Dr. Gürkan Gür

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Information Security
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 41 13
gurkan.gur@zhaw.ch

Projects

Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services / Co-project leader / laufend
Intelligent Security and PervasIve Trust for 5G and Beyond (INSPIRE-5Gplus) / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
HostDetective / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Kalla, Anshuman; de Alwis, Chamitha; Gochhayat, Sarada Prasad; Gür, Gürkan; Liyanage, Madhusanka; Porambage, Pawani,

2024.

Emerging directions for blockchainized 6G.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine.

13(2), pp. 42-51.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2022.3164530
Mathur, Shikha; Kalla, Anshuman; Gür, Gürkan; Bohra, Manoj Kumar; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2023.

A survey on role of blockchain for IoT : applications and technical aspects.

Computer Networks.

227(109726).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109726
Yiğit, Beytüllah; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih; Tellenbach, Bernhard,

2023.

Network fingerprinting via timing attacks and defense in software defined networks.

Computer Networks.

232(109850).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109850
Kalinagac, Onur; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2023.

Prioritization based task offloading in UAV-assisted edge networks.

Sensors.

23(5), pp. 2375.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052375
Gür, Gürkan; Kalla, Anshuman; de Alwis, Chamitha; Pham, Quoc-Viet; Ngo, Khac-Hoang; Liyanage, Madhusanka; Porambage, Pawani,

2022.

Integration of ICN and MEC in 5G and beyond networks : mutual benefits, use cases, challenges, standardization, and future research.

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

3, pp. 1382-1412.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3195125
Kalla, Anshuman; de Alwis, Chamitha; Porambage, Pawani; Gür, Gürkan; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2022.

A survey on the use of blockchain for future 6G : technical aspects, use cases, challenges and research directions.

Journal of Industrial Information Integration.

30(100404).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2022.100404
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Xilouris, George; Gür, Gürkan,

2021.

Moving target defense as a proactive defense element for beyond 5G.

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

5(3), pp. 72-79.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.211.2000087
Porambage, Pawani; Gür, Gürkan; Moya Osorio, Diana Pamela; Liyanage, Madhusanka; Gurtov, Andrei; Ylianttila, Mika,

2021.

The roadmap to 6G security and privacy.

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

2, pp. 1094-1122.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3078081
Gür, Gürkan; Porambage, Pawani; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2020.

Convergence of ICN and MEC for 5G : opportunities and challenges.

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine.

4(4), pp. 64-71.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOMSTD.011.1900045
Gür, Gürkan,

2020.

Expansive networks : exploiting spectrum sharing for capacity boost and 6G vision.

Journal of Communications and Networks.

22(6), pp. 444-454.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCN.2020.000037
Siriwardhana, Yushan; Gür, Gürkan; Ylianttila, Mika; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2020.

The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic : opportunities and challenges.

ICT Express.

7(2), pp. 244-252.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2020.10.002
Siriwardhana, Yushan; De Alwis, Chamitha; Gür, Gürkan; Ylianttila, Mika; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2020.

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with 5G technologies.

IEEE Engineering Management Review.

48(3), pp. 72-84.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2020.3017451
Jampen, Daniel; Gür, Gürkan; Sutter, Thomas; Tellenbach, Bernhard,

2020.

Don’t click : towards an effective anti-phishing training. A comparative literature review.

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.

10(33).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-020-00237-7
Sinem Kafıloğlu, S.; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2020.

A Markovian model for satellite integrated cognitive and D2D HetNets.

Computer Networks.

169(107083).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.107083
Kafiloglu, S. Sinem; Gür, Gürkan; Alagoz, Fatih,

2020.

Connectivity mode management for user devices in heterogeneous D2D networks.

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

10(1), pp. 194-198.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2020.3031222
Kafıloğlu, S. Sinem; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2020.

Cooperative caching and video characteristics in D2D edge networks.

IEEE Communications Letters.

24(11), pp. 2647-2651.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3009279
Gür, Gürkan,

2019.

Spectrum sharing and content-centric operation for 5G hybrid satellite networks : prospects and challenges for space-terrestrial system integration.

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MVT.2019.2936608
Yiğit, Beytüllah; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih; Tellenbach, Bernhard,

2019.

Cost-aware securing of IoT systems using attack graphs.

Ad Hoc Networks.

86, pp. 23-35.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2018.10.024
Yigit, Beytullah; Gür, Gürkan; Tellenbach, Bernhard; Alagöz, Fatih,

2019.

Secured communication channels in software-defined networks.

IEEE Communications Magazine.

57(10), pp. 63-69.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.1900060
Kalkan, Kubra; Altay, Levent; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2018.

JESS : joint entropy-based DDoS defense scheme in SDN.

