fading Wireless Channels, June 2005.

Advisor: Prof. Sennur Ulukus

TEACHING

Spring 2021: Introduction to Communication Systems
Past courses

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mailing Address:	Isikk University Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department Kumbaba Mevki, Şile IIstanbul, Turkey
Email:	onur.kaya AT isikun DOT edu DOT tr
Phone:	+90 216 528 7120
Fax:	+90 216 712 1468