Dr. Gürkan Gür

Dr. Gürkan Gür

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Information Security
Steinberggasse 13
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 41 13
gurkan.gur@zhaw.ch

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Membership of networks

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3105-4904

Social media

Projects

Security and Privacy for Distributed Learning Techniques in IoT-Driven Health Services / Project leader / ongoing
A Resilient and Efficient Cyber-security Fabric and Evaluation Framework for Future Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks / Co-project leader / ongoing
Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services / Co-project leader / ongoing
Intelligent Security and PervasIve Trust for 5G and Beyond / Co-project leader / completed
HostDetective / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Darzi, S. et al. (2026) 'Privacy-preserving and secure spectrum sharing for database-driven cognitive radio networks', Computer Networks, 286(112420). doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2026.112420.
Cantali, G. et al. (2026) 'Sustainable federated learning in 6G networks : the case for cybersecurity', IEEE Communications Magazine, 64(8), pp. 102–108. doi: 10.1109/mcom.001.2500643.
Braeke, A. et al. (2026) '6G AI Security : from fundamentals to offensive and defensive landscape in 6G', IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 28, pp. 4765–4799. doi: 10.1109/comst.2026.3659793.
Beljulji, E. and Gür, G. (2026) '[SOK] Large language models in security code review and testing', Journal of Systems Research, 5(1). doi: 10.5070/sr3.62177.
Benchoubane, N. et al. (2025) 'Securing heterogeneous network (HetNet) communications for wildfire management : mitigating the effects of adversarial and environmental threats', IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 9, pp. 713–726. doi: 10.1109/jrfid.2025.3601843.
Soussi, W., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2025) 'Moving target defense (MTD) for 6G edge-to-cloud continuum : a cognitive perspective', IEEE Network, 39(1), pp. 149–156. doi: 10.1109/mnet.2024.3483302.
Kalla, A. et al. (2024) 'Emerging directions for blockchainized 6G', IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 13(2), pp. 42–51. doi: 10.1109/MCE.2022.3164530.
Soussi, W., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2024) 'Democratizing container live migration for enhanced future networks : a survey', ACM Computing Surveys, 57(4), p. 97. doi: 10.1145/3704436.
Cantali, G. et al. (2024) 'Automated PIM detection in wireless networks via smart data-driven techniques', ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, 5(3), pp. 407–421. doi: 10.52953/kjip1581.
Yiğit, B. et al. (2024) 'Unmasking SDN flow table saturation : fingerprinting, attacks and defenses', International Journal of Information Security, 23(6), pp. 3465–3479. doi: 10.1007/s10207-024-00897-x.
Anser, Y. et al. (2024) 'Liability and trust analysis framework for multi-actor dynamic microservices', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 22(1), pp. 58–71. doi: 10.1109/tnsm.2024.3417934.
Kalinagac, O., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2023) 'Prioritization based task offloading in UAV-assisted edge networks', Sensors, 23(5), p. 2375. doi: 10.3390/s23052375.
Yiğit, B. et al. (2023) 'Network fingerprinting via timing attacks and defense in software defined networks', Computer Networks, 232(109850). doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109850.
Mathur, S. et al. (2023) 'A survey on role of blockchain for IoT : applications and technical aspects', Computer Networks, 227(109726). doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109726.
Kalla, A. et al. (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). doi: 10.1016/j.jii.2022.100404.
Gür, G. et al. (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. doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3195125.
Soussi, W. et al. (2021) 'Moving target defense as a proactive defense element for beyond 5G', IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 5(3), pp. 72–79. doi: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.211.2000087.
Porambage, P. et al. (2021) 'The roadmap to 6G security and privacy', IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2, pp. 1094–1122. doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3078081.
Kafıloğlu, S. S., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2020) 'Cooperative caching and video characteristics in D2D edge networks', IEEE Communications Letters, 24(11), pp. 2647–2651. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3009279.
Kafiloglu, S. S., Gür, G. and Alagoz, F. (2020) 'Connectivity mode management for user devices in heterogeneous D2D networks', IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 10(1), pp. 194–198. doi: 10.1109/LWC.2020.3031222.