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

36(10), pp. 2358-2372.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2018.2869997

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Gür, Gürkan; Porambage, Pawani; Osorio, Diana Moya; Yavuz, Attila A.; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2024.

6G security vision : a concise update [paper].

In:

2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF).

IEEE Future Networks World Forum, Baltimore, USA, 13-15 November 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF58287.2023.10520627
Deniz, Eren; Cantali, Gokcan; Ozay, Ozcan; Yildirim, Onur; Gür, Gürkan; Alagoz, Fatih,

2024.

Towards data analytics based PIM detection in wireless networks [paper].

In:

2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD).

28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6-8 November 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 1-6.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD59638.2023.10478405
Heeb, Zeno; Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

IoMiRCA : root cause analysis in IoT-extended 5G microservice environments [poster].

In:

SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Tallinn, Estonia, 27-31 March 2023.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 106-108.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577840
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Xilouris, George; Oca, Edgardo Montes de; Lefebvre, Vincent; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

Demo: closed-loop security orchestration in the telco cloud for moving target defense [poster].

In:

NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Miami, USA, 8-12 May 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154420
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Anagnostopoulos, Themis; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

TopoFuzzer : a network topology fuzzer for moving target defense in the telco cloud [paper].

In:

NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Miami, USA, 8-12 May 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154367
Anser, Yacine; Gaber, Chrystel; Cajeat, Romain; Wary, Jean-Philippe; Bouzefrane, Samia; Yacoub, Méziane; Kalinagac, Onur; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

Demonstrating liability and trust metrics for multi-actor, dynamic edge and cloud microservices [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.

29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Madrid, Spain, 2-6 October 2023.

Association for Computing Machinery.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3614086
Soussi, Wissem; Christopoulou, Maria; Gür, Gürkan; Stiller, Burkhard,

2023.

MERLINS : moving target defense enhanced with deep-RL for NFV in-depth security [paper].

In:

2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN).

9th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), Dresden, Germany, 7-9 November 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 65-71.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329594
Cantali, Gokcan; Deniz, Eren; Ozay, Ozcan; Yildirim, Onur; Gür, Gürkan; Alagoz, Fatih,

2023.

PIM detection in wireless networks as an anomaly detection problem [paper].

In:

2023 International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom).

6th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), İstanbul, Türkiye, 5-8 June 2023.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/BalkanCom58402.2023.10167980
Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Anser, Yacine; Gaber, Chrystel; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

Root cause and liability analysis in the microservices architecture for edge IoT services [paper].

In:

ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications.

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 3277-3283.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279721
Hernandez, Marco; Gür, Gürkan; Namuduri, Kamesh,

2023.

Security strategies for unmanned aircraft systems networks [paper].

In:

2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops).

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 996-1001.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283520
De Riggi, Valeria; Vogt, Raphael; Kalinagac, Onur; Gür, Gürkan,

2023.

Towards practical dynamic trust monitoring of containerized services in NFV infrastructure [paper].

In:

ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications.

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023.

IEEE.

pp. 5227-5233.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279302
Gaber, Chrystel; Arfaoui, Ghada; Carlinet, Yannick; Perrot, Nancy; Valleyre, Laurent; Lacoste, Marc; Wary, Jean-Philippe; Anser, Yacine; Artych, Rafal; Podlasek, Aleksandra; Montesdeoca, Edgardo; Hoa La, Vinh; Lefebvre, Vincent; Gür, Gürkan,

2022.

The owner, the provider and the subcontractors : how to handle accountability and liability management for 5G end to end service [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.

17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), Vienna, Austria, 23-26 August 2022.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 68.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3538969.3544465
Chollon, Geoffrey; Ayed, Dhouha; Garriga, Rodrigo Asensio; Zarca, Alejandro Molina; Skarmeta, Antonio; Christopoulou, Maria; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan; Herzog, Uwe,

2022.

ETSI ZSM driven security management in future networks [paper].

In:

2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF).

IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Montreal, Canada, 12-14 October 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 334-339.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00065
Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2022.

Graph based liability analysis for the microservice architecture [paper].

In:

2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM).

18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Thessaloniki, Greece, 31 October - 4 November 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 364-366.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964681
Kalinagac, Onur; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2022.

Priority-driven task processing in UAV-assisted software-defined edge networks [paper].

In:

2022 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS).

Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), Argostoli, Greece, 26-28 September 2022.

IEEE.

pp. 78-84.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/GIIS56506.2022.9936953
Heeb, Zeno; Kalinagac, Onur; Soussi, Wissem; Gür, Gürkan,

2022.

The impact of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) on IoT security [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet).

1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), Paris, France, 6-8 July 2022.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/6GNet54646.2022.9830354
Porambage, Pawani; Gür, Gürkan; Moya Osorio, Diana Pamela; Livanage, Madhusanka; Ylianttila, Mika,

2021.

