INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Distributed Systems Group

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Dr. Fatih Senel, Ph. D.

Fatih Senel
University of Osnabrück
Institute of Computer Science
Friedrich-Janssen-Str. 1
49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Phone:
+49-541-969-2035
Fax:
+49-541-969-2799
Office:
73/E18
E-mail:

Research Interests / Projects

  • IoT & Wireless Networking
  • Topology Management
  • Fault-tolerance and node placement in Wireless Networks

Publications

2023

  • Fatih Senel, Nils Aschenbruck
    "Optimizing the Deployment of UAV for Mesh Access Network Coverage" in the Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'23), Daytona Beach, FL, October 2023 (to appear)

2016

  • Fatih Senel
    "Coverage-aware Connectivity-constrained Unattended Sensor Deployment in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks"
    Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley, Vol. 16, No. 14, pp. 2052-2064, 2016.
  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Novel Relay Node Placement Algorithms for Establishing Connected Topologies"
    Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 70, pp. 114-130, 2016.
  • Utku Ozgur, Samet Tonyali, Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel
    "Comparative Evaluation of Smart Grid AMI Networks: Performance Under Privacy"
    in the Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’16), Messina, Italy, June 2016.

2015

  • Fatih Senel, Kemal Akkaya, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Turgay Yilmaz
    "Self-deployment of Mobile Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks for Maximized Coverage and Guaranteed Connectivity"
    Ad Hoc Networks Journal Special Issue on Advances In Underwater Communications and Networks, Vol. 34, pp. 170-183, 2015.
  • Bilal Gonen, Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel
    "Efficient Camera Selection for Maximized Target Coverage in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’15), Clearwater, FL, October 2015.
  • Erkay Uzun, Fatih Senel, Kemal Akkaya, Adnan Yazici
    "Distributed Connectivity Restoration in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks via Depth Adjustment"
    in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’15), London, UK, June 2015.

2014

  • Mohamed Younis, Izzet Fatih Senturk, Kemal Akkaya, Sookyoung Lee, Fatih Senel
    "Topology Management Techniques for Tolerating Node Failures in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey"
    Computer Networks, Vol. 58, pp. 254–283, 2014.

2013

  • Fatih Senel, Kemal Akkaya, Turgay Yilmaz
    "Autonomous Deployment of Sensors for Maximized Coverage and Guaranteed Connectivity in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’13), Sydney, Australia, October 2013 (Best Paper Finalist).
  • Izzet Fatih Senturk, Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Connectivity Restoration in Disjoint Wireless Sensor Networks using Limited Number of Mobile Relays"
    in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.

2012

  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Optimized Relay Node Placement for Establishing Connectivity in Sensor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’12), Anaheim, CA, December 2012.
  • Izzet Fatih Senturk, Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel
    "An Effective and Scalable Connectivity Restoration Heuristic for Mobile Sensor/Actor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’12), Anaheim, CA, December 2012.
  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Optimized Interconnection of Disjoint Wireless Sensor Network Segments Using K Mobile Data Collectors"
    in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’12), Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2012.
  • Fatih Senel
    "Relay Node Placement for Federating Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Dissertation, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA.

2011

  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Relay Node Placement in Structurally Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks via Triangular Steiner Tree Approximation"
    Computer Communications, Vol. 34, No. 16, pp. 1932-1941, 2011.
  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Bio-inspired Relay Node Placement Heuristics for Repairing Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks"
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 1835-1848, 2011.
  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis
    "Optimized Connectivity Restoration in a Partitioned Wireless Sensor Network"
    in the Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’11 ), Houston, TX, December 2011.

2010

  • K. Akkaya, F. Senel, A. Thimmapuram and S. Uludag
    "Distributed Recovery from Network Partitioning in Mobile Sensor/Actor Networks via Controlled Mobility"
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 258-271, 2010.

2009

  • Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel and Brian McLaughlan
    "Clustering of Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks based on Sensor Distribution and Connectivity"
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 69, No. 6, pp. 573-587, 2009.
  • Kemal Akkaya, Fatih Senel
    "Detecting and Connecting Disjoint Sub-networks in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks"
    Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 1330-1346, 2009.
  • Fatih Senel, Mohamed Younis, Kemal Akkaya
    "A Robust Relay Node Placement Heuristic for Structurally Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’09), Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.

2008

  • Kemal Akkaya, Aravind Thimmapuram, Fatih Senel and Suleyman Uludag
    "Distributed Recovery of Actor Failures in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC’08), Las Vegas NV, April 2008.
  • Fatih Senel
    "Detecting and Connecting Disjoint Sub-networks in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks"
    MS. Thesis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, USA

2007

  • Fatih Senel, Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed Younis
    "An efficient mechanism for establishing connectivity in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks"
    in the Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’07 ), Washington DC, November 2007.

Teaching

Spring 2014

  • CS 102: Introduction Programming II

Fall 2014

  • CS 101: Introduction Programming I
  • CS 201: Object-Oriented Software Development

Spring 2015

  • CS 101: Introduction Programming I
  • ECE 563: Computer Networks

Fall 2015

  • CS 201: Object-Oriented Software Development
  • CS 361: Operating Systems

Spring 2016

  • CS 102: Introduction Programming II
  • ECE 563: Computer Networks

Public Service

  • Demo board member for IEEE LCN (2013, 2014)
  • Technical Program Committee Member
  • Reviewer for
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    • Ad Hoc Networks Journal
    • Computer Networks Journal
    • Computer Communications Journal
    • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
    • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (2012)
    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (2008, 2013)
    • Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) (2010)