Gür, G., Porambage, P. and Liyanage, M. (2020) 'Convergence of ICN and MEC for 5G : opportunities and challenges', IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 4(4), pp. 64–71. doi: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.011.1900045.
Gür, G. (2020) 'Expansive networks : exploiting spectrum sharing for capacity boost and 6G vision', Journal of Communications and Networks, 22(6), pp. 444–454. doi: 10.23919/JCN.2020.000037.
Siriwardhana, Y. et al. (2020) 'The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic : opportunities and challenges', ICT Express, 7(2), pp. 244–252. doi: 10.1016/j.icte.2020.10.002.
Siriwardhana, Y. et al. (2020) 'The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with 5G technologies', IEEE Engineering Management Review, 48(3), pp. 72–84. doi: 10.1109/EMR.2020.3017451.
Jampen, D. et al. (2020) 'Don't click : towards an effective anti-phishing training. A comparative literature review', Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 10(33). doi: 10.1186/s13673-020-00237-7.
Sinem Kafıloğlu, S., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2020) 'A Markovian model for satellite integrated cognitive and D2D HetNets', Computer Networks, 169(107083). doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2019.107083.
Yiğit, B. et al. (2019) 'Cost-aware securing of IoT systems using attack graphs', Ad Hoc Networks, 86, pp. 23–35. doi: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2018.10.024.
Yigit, B. et al. (2019) 'Secured communication channels in software-defined networks', IEEE Communications Magazine, 57(10), pp. 63–69. doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.1900060.
Gür, G. (2019) 'Spectrum sharing and content-centric operation for 5G hybrid satellite networks : prospects and challenges for space-terrestrial system integration', IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. doi: 10.1109/MVT.2019.2936608.
Kalkan, K. et al. (2018) 'JESS : joint entropy-based DDoS defense scheme in SDN', IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 36(10), pp. 2358–2372. doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2869997.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Soussi, W. et al. (2026) 'ContMTD : live migration optimization for containers in moving target defense', in 32nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Tokyo, Japan, 22-26 November 2026. IEEE.
Gülçiçek, A. et al. (2026) 'A privacy-preserving searchable encryption scheme for distributed electronic medical records', in 2026 9th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (Balkancom). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/balkancom71095.2026.11605030.
Moremada, C. et al. (2026) 'Evolution in security and privacy for 6G networks : AI perspectives and key enablers', in 2026 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit). IEEE, pp. 666–673. doi: 10.1109/eucnc/6gsummit68295.2026.11577544.
Cantali, G., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2026) 'Carbon-aware and privacy-preserving federated anomaly detection for containers', in 2026 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking). IEEE. doi: 10.23919/ifipnetworking70592.2026.11579023.
Gür, G. and Attila Altay, Y. (2026) 'SATUQ : quantum-ready cybersecurity for integrated space-aerial-terrestrial networks', in Franke, H. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers: Workshops and Special Sessions. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 176–179. doi: 10.1145/3801488.3806246.
Soussi, W., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2026) 'MERLINS : a machine learning-driven moving target defense (MTD) framework for future networks', in NOMS 2026-2026 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/noms69089.2026.11668121.
Cantali, G., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2025) 'FedSynthesis : a flower-based framework for carbon-reduced federated learning', in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3773274.3774265.
Meier Azhari, M., Soussi, W. and Gür, G. (2025) 'CubeMig : MTD live migration in Kubernetes with LLM-augmented post-incident analysis', in 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/nfv-sdn66355.2025.11349649.
Gaber, C. et al. (2025) 'A continuous certification readiness framework for cloudification of IT/OT platforms', in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E). IEEE, pp. 42–46. doi: 10.1109/ic2e65552.2025.00011.
Gür, G. and Yavuz, A. A. (2025) 'Getting ready for the future (or now) : towards a cybersecurity fabric for future integrated satellite-terrestrial networks', in 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vtc2025-spring65109.2025.11174377.
