Supervised Theses

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Ece Guran Schmidt

2026 Theses

Theses completed in 2026, presented with research infographics and short summaries.

2026
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M.Sc. Thesis

ARIA: A QoS-Aware On-Chip Packet Switch for Heterogeneous FPGA/SoC Systems

Feyza Nur Takıl•M.Sc. Thesis•September 2026
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ece Guran Schmidt

ARIA is a centralized on-chip packet switch for heterogeneous FPGA/SoC systems, combining virtual output queues, an N × N crossbar, packet reassembly, and CAROM, a weighted request–grant–accept arbiter with deterministic priority progression.

The VHDL design, synthesized on an AMD Kintex UltraScale+ FPGA, provides configurable relative service differentiation while preserving weighted service behavior through packet reassembly.

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M.Sc. Thesis

Comparative Evaluation of Offset Scheduling Methods for AFDX Networks

Kaan Çelik•M.Sc. Thesis•September 2026
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Şenan Ece Schmidt and Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt

Kaan Çelik’s thesis investigates how transmission offsets can be exploited to obtain tighter worst-case end-to-end delay guarantees in safety-critical AFDX networks. The work identifies a correctness issue in existing offset-aware Network Calculus when same-source Virtual Links diverge and later reconverge, and introduces route-coherent source groups to preserve source-timing information only while justified by the common route history.

A VL-specific analysis based on exact and compacted source sequences further reduces pessimism. In the largest A350-like configuration, the method provides tighter bounds for 99.9% of destination paths, with a 31.92% mean path-level reduction, while preserving conservative timing guarantees.

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M.Sc. Thesis

A Machine Learning Framework for High-Frequency Midprice Prediction: Feature Engineering, Hyperparameter Space Exploration, and Profit-Loss Evaluation

Barış Tiryaki•M.Sc. Thesis•January 2026
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ece Guran Schmidt

This research develops an XGBoost-based framework for mid-price prediction using event-driven limit order book data from Borsa İstanbul and introduces Effective Q-Price (EQP), a liquidity-aware feature spanning multiple order-book levels.

A regression formulation achieves nearly the same predictive and trading performance as classification while reducing average inference time from 1415 ns to 509 ns per sample and substantially reducing model size.

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M.Sc. Thesis

FPGA Hardware Acceleration for Ultra-Low-Latency Machine Learning: Architecture and System-Level Implementation for High-Frequency Trading

Alperen Koyun•M.Sc. Thesis•January 2026
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ece Guran Schmidt

This thesis develops an end-to-end FPGA framework for XGBoost-based mid-price prediction in high-frequency trading, from hardware-oriented feature generation to TreeLUT inference.

The system automatically generates HDL for feature processing, extends TreeLUT with signed features and regression support, and achieves 110 ns computational latency and 550 ns full FPGA-system latency.

Ph.D. Theses

  1. A General Framework For The Deterministic Medium Access On The Controller Area Network, Murat Akpınar, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: June 2022, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  2. Communication and Coordination for Urban Intelligent Transportation: Architecture and Algorithms, Maksat Atagoziyev, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: February 2022 Co-advisor, Main advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  3. Fast, Efficient and Dynamically Optimized Data and Hardware Architectures for String Matching, Salih Zengin, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: September 2014, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Hasan Guran. Thesis overview
  4. Dependability Design for Distributed Real-Time Systems with Broadcast Communication, Yusuf Bora Kartal, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: June 2014. Thesis overview
  5. Design and implementation of hardware architectures for high-speed IP address lookup, Nizam Ayyıldız, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: August 2013, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Hasan Guran. Thesis overview
  6. QoC and QoS bargaining for message scheduling in networked control systems, Sinan Şenol, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: June 2012, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Kemal Leblebicioğlu.
  7. Design and implementation of scheduling and switching architectures for high-speed networks, Mustafa Sanlı, Ph.D. Thesis, Defense date: October 2011, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Hasan Guran.

