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Suat Mercan

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15
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91
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20112024
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Suat Mercan

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, FL, USA

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Suat Mercan received the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of South Alabama in 2007 and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2011. He is a senior software engineer with Google. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher with Florida International University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor with Zirve University in Turkey and American University of Middle East, Kuwait. His main research interests are blockchain, payment channel and peer-to-peer networks, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and content delivery.(Based on document published on 20 September 2023).
Publications
15
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91
Publications by Year
20112024
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LNGate^{2}2: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-Payments Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Sabri Yilmaz;Suat Mercan;Omer Shlomovits;Enes Erdin

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Year: 2024 | Volume: 23, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept; however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and low throughput. Lightning Network (LN), which was introduced much later, solves most of these problems with an innovative concept called off-chain payments. With this advancement, Bitcoin has become an attractive venue to perform micro-p...Show More

LNGate$^{2}$2: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-Payments Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography

Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Sabri Yilmaz;Suat Mercan;Omer Shlomovits;Enes Erdin

Year: 2024 | Volume: 23, Issue: 5 | Journal Article |

Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micropayments in Consumer IoT

Suat Mercan;Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Enes Erdin

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
Year: 2022 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |
Cited by: Papers (15)
The successful amalgamation of cryptocurrency and consumer Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can pave the way for novel applications in machine-to-machine economy. However, the lack of scalability and heavy resource requirements of initial blockchain designs hinder the integration, and it is unclear how consumer devices will be adopting cryptocurrency. Therefore, in this article, we critically revi...Show More

Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micropayments in Consumer IoT

Suat Mercan;Ahmet Kurt;Kemal Akkaya;Enes Erdin

Year: 2022 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2 | Magazine Article |

A General and Practical Framework for Realization of SDN-based Vehicular Networks

Juan V. Leon;Oscar G. Bautista;Abdullah Aydeger;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

2021 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
With the recent developments of communication technologies surrounding vehicles, we will be witnessing the simultaneous availability of multiple on-board communication interfaces on vehicles. While most of the current interfaces already include Bluetooth, WiFi, and LTE, they will be augmented further by IEEE 802.11p and the 5G interfaces, which will serve for safety, maintenance, and infotainment ...Show More

A General and Practical Framework for Realization of SDN-based Vehicular Networks

Juan V. Leon;Oscar G. Bautista;Abdullah Aydeger;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |

Efficient Group-Key Management for Low-bandwidth Smart Grid Networks

Yacoub Hanna;Mumin Cebe;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
As Smart Grid comes with new smart devices and additional data collection for improved control decisions, this puts a lot of burden on the underlying legacy communication infrastructures that may be severely limited in bandwidth. Therefore, an alternative is to consider publish-subscribe architectures for not only enabling flexible communication options but also exploiting multicasting capabilitie...Show More

Efficient Group-Key Management for Low-bandwidth Smart Grid Networks

Yacoub Hanna;Mumin Cebe;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |

PRNU-based Source Camera Identification for Multimedia Forensics

Eitan Flor;Ramazan Aygun;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

2021 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (8)
With the increased development and reliance on multimedia data, the importance of attributing the device or camera of origin in the form of source camera identification (SCI) has gained traction in cybersecurity, specifically within digital multimedia forensics. Photo-Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU) is a popular and widely used method for extracting a unique and reliable sensor pattern fingerprint ...Show More

PRNU-based Source Camera Identification for Multimedia Forensics

Eitan Flor;Ramazan Aygun;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |

Security, Privacy and Ethical Concerns of IoT Implementations in Hospitality Domain

Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya;Lisa Cain;John Thomas

2020 International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics (Cybermatics)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been on the rise in the last decade as it finds applications in various domains. Hospitality is one of the pioneer sectors that has adopted this technology to create novel services such as smart hotel rooms, personalized services etc. Hotels, restaurants, theme parks, and cruise ships are some specific application areas to improve customer satisfaction by creating ...Show More

Security, Privacy and Ethical Concerns of IoT Implementations in Hospitality Domain

Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya;Lisa Cain;John Thomas

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Sharing of Drone Videos in Public Safety Scenarios using Proxy Re-encryption

Khaled Rabieh;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya;Vashish Baboolal;Ramazan S. Aygun

2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones are being used in many applications where they can record or stream videos. One interesting application is the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and public safety applications where drones record videos and send them to a control center for further analysis. These videos are shared by various clients such as law enforcement or emergency p...Show More

Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Sharing of Drone Videos in Public Safety Scenarios using Proxy Re-encryption