Kolodziejczyk, R. et al. (2025) 'Containers on the move : an experimental analysis of container migration in Kubernetes', in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icc52391.2025.11161983.
Ndiaye, N. G. et al. (2025) 'Safety and cybersecurity under emerging EU legislation for industry : a use-case driven perspective', in Coppens, B. et al. (eds) Availability, reliability and security. Cham: Springer, pp. 304–321. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-00630-1_17.
Stauffer, N. and Gür, G. (2025) 'Referencing your privileges – a data-only exploit technique for the Windows kernel', in Egele, M. et al. (eds) Detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment. Cham: Springer, pp. 243–249. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-97623-0_15.
Cantali, G., Gür, G. and Stiller, B. (2025) 'Carbon-aware federated GNN for anomaly detection in Kubernetes', in 13th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) PhD School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-11 June 2025.
Osswald, M. et al. (2025) 'Anomaly detection in microservices architecture using graph neural networks', in 2025 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP). IEEE, pp. 560–567. doi: 10.1109/pdp66500.2025.00085.
Falco, G. et al. (2024) 'Minimum requirements for space system cybersecurity : ensuring cyber access to space', in 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT). IEEE, pp. 78–88. doi: 10.1109/smc-it61443.2024.00016.
Ben Yahia, O. et al. (2024) 'Securing satellite link segment : a secure-by-component design', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE). IEEE, pp. 177–182. doi: 10.1109/wisee61249.2024.10850060.
Birtane, S. et al. (2024) 'Footprint-optimized orchestration and management of secure complex services over 6G continuum', in 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN). IEEE, pp. 383–388. doi: 10.1109/cscn63874.2024.10849715.
Gür, G. et al. (2024) 'V2V UAS communications and use cases for advanced air mobility', in 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN). IEEE, pp. 103–107. doi: 10.1109/cscn63874.2024.10849749.
Mayone, N. et al. (2024) 'IPv6 connection shuffling for moving target defense (MTD) in SDN', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE, pp. 373–378. doi: 10.1109/csr61664.2024.10679400.
Mamaril, A. et al. (2024) 'Exploring live payload migrations for MTD in microservices architecture', in 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vtc2024-spring62846.2024.10683429.
Enz, S. et al. (2024) 'ML driven root cause analysis (RCA) in telco microservices continuum', in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). IEEE, pp. 371–377. doi: 10.1109/iccworkshops59551.2024.10615702.
Gür, G. et al. (2024) '6G security vision : a concise update', in 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FNWF58287.2023.10520627.
Deniz, E. et al. (2024) 'Towards data analytics based PIM detection in wireless networks', in 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD). IEEE, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/CAMAD59638.2023.10478405.
Hernandez, M., Gür, G. and Namuduri, K. (2023) 'Security strategies for unmanned aircraft systems networks', in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). IEEE, pp. 996–1001. doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283520.
Anser, Y. et al. (2023) 'Demonstrating liability and trust metrics for multi-actor, dynamic edge and cloud microservices', in Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3570361.3614086.
Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'MERLINS : moving target defense enhanced with deep-RL for NFV in-depth security', in 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN). IEEE, pp. 65–71. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN59219.2023.10329594.
De Riggi, V. et al. (2023) 'Towards practical dynamic trust monitoring of containerized services in NFV infrastructure', in ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. IEEE, pp. 5227–5233. doi: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279302.
Cantali, G. et al. (2023) 'PIM detection in wireless networks as an anomaly detection problem', in 2023 International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BalkanCom58402.2023.10167980.
Kalinagac, O. et al. (2023) 'Root cause and liability analysis in the microservices architecture for edge IoT services', in ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. IEEE, pp. 3277–3283. doi: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279721.
Heeb, Z. et al. (2023) 'IoMiRCA : root cause analysis in IoT-extended 5G microservice environments', in SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 106–108. doi: 10.1145/3555776.3577840.
Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'TopoFuzzer : a network topology fuzzer for moving target defense in the telco cloud', in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154367.
