Vehbi Cagri Gungor

Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

[Biography] [Research] [Publications] [Professional Activities] [Links]

Biography

Vehbi Cagri Gungor was born in Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in June 2001 and December 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in June 2007. Currently, he is a Communication Systems Architect at Eaton Corporation, Innovation Center, WI, USA.

Vehbi Cagri Gungor is also the recipient of the IEEE ISCN 2006 Best Paper Award and the 2nd Most Downloaded Paper Award in Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), according to the Science Direct, 2006.

Research

His current research interests are wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, underwater acoustic communications, wireless mesh networks, cognitive radio networks, power line communications, embedded systems, optimization models, electric system automation, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. At Georgia Institute of Technology, he has been involved in the following projects:

Publications

Journal Papers

V.C. Gungor, O.B. Akan, I.F. Akyildiz, "A Real-Time and Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2008.[abstract]
V.C. Gungor, G. Hancke, “Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Challenges and Design Principles,” under second revision in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, November 2008.
T. Melodia, D. Pompili, V.C. Gungor, I.F. Akyildiz,"Communication and Coordination in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, October 2007.[abstract]
V.C. Gungor, O.B. Akan, "Delay-Aware Reliable Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks," in International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, December 2007. [abstract]
V.C. Gungor, M.C. Vuran and O.B. Akan, "Cross-Layer Interactions between Congestion and Contention in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," in Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), September 2007.[abstract]
V.C. Gungor,"Efficient Available Energy Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks," in International Journal of Sensor Networks (Inderscience), December 2006. [abstract]
V.C. Gungor, F. Lambert, "A Survey on Communication Networks for Electric System Automation," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 50, pp. 877-897, May 2006. (The second most downloaded paper in 2006) [abstract]
V.C. Gungor, P. Pace, E. Natalizio, "An Efficient and Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks," submitted for journal publication, 2007.
V.C. Gungor, C. Sastry, Z. Song, R. Integlia, "Link-quality-based and Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks", in preparation, 2008.
V.C. Gungor, "Wireless Sensor Networks for Electric Motor Monitoring," in preparation, 2008.

Conference Papers
V.C. Gungor, C. Sastry, Z. Song, R. Integlia, "Resource-aware and Link-quality-based Routing Metric for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks", to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.[abstract]
V.C. Gungor, P. Pace, E. Natalizio, "AR-TP: An Adaptive and Responsive Transport Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks," to appear in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.[abstract]
V.C. Gungor and O.B. Akan, "DST: Delay Sensitive Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. of IEEE ISCN 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. (Best Paper Award) [abstract]
V.C. Gungor, "A Forecasting-Based Monitoring and Tomography Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.[abstract]
D. Pompili, C. Scoglio and V.C. Gungor, "Virtual-Flow Multi-path Algorithms for MPLS," in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.[abstract]
M.C. Vuran, V.C. Gungor, R.J. Clark, "Analysis of Utilization and Mobility in a Campus-wide Wireless Network," in Proc. of Med-Hoc-Net 2006, Lipari, Italy, June 2006.[abstract]
M.C. Vuran, V.C. Gungor, O.B. Akan, "On the Interdependency of Congestion and Contention in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of ICST SenMetrics 2005, San Diego, CA, July 2005.[abstract]
T. Melodia, D. Pompili, V.C. Gungor, I.F. Akyildiz, "A Distributed Coordination Framework for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," in Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC 2005, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2005.[abstract]
S. Soro, M. Faschinger, C. Sastry, Y. Genc, V.C. Gungor, "Precise Asset Tracking through Fusion of Coarse Location Information from a Wireless Sensor Network and Video Imagery from a Camera," to appear in Proc. of IFIP NETWORKING 2007 (poster presentation), Atlanta, GA, May 2007.[abstract]

Book Chapter
V.C. Gungor, E. Natalizio, P. Pace, and S. Avollone, "Challenges and Issues in Designing Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks," to appear in Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Invention Disclosure
V.C. Gungor and S. Chellury, "Automatic Sensor-Controller Binding for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks through Adaptive and Self-Organizing Coordination Framework," Siemens Corporate Research, August 2006.

Thesis
V.C. Gungor, "Real-Time and Reliable Communication in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks", Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, June 2007.
V.C. Gungor, "Handover Algorithms in Mobile IPv6," M.S. Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2003.

Professional Activities

Wireless Working Group Lead Member, SAE J2836 Standard Energy Transfer System for Electric Vehicles, 2008-present.
Registration Co-Chair, IFIP Networking 2007 Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2007.
TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2007 Conference, Washington D.C., USA, November 2007.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transaction on Computers, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), and several IEEE conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MOBIHOC, ACM MOBICOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE GLOBECOM, etc.
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Communication Society (IEEE ComSoc), Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO).