Umut Can Çabuk, Ph.D.

Pronouns: he, him

Lecturer of Computer Science

College of Sciences
Department of Computer Science

San Diego

E-Mail: ucabuk@sdsu.edu
Phone: [619-594-####]
Office Hours: By Appointment
Location: GMCS
5500 Campanile Dr
San Diego, CA, 92182
Mail Code: 1020
Fax: 619-594-6746
Links: [lab website]
Accounts

Areas of Expertise

Autonomous UAVs, Blockchain, Drones, Internet of Things, Lightweight Cryptography, Networking and Topology Control, Wireless and Mobile Communications

Bio

Dr. Cabuk is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at San Diego State University. He specializes in real-world applications of wireless communications, security of networked devices, and interconnected cyber-physical systems. His research interests also include novel blockchain, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods and their use in solving real-world problems.

Details

Education

Ph.D. in Information Technology
Ege University
M.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering
Aarhus University
B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering
Uludag University

Publications

M. Tosun, U. C. Cabuk, E. Haytaoglu, O. Dagdeviren and Y. Ozturk, “DPkCR: Distributed Proactive k-Connectivity Recovery Algorithm for UAV-Based MANETs,” in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, doi: 10.1109/TR.2024.3370743.
O. Arapoglu, U. C. Cabuk, O. Dagdeviren and M. Challenger, “ACapDS: An Energy-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Distributed Capacitated Dominating Set Algorithm for Industrial IoT,” in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 38816-38829, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3374409.
U. C. Cabuk, M. Tosun, O. Dagdeviren and Y. Ozturk, “Modeling Energy Consumption of Small Drones for Swarm Missions,” in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 10176-10189, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2024.3350042.
Şeker, Ö.; Dalkılıç, G.; Çabuk, U.C. “MARAS: Mutual Authentication and Role-Based Authorization Scheme for Lightweight Internet of Things Applications”. In MDPI Sensors 2023, 23, 5674. doi: 10.3390/s23125674.
M. Tosun, U. C. Cabuk, E. Haytaoglu, O. Dagdeviren and Y. Ozturk, “CoRMAC: A Connected Random Topology Formation With Maximal Area Coverage in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 14, pp. 12379-12392, 15 July15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3246000.
Altas, H.; Dalkilic, G.; Cabuk, U.C. (2022) “Data immutability and event management via blockchain in the Internet of things,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 30: No. 2, Article 9. doi: 10.3906/elk-2103-105.
U. C. Çabuk, M. Tosun and O. Dagdeviren, “MAX-Tree: A Novel Topology Formation for Maximal Area Coverage in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 162-175, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2021.3110675.
U. C. Cabuk, G. Dalkilic and O. Dagdeviren, “CoMAD: Context-Aware Mutual Authentication Protocol for Drone Networks,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 78400-78414, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3083549.
Cabuk, U.C.; Aydin, O.; Dalkilic, G. (2017) “A random number generator for lightweight authentication protocols: xorshiftR+,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 25: No. 6, Article 31. doi: 10.3906/elk-1703-361.

Service

Topical Advisory Panel Member, MDPI Drones, 2024 – on.
Grant Review Panelist, NSF CPS, 2024 – on.
Organizing Committee Member, 17th Int. Conf. on Netw. And Service Mngmt. (CNSM), 2021.