6G security challenges and potential solutions [paper].

In:

2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit).

2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), online, 8-11 June 2021.

IEEE.

pp. 622-627.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit51104.2021.9482609
Christopoulou, Maria; Soussi, Wissem; Xilouris, George; Gür, Gürkan; Montes de Oca, Edgardo; Koumaras, Harilaos; Stiller, Burkhard,

2021.

AI-enabled slice protection exploiting moving target defense in 6G networks [paper].

In:

2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), online, 8-11 June 2021.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22969
Taçyıldız, Yaşar Berkay; Ermiş, Orhan; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2020.

Dynamic group key agreement for resource-constrained devices using blockchains [paper].

In:

Zhou, Jianying, ed.,

Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops.

18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Rome, Italy, 19-22 October 2020.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 58-76.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 12418.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61638-0_4
Gaber, Chrystel; Vilchez, Jose Sanchez; Gür, Gürkan; Chopin, Morgan; Perrot, Nancy; Grimault, Jean-Luc; Wary, Jean-Philippe,

2020.

Liability-aware security management for 5G [paper].

In:

2020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF).

3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF), Online, 10 September - 2 November 2020.

IEEE.

pp. 133-138.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/5GWF49715.2020.9221407
Ortiz, Jordi; Sanchez-Iborra, Ramon; Bernabe, Jorge Bernal; Skarmeta, Antonio; Benzaid, Chafika; Taleb, Tarik; Alemany, Pol; Muñoz, Raul; Vilalta, Ricard; Gaber, Chrystel; Wary, Jean-Philippe; Ayed, Dhouha; Bisson, Pascal; Christopoulou, Maria; Xilouris, George; de Oca, Edgardo Montes; Gür, Gürkan; Santinelli, Gianni; Lefebvre, Vincent; Pastor, Antonio; Lopez, Diego,

2020.

INSPIRE-5Gplus : intelligent security and pervasive trust for 5G and beyond networks [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020).

15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Virtual Event, 25-28 August 2020.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3407023.3409219
Guner, Selcan; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2020.

Proactive controller assignment schemes in SDN for fast recovery [paper].

In:

2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN).

2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Barcelona, Spain, 7-10 January 2020.

IEEE.

pp. 136-141.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN48656.2020.9016544
Hewa, Tharaka; Gür, Gürkan; Kalla, Anshuman; Ylianttila, Mika; Bracken, An; Liyanage, Madhusanka,

2020.

The role of blockchain in 6G : challenges, opportunities and research directions [paper].

In:

2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT).

2nd 6G Wireless Summit, 13-20 March 2020.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083784
Bayhan, Suzan; Gür, Gürkan; Zubow, Anatolij,

2019.

PoMeS : profit-maximizing sensor selection for crowd-sensed spectrum discovery [paper].

In:

Cognitive Radio-Oriented Wireless Networks.

14th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, Poznan, Poland, 11-12 June 2019.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 3-16.

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) ; 291.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25748-4_1
Kalinagac, Onur; Kafiloglu, S. Sinem; Alagöz, Fatih; Gür, Gürkan,

2019.

Caching and D2D sharing for content delivery in software-defined UAV networks [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall).

90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), Honolulu HI, USA, 22 - 25 September 2019.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2019.8891497
Kafıloğlu, S. Sinem; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2019.

Multidimensional content modeling and caching in D2D edge networks [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).

2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul (Turkey), 8-11 September 2019.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904216
Acan, Faruk; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2019.

Reactive controller assignment for failure resilience in software defined networks [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 20th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS).

20th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), Matsue, Japan, 18 - 20 September 2019.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.23919/APNOMS.2019.8892940
Sertbaş, Nurefşan; Aytaç, Samet; Ermiş, Orhan; Alagöz, Fatih; Gür, Gürkan,

2018.

Attribute based content security and caching in information centric IoT [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018).

ARES 2018, Hamburg, Germany, 27-30 August 2018.

Association for Computing Machinery.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3230833.3233273

Other publications

Hernandez, Marco; Gür, Gürkan; Tangade, Shrikant; Namuduri, Kamesh,

2023.

Security for vehicle-to-vehicle communications for unmanned aircraft systems.

IEEE.

ISBN 978-1-5044-9576-9.

Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10085744
Kafıloğlu, Sebahat Sinem; Gür, Gürkan; Alagöz, Fatih,

2021.

Energy prioritized caching for cellular D2D networks.

arXiv.

Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10006

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Gür, Gürkan,

2020.

What happens next? : beyond security with liability in future networks.

In:

The 6th International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking (MSPN 2020), Paris (France), virtual, 28-29 October 2020.

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