Soussi, W. et al. (2023) 'Demo: closed-loop security orchestration in the telco cloud for moving target defense', in NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154420.
Chollon, G. et al. (2022) 'ETSI ZSM driven security management in future networks', in 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF). IEEE, pp. 334–339. doi: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00065.
Kalinagac, O., Soussi, W. and Gür, G. (2022) 'Graph based liability analysis for the microservice architecture', in 2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE, pp. 364–366. doi: 10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964681.
Kalinagac, O., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2022) 'Priority-driven task processing in UAV-assisted software-defined edge networks', in 2022 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS). IEEE, pp. 78–84. doi: 10.1109/GIIS56506.2022.9936953.
Heeb, Z. et al. (2022) 'The impact of Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) on IoT security', in Proceedings of the 2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/6GNet54646.2022.9830354.
Gaber, C. et al. (2022) 'The owner, the provider and the subcontractors : how to handle accountability and liability management for 5G end to end service', in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 68. doi: 10.1145/3538969.3544465.
Porambage, P. et al. (2021) '6G security challenges and potential solutions', in 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit). IEEE, pp. 622–627. doi: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit51104.2021.9482609.
Christopoulou, M. et al. (2021) 'AI-enabled slice protection exploiting moving target defense in 6G networks', 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. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22969.
Ortiz, J. et al. (2020) 'INSPIRE-5Gplus : intelligent security and pervasive trust for 5G and beyond networks', in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3407023.3409219.
Guner, S., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2020) 'Proactive controller assignment schemes in SDN for fast recovery', in 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN). IEEE, pp. 136–141. doi: 10.1109/ICOIN48656.2020.9016544.
Hewa, T. et al. (2020) 'The role of blockchain in 6G : challenges, opportunities and research directions', in 2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083784.
Taçyıldız, Y. B. et al. (2020) 'Dynamic group key agreement for resource-constrained devices using blockchains', in Zhou, J. (ed.) Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops. Cham: Springer, pp. 58–76. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61638-0_4.
Gaber, C. et al. (2020) 'Liability-aware security management for 5G', in 2020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF). IEEE, pp. 133–138. doi: 10.1109/5GWF49715.2020.9221407.
Kalinagac, O. et al. (2019) 'Caching and D2D sharing for content delivery in software-defined UAV networks', in Proceedings of the IEEE. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/VTCFall.2019.8891497.
Kafıloğlu, S. S., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2019) 'Multidimensional content modeling and caching in D2D edge networks', in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904216.
Acan, F., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2019) 'Reactive controller assignment for failure resilience in software defined networks', in Proceedings of the IEEE. IEEE. doi: 10.23919/APNOMS.2019.8892940.
Bayhan, S., Gür, G. and Zubow, A. (2019) 'PoMeS : profit-maximizing sensor selection for crowd-sensed spectrum discovery', in Cognitive Radio-Oriented Wireless Networks. Cham: Springer, pp. 3–16. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-25748-4_1.
Sertbaş, N. et al. (2018) 'Attribute based content security and caching in information centric IoT', in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018). Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3230833.3233273.

Other publications

Hernandez, M. et al. (2023) Security for vehicle-to-vehicle communications for unmanned aircraft systems. IEEE. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10085744.
Kafıloğlu, S. S., Gür, G. and Alagöz, F. (2021) Energy prioritized caching for cellular D2D networks. arXiv. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10006.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Wolf, L., Gür, G. and Borkmann, D. (2026) 'Toward an empirical security panorama of eBPF using GenAI-powered automated pipelines', in Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT 2026 Student Workshop. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 9–10. doi: 10.1145/3843179.3858045.
Gür, G. (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.