Research contributions in wireless communications, error-correcting codes, and signal processing
2023S. M. Abbas, M. Jalaleddine, F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Hardware Architecture for GRAND with ABandonment (GRANDAB)”, in Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding, pp. 21-38, May 2023, Springer.
2023S. M. Abbas, M. Jalaleddine, F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Hardware Architecture for Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND (ORBGRAND)”, in Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding, pp. 39-71, May 2023, Springer.
Under ReviewF. Ercan, “Syndrome Check-Aided Successive Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE Communications Letters, under review.
2024A. Riaz, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, J. Ngo, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “A Sub-0.8-pJ/bit Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2024.3502240, 2024.
2022S. M. Abbas, T. Tonnellier, F. Ercan, M. Jalaleddine, W. J. Gross, “High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient VLSI Architecture for Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2022.3153605, 2022.
2020F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, N. Doan, W. J. Gross, “Practical Dynamic SC-Flip Decoders: Algorithm and Implementation”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, pp. 5441-5456, September 2020.
2021N. Doan, S. A. Hashemi, F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Neural Successive Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 93, pp. 631–642, 2021.
2020F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Energy-Efficient Hardware Architectures for Fast Polar Decoders”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 322-335, January 2020.
2019F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, C. Condo, W. J. Gross, “Operation Merging for Hardware Implementations of Fast Polar Decoders”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 91, no. 9, pp. 995-1007, September 2019.
2019C. Condo, S. A. Hashemi, A. Ardakani, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Design and Implementation of a Polar Codes Blind Detection Scheme”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 943-947, June 2019.
2019F. Ercan, C. Condo, W. J. Gross, “Improved Bit-Flipping Algorithm for Successive Cancellation Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 61-72, January 2019.
2017S. A. Hashemi, C. Condo, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Memory-Efficient Polar Decoders”, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 604-615, December 2017.
2023A. Riaz, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, J. Ngo, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “A Sub-0.8pJ/b 16.3Gbps/mm2 Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND in 40nm CMOS”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023.
2023F. Ercan, K. Galligan, D. Starobinski, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “GRAND-EDGE: A Universal, Jamming-resilient Algorithm with Error-and-Erasure Decoding”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.
2023A. Riaz, A. Solomon, F. Ercan, M. Medard, R. T. Yazicigil, K. R. Duffy, “Noise Recycling using GRAND for Improving the Decoding Performance”, 15th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks, 2023.
2022F. Ercan, K. Galligan, K. R. Duffy, M. Medard, D. Starobinski, R. T. Yazicigil, “A General Security Approach for Soft-information Decoding against Smart Bursty Jammers”, IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops, 2022.
2022A. Riaz, A. Solomon, F. Ercan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Interleaved Noise Recycling using GRAND”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022.
2021N. Doan, S. A. Hashemi, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Fast SC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes with Reinforcement Learning”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021.
2021S. M. Abbas, T. Tonnellier, F. Ercan, M. Jalaleddine, W. J. Gross, “High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for Soft-Decision Decoding with ORBGRAND”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021.
2020S. M. Abbas, T. Tonnellier, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “High-Throughput VLSI Architecture for GRAND”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Coimbra, Portugal, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SiPS50750.2020.9195254.
2020F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Fast Thresholded SC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.
2020F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, N. Doan, W. J. Gross, “Simplified Dynamic SC-Flip Polar Decoding”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 1733-1737, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9052925.
2019N. Doan, S. A. Hashemi, F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Neural Dynamic Successive Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Nanjing, China, pp. 272-277, October 2019.
2018F. Ercan, C. Condo, S. A. Hashemi, W. J. Gross, “Partitioned Successive-Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, USA, pp. 1-6, May 2018.
2018C. Condo, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Improved successive cancellation flip decoding of polar codes based on error distribution”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 19-24, April 2018.
2017S. A. Hashemi, C. Condo, F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “On the Performance of Polar Codes for 5G eMBB Control Channel”, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC), Pacific Grove, USA, pp. 1764-1768, October 2017.
2017F. Ercan, C. Condo, S. A. Hashemi, W. J. Gross, “On Error-Correction Performance and Implementation of Polar Code List Decoders for 5G”, Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, USA, pp. 443-449, October 2017.
2017F. Ercan, C. Condo, W. J. Gross, “Reduced-memory high-throughput fast-SSC polar code decoder architecture”, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Lorient, France, pp. 1-6, October 2017.
2015F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Power-delay analysis of an ABACUS parallel integer multiplier VLSI implementation”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1-4, March 2015.
2015F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Comparative power-delay performance analysis of threshold logic technologies”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1-4, March 2015.
