Ghosh, T., Cavdar, C., and Törngren, M. “Semantic Communications—Necessary for Future Safety- and Mission-Critical Connected Systems.” Presented at SAFECOMP 2025 Position Paper, 2025.
Sun, S., Huang, C., Xiao, P., Cavdar, C., Tafazolli, R., An, D., and Li, D. “Traffic Prediction-Based Dynamic Cell Zooming-Assisted Base Station Sleep Mode in Green Cellular Networks.” Presented at 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications, 2025.
Zhou, F., Wang, P., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Blind Detection of Drones using OFDM-Based Zadoff-Chu Sequences with Field Tests.” Presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1482–1487, 2025.
Liu, S., Zhang, S., and Cavdar, C. “Task Offloading Strategy for Dynamic LEO Satellite and Cloud Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach.” Presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 2454–2459, 2025.
Manzoor, A., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Risk-Aware Backup Path Allocation in O-RAN Based Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks.” Presented at 2025 21st International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2025.
Yonchev, A., Modroiu, E. R., Corici, M., Magedanz, T., and Cavdar, C. “Towards Reliable and Cost-Effective Backhauling for Private 5G Networks: A Multipath Terrestrial-Satellite Transport Network Leveraging Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms.” Presented at International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2025.
Li, X., Behdad, Z., Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., and Cavdar, C. “Detecting Unauthorized Drones with Cell-Free Integrated Sensing and Communication.” Presented at 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2025.
Seeram, S. S. S. G., Feltrin, L., Ozger, M., Zhang, S., and Cavdar, C. “Handover Delay Minimization in Non-Terrestrial Networks: Impact of Open RAN Functional Splits.” Presented at 12th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference and the 18th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (ASMS/SPSC), 2025.
Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Wireless Fronthaul.” Presented at 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1591–1596, 2024.
Yan, W., Topal, O. A., Behdad, Z., Demir, Ö. T., and Cavdar, C. “Communicate or Sense? AP Mode Selection in mmWave Cell-Free Massive MIMO-ISAC.” Presented at 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 889–893, 2024.
Enqvist, A., Demir, Ö. T., Cavdar, C., and Björnson, E. “Fundamentals of Energy-Efficient Wireless Links: Optimal Ratios and Scaling Behaviors.” Presented at 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), pp. 1–6, 2024.
Seeram, S. S. S. G., Feltrin, L., Ozger, M., Zhang, S., and Cavdar, C. “Feasibility Study of Function Splits in RAN Architectures with LEO Satellites.” Presented at 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024.
Manzoor, A., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., and Cavdar, C. “Combined Airspace and Non-Terrestrial 6G Networks for Advanced Air Mobility.” Presented at 2024 20th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2024.
Cai, T., Wang, Q., Zhang, S., Demir, Ö. T., and Cavdar, C. “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Energy Saving in Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Systems.” Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), 2024.
Meer, I. A., Besser, K. L., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., Poor, H. V., and Cavdar, C. “Learning-Based Dynamic Cluster Reconfiguration for UAV Mobility Management with 3D Beamforming.” Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), 2024.
Chen, J., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Nash Soft Actor-Critic LEO Satellite Handover Management Algorithm for Flying Vehicles.” Presented at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), 2024.
Li, Z., Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Mixed Static and Reconfigurable Metasurface Deployment in Indoor Dense Spaces: How Much Reconfigurability is Needed?” Presented at 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2024.
Behdad, Z., Demir, Ö. T., Sung, K. W., and Cavdar, C. “Interplay Between Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO with URLLC Users.” Presented at 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2024.
Manzoor, A., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Optimizing UAV Deployment for Enhanced Cellular Network Capacity: A Joint Optimization Approach.” Presented at 2024 6th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Applications (ICCSPA), 2024.
Li, Zhenyu and Topal, Ozan Alp and Demir, O. “mmWave coverage extension using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in indoor dense spaces.” Presented atICC 2023-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 5805–5810, 2023.
Ozger, Mustafa and Godor, Istvan and Nordlow, Anders and Heyn, Thomas and Pandi, Sreekrishna and Peterson, Ian and Viseras, Alberto and Holis, Jaroslav and Raffelsberger, Christian and Kercek, Andreas and others. “6g for connected sky: A vision for integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.” Presented at2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), pp. 711–716, 2023.
He, Qinglong and Demir, O. “Dynamic AP selection and cluster formation with minimal switching for green cell-free massive MIMO networks.” Presented at2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), pp. 234–239, 2023.
Topal, Ozan Alp and Bjo. “Optimal Joint Access Point Placement and Resource Allocation for Indoor mmWave Communications.” Presented atICC 2023-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 3216–3221, 2023.
Seeram, Siva Satya Sri Ganesh and Zhang, Shuai and Ozger, Mustafa and Grabs, Andre and Holis, Jaroslav and Cavdar, Cicek. “Aerial base stations: Practical considerations for power