Khaled Rabieh;Suat Mercan;Kemal Akkaya;Vashish Baboolal;Ramazan S. Aygun

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

A Cost-efficient IoT Forensics Framework with Blockchain

Suat Mercan;Mumin Cebe;Ege Tekiner;Kemal Akkaya;Melissa Chang;Selcuk Uluagac

2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (20)
IoT devices have been adopted widely in the last decade which enabled collection of various data from different environments. Data storage poses challenges since the data may be compromised during the storage and the integrity might be violated without being noticed. In such cases, integrity and data provenance are required in order to be able to detect the source of any incident and prove it in l...Show More

A Cost-efficient IoT Forensics Framework with Blockchain

Suat Mercan;Mumin Cebe;Ege Tekiner;Kemal Akkaya;Melissa Chang;Selcuk Uluagac

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks

Suat Mercan;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (6)
The last decade has experienced a vast interest in Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. However, slow confirmation times of transactions hamper their wide adoption for micropayments. The idea of establishing payment channel networks is one of the many proposed solutions to address this scalability. Due to the way these channels are created, both sides have a certain one-way capacity for making trans...Show More

Improving Transaction Success Rate via Smart Gateway Selection in Cryptocurrency Payment Channel Networks

Suat Mercan;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

Improving Sustainability of Cryptocurrency Payment Networks for IoT Applications

Suat Mercan;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies received a lot of attention recently for their applications in many domains. IoT domain is one of such applications, which can utilize cryptocurrencies for micropayments without compromising their payment privacy. However, long confirmation times of transactions and relatively high fees hinder the adoption of cryptoccurency based micro-payments. The payment channe...Show More

Improving Sustainability of Cryptocurrency Payment Networks for IoT Applications

Suat Mercan;Enes Erdin;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |

Assuring the Integrity of Videos from Wireless-Based IoT Devices using Blockchain

Dominik Danko;Suat Mercan;Mumin Cebe;Kemal Akkaya

2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Workshops (MASSW)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (10)
Blockchain technology has drawn attention from various communities. The underlying consensus mechanism in Blockchain enables a myriad of applications for the integrity assurance of stored data. In this paper, we utilize Blockchain technology to verify the authenticity of a video captured by a streaming IoT device for forensic investigation purposes. The proposed approach computes the hash of video...Show More

Assuring the Integrity of Videos from Wireless-Based IoT Devices using Blockchain

Dominik Danko;Suat Mercan;Mumin Cebe;Kemal Akkaya

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

Statistical Analysis of Packet Delay Time and Variation on the Internet

Suat Mercan;Aymen I. Zreikat

2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
Delay is a crucial factor on the Internet especially for real-time applications like video or audio. The best-effort service model doesn't provide essential assistance to these applications because of the unstable queuing delays. In this work, we present the result of a measurement study designed to understand packet delay time and variation on the Internet. Measurements are performed between some...Show More

Statistical Analysis of Packet Delay Time and Variation on the Internet

Suat Mercan;Aymen I. Zreikat

Year: 2019 | Conference Paper |

Cloud Assisted Overlay Routing

Suat Mercan

2018 Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Delay is a crucial factor on the Internet especially for real-time multimedia and interactive applications like videoconferencing, gaming. The best-effort service model doesn't provide essential assistance to these applications because of the unstable queuing delays. Cloud infrastructures have being used heavily for content delivery by replicating the original content prior to demand. In this work...Show More

Cloud Assisted Overlay Routing

Suat Mercan

Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |

Virtual distance: A generalized metric for overlay tree construction

Suat Mercan;Murat Yuksel

2012 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |
Overlay multicasting enabled many new overlay and peer-to-peer applications such as P2PTV, large-scale content sharing, and live video streaming. Sensitivity of these applications differs against various network performance metrics such as delay, loss, or bandwidth. We propose a generalized method of calculating overlay trees to increase user-perceived quality of performance-sensitive applications...Show More

Virtual distance: A generalized metric for overlay tree construction

Suat Mercan;Murat Yuksel

Year: 2012 | Conference Paper |

Virtual Direction Multicast for Overlay Networks

Suat Mercan;Murat Yuksel

2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum
Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In this paper we propose Virtual Direction Multicast (VDM) which aims to minimize network usage and disconnection time for video multicast applications on peer-to-peer overlay networks. It locates the end hosts relative to each other based on a virtualized orientation scheme. It builds multicast tree by connecting the nodes which are estimated to be in the same virtual direction. By using the conc...Show More

Virtual Direction Multicast for Overlay Networks

Suat Mercan;Murat Yuksel

Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |

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