M.Sc. Theses

  1. ARIA: A QoS-Aware On-Chip Packet Switch for Heterogeneous FPGA/SoC Systems, Feyza Nur Takıl, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2026.
  2. Comparative Evaluation of Offset Scheduling Methods for AFDX Networks, Kaan Çelik, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2026, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
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  3. A Machine Learning Framework for High-Frequency Midprice Prediction: Feature Engineering, Hyperparameter Space Exploration, and Profit-Loss Evaluation, Barış Tiryaki, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2026.
  4. FPGA Hardware Acceleration for Ultra-Low-Latency Machine Learning: Architecture and System-Level Implementation for High-Frequency Trading, Alperen Koyun, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2026.
  5. Dynamic, Adaptive, And Optimal Resource Allocation And Migration In Cloud Data Centers, Onat Deniz Doğan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: July 2025, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  6. Offset Scheduling For AFDX: Definition, Response Time Computation, and Evaluation, Muhammed Fatih E;gin, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: July 2025, Co-advisor, Advisor:Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  7. An FPGA-Accelerated String-Matching Engine, Süleyman Samet Yalçın, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: November 2024.
  8. Cycle-Accurate Functional Simulation of RISC-V Processors for Embedded Applications: Timing Model Construction, Validation and Performance Evaluation, Utkucan Doğan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2024.
  9. Hardware Accelerators for High Throughput Packet Classification in Computer Networks, Doğu Erkan Arkadaş, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2024.
  10. Hardware Accelerated Packet Parsers and Deparsers for High-Throughput Flow Classification in Computer Networks: Design, Implementation and Evaluation, Ömer Bayram Demir, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2024.
  11. High-Throughput Bloom Filter Design: Systematic Parameter Selection and FPGA Implementation, Efe Berkay Yitim, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: July 2024.
  12. Anomaly Detection of MIL-STD 1553 Traffic: Machine Learning Methods and Realistic Simulation Evaluation, Hüseyin Sağırkaya, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2023.
  13. A UPF Module for 5G Networks with Quality of Service Support: Software Implementation and Realistic Evaluation, Mustafa Fatih Çemen, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2023.
  14. Optimal Resource Allocation and Migration Decision for Virtual Machine Requests in Cloud Data Centers, Nazım Kerem Mert, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2023, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  15. An Analytical Method for the Analysis and Design of AFDX Networks, Zeynep Ayhan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: June 2023, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  16. A Novel and Precise False Positive Probability Computation for Bloom Filters Implemented with Universal Hash Functions, Furkan Koltuk, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2022.
  17. AFDX (Avionics Full-duplex Switched Ethernet) Network Simulation and Performance Analysis, İpek Peşkircioğlu Gökçe, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: July 2022,Co-advised with Assoc.Prof. Dr. Murat Üçüncü, Başkent University.
  18. Extension of an Open Source Resource Management Tool For Heterogeneous Cloud Data Centers: Implementation And Evaluation, Taha Doğan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2022.
  19. A Workflow for Offering Hardware Accelerators as a Cloud Computing Service: Implementation and Evaluation, Anıl Tırlıoğlu, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2022. Thesis overview
  20. Design, Implementation And Verification Of A High-Speed On-Chip Packet Switch, Ayhan Sefa Yıldız, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2022.
  21. A Novel Flexible On-chip Switch Architecture for Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerators, Fatih Yazıcı, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2021. Thesis overview
  22. A New Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Ethernet Protocol: Design and Evaluation, Emre Atik, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2021, Co-advised with Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  23. Dynamic Resource Allocation in Virtualized Networks for Network Slicing, Ceren Canpolat, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2020. Thesis overview
  24. Clock Synchronization Algorithms on a Software Defined CAN Controller: Implementation and Evaluation Serkan Yalçın, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2020, Co-advisor, Main advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  25. Train Communication Network, Multifunction Vehicle Bus, Scheduling, Integer Linear Programming, Heuristics, Mustafa Çağlar Güldiken, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2020, Co-advisor, Main advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  26. Optimal Dynamic Resource Allocation for Heterogenous Cloud Data Centers, Nazım Umut Ekici, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2019.Thesis overview
  27. Generalized Resource Management for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Centers, Ahmet Erol, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2019.Thesis overview
  28. A Link Delay Computation Method for the Quality of Service Support in Software Defined Networks, Efe Balo, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2019. Thesis overview
  29. C³: Configurable CAN FD Controller: Design, Implementation and Evaluation, Mehmet Ertuğ Afşin, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2018, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.Thesis overview
  30. Controller Area Network with Offset Scheduling: Improved Offset Assignment Algorithms and Computation of Response Time Distributions, Ahmet Batur, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2018, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  31. An End-To-End Communication Architecture for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Design, Implementation and Latency Analysis, Çağatay Bağcı, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2018. Thesis overview
  32. Efficient and Fair Adaptive Streaming: Algorithm, Implementation and Evaluation, Ahmet Öge, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: June 2017. Thesis overview
  33. Efficient algorithms for the frame packing and slot allocation of FlexRay v3.0, Cumhur Çakmak, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2017, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.Thesis overview
  34. A Low Latency, High Throughput and Scalable Hardware Architecture for Flow Tables in Software Defined Networks, Göksan Eral, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2016. Thesis overview
  35. TZAR – Time Zone Based Approximation To Ring: An Autonomous Protection Switching Algorithm for Globally Resilient Optical Transport Networks, Fatih Düzgün, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2016.
