10.07.2026
A collaborative study by SENS faculty members and Electrical and Electronics Engineering students received the Second Place Award in the Signal Processing and Applications Track at the 33rd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU 2026).
We are proud to announce that our paper, “Receiver-Centric TDOA Localization Framework for DAB Signals under Synchronization Impairments,” received the Second Place Award in the Signal Processing and Applications Track at SIU 2026. The study was conducted by Mustafa Furkan Beker and Abdullah Tan, undergraduate students in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, together with Lecturer Khaled Walid Elgammal and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kemal Özdemir, faculty members of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Istanbul Medipol University.
The award-winning research presents a receiver-centric localization framework that enables accurate positioning in environments where conventional GNSS-based navigation is unreliable or unavailable. By utilizing Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) signals as signals of opportunity, the proposed framework addresses synchronization impairments—including clock offsets, clock drift, and multipath effects—through bias correction, reliability-based weighting, and temporal filtering. These improvements significantly enhance localization accuracy and robustness under challenging real-world conditions.
In addition to the award-winning paper, the team also presented a second research paper at SIU 2026 titled “RIS-Assisted Secure Transmission with Artificial Noise: Element Allocation and Measurements,” highlighting SENS’s continued contributions to research in wireless communications, signal processing, and secure communication systems.
We congratulate Mustafa Furkan Beker, Abdullah Tan, Lecturer Khaled Walid Elgammal, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kemal Özdemir on this outstanding achievement and wish them continued success in their future research endeavors.