2014F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Energy-delay performance of capacitive threshold logic (CTL) circuits for threshold detection”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 109-114, February 2014.
2013F. Ercan, M. Yenen, M. Fahrioglu, “Method and Case Study for Wind Power Assessment in Cyprus”, Renewable Energy Sources Symposium, TRNC, 2013.
2012M. Yenen, F. Ercan, M. Fahrioglu, “Solar Thermal System Analysis of Northern Cyprus”, Renewable Energy Sources Symposium, TRNC, 2012.
2012F. Ercan, N. A. Gazala, H. David, “An integrated approach to system-level CPU and memory energy efficiency on computing systems”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing (ICEAC), Morphou, Cyprus, pp. 1-6, December 2012.
2024F. Ercan, “Space Race 2.0: The Rush for Satellite Supremacy”, NETSA Business, Leadership, Innovation, Science and Society (BLISS) Summit, April 2024. [Slides]
2023F. Ercan, “GRAND-EDGE: A Universal, Jamming-resilient Algorithm with Error-and-Erasure Decoding”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (presented by Kevin Galligan), May 2023. [Slides]
2022F. Ercan, “Energy-Efficient High-Performance 5G Polar Decoders: From Theory to Practice”, Invited Talk, SBU IEEE Student Branch, May 2022.
2022F. Ercan, “High Throughput, Low Power, or Energy Efficiency? How to Achieve All for 5G Polar Codes, and Beyond”, Boston University Faculty Seminar, Center for Information Systems & Engineering, Boston, MA, USA, April 2022.
2021F. Ercan, “New Algorithms and Implementations for 5G Polar Codes”, Bogazici University Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2021.
2021F. Ercan, “High-Throughput does not Compromise Energy Efficiency: New Algorithms and Implementations for 5G Polar Codes”, Short Webinar Series on Selected Topics of Signal Processing (IEEE Montreal \ STARaCom), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2021. [Slides]
2020F. Ercan, W. J. Gross, “Fast Thresholded SC-Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, June 2020. [Slides] [Video Presentation]
2020F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, N. Doan, W. J. Gross, “Simplified Dynamic SC-Flip Polar Decoding”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 1733-1737. [Slides] [Video Presentation]
2020F. Ercan, “Energy-Efficient Polar Decoders for 5G and Beyond”, Quebec Engineering Competition 2020, Montreal, QC, January 2020.
2019F. Ercan, T. Tonnellier, W. J. Gross, “Energy-Efficient Polar Decoders for 5G and Beyond”, IEEE Montreal Research Boost, Montreal, QC, October 2019.
2018F. Ercan, C. Condo, S. A. Hashemi, W. J. Gross, “Partitioned Successive-Cancellation Flip Decoding of Polar Codes”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, USA, pp. 1-6, May 2018.
2017F. Ercan, C. Condo, S. A. Hashemi, W. J. Gross, “On Error-Correction Performance and Implementation of Polar Code List Decoders for 5G”, Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, USA, pp. 443-449, October 2017.
2015F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Power-delay analysis of an ABACUS parallel integer multiplier VLSI implementation”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1-4, March 2015.
2015F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Comparative power-delay performance analysis of threshold logic technologies”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems & Applications (ICEAC), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 1-4, March 2015.
2014F. Ercan, A. Muhtaroglu, “Energy-delay performance of capacitive threshold logic (CTL) circuits for threshold detection”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing Systems and Applications (ICEAC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 109-114, February 2014.
2013F. Ercan, M. Yenen, M. Fahrioglu, “Method and Case Study for Wind Power Assessment in Cyprus”, Renewable Energy Sources Symposium, TRNC, 2013.
2012F. Ercan, N. A. Gazala, H. David, “An integrated approach to system-level CPU and memory energy efficiency on computing systems”, IEEE International Conference on Energy Aware Computing (ICEAC), Morphou, Cyprus, pp. 1-6, December 2012.
2020F. Ercan, “Algorithms and Implementations for Practical and Energy-Efficient Polar Decoders”, Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2020.
2015F. Ercan, “Power-Delay Optimized VLSI Threshold Detection Circuits and Their Use in Parallel Integer Multiplication”, M.Sc. Thesis, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus (METU NCC), Ankara, Turkey, June 2015.
2022A. Riaz, F. Ercan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Improving the Performance using Noise Recycling for Single Communication Channels”, IEEE 5th Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2022.
2023A. Riaz, Z. E. Kizilates, A. Yasar, F. Ercan, W. An, K. Galligan, M. Medard, K. R. Duffy, R. T. Yazicigil, “Universal Soft-Detection Decoder with Ultra-Low Energy Consumption using ORBGRAND”, IEEE 24th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2023.
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