  36. Message Scheduling For The Static and Dynamic Segment of Flexray: Algorithms and Applications Özgur Kızılay, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2015, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  37. Dynamic Analysis For Complex Event Processing, Muhammet Oğuz Özcan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2015, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Ali Doğru. Thesis overview
  38. Controller Area Network (CAN) Response Time Analysis and Scheduling For Advanced Topics: Offsets, FIFO Queues and Gateways, Burak Alkan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2015, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  39. A Frame Packing Method to Improve the Schedulability on CAN and CAN-FD, Gökhan Urul, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2015, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  40. RSAR: A Layered Software Architecture for Cyber-physical Systems, Erhan Akagündüz, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2015, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Halit Oğuztüzün.
  41. A Generic and Extendable System Architecture for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Kaan Çetinkaya, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2015. Thesis overview
  42. UNIBUS: A Universal Hardware Architecture For Serial Bus Interfaces With Real-Time Support, Mehdi Duman, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2015. Thesis overview
  43. Software Implementations of QoS Scheduling Algorithms for High Speed Networks Aydın Pehlivanlı, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2015. Thesis overview
  44. Implementation and Performance Analysis Of Switch Fabric Schedulers With a New Accurate Simulator Software, Ahmet Ada, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2014. Thesis overview
  45. Switch Fabric Schedulers with Intelligent Multi-Class Support: Design, Implementation and Evaluation on FPGA , Murat Akpınar, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2014.Thesis overview
  46. Diagnosers for discrete event systems: improved realization and examples, Bora Eser Kart, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2014, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  47. Combined centralized and decentralized fault diagnosis for discrete event systems, Ruhi Karav, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: February 2014, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  48. An FPGA implementation of two-step trajectory planning for automatic parking Halil Ertuğrul, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2013, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  49. Simulation-based VoIP performance evaluation under different traffic and codec conditions, Berk Ünlü, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2013. Thesis overview
  50. Implementation and evaluation of the dependability plane for the Dynamic Distributed Dependable Real Time Industrial Protocol (D3RIP), Ömer Berat Sezer, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2013, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  51. Implementation and evaluation of the Dynamic Distributed Real Time Industrial Protocol (D2RIP), Adem Kaya, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2013, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  52. https Adaptive Streaming architectures for Video on Demand and Live TV services, Yiğit Özcan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2013. Thesis overview
  53. The development and hardware implementation of a dynamically reconfigurable and area optimized Cyclic Redundancy Check architecture, Özcan Yurt, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2013. Thesis overview
  54. Software tool development for the automated configuration of FlexRay networks for in-vehicle communication, Can Öztürk, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2013, Co-advised with Associate Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt. Thesis overview
  55. The development and hardware implementation of a high-speed adaptable packet switch fabric, Erdem Eyüp Akbaba, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2013. Thesis overview
  56. A new service architecture for IPTV over Internet, Merve Özkardeş, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2013. Thesis overview
  57. A software tool for vehicle calibration, diagnosis and test via controller area network Utku Civelek, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2012. Thesis overview
  58. Development of strategies for reducing the worst-case message response times on the controller area network, Vakkas Çelik, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: January 2012, Co-advised with Assistant Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Schmidt.
  59. Simulation and performance evaluation of a distributed real-time communication protocol for industrial embedded systems, Güray Aybar, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2011.
  60. Implementation and evaluation of a eynchronous time-slotted medium access protocol for networked industrial embedded systems, Ahmet Korhan Gözcü, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2011.
  61. Implementing and evaluating the Coordination Layer and time-synchronization of a new protocol for industrial communication networks, Ulaş Turan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: September 2011.
  62. A faster intrusion detection method for high-speed computer networks, Mehmet Cem Tarım, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: May 2011.
  63. Ethernet based real time communications for embedded systems, Ozan Yılmaz, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: May 2010.
  64. Inter-connected FlexRay and CAN Networks for ın-vehicle communication: Gateway implementation and end-to-end performance study, Melih Alkan, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: May 2010.
  65. Performance evaluation of FlexRay networks for in-vehicle communication, Ali Demirci, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: November 2009.
  66. A new feedback-based contention avoidance algorithm for optical burst switching networks, Hadi Alper Toku, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2008.
  67. Time-triggered controller area network (TTCAN) communication scheduling: a systematic approach, Uğur Keskin, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: August 2008.
  68. Connectionless traffic and variable packet size support in high speed network switches: improvements for the delay-limiter switch, Alican Akçasoy, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: June 2008.
  69. Testing distributed real-time systems with a distributed test approach Gökhan Öztaş, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: May 2008.
  70. A new approach for the scalable intrusion detection in high-speed networks, Ümit Burak Şahin, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2007.
  71. Scheduling algorithms for wireless CDMA networks, Serkan Ender Hakyemez, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2007.
  72. Routing algorithms for on chip networks, Maksat Atagoziyev, M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: December 2007.
  73. An evaluation of aspect-oriented programming for embedded real-time systems, Yusuf Bora Kartal, M.S. Thesis, Defense date: May 2007.
  74. A novel method for the detection of P2P traffic in the network backbone inspired by intrusion detection systems, Murat Soysal , M.Sc. Thesis, Defense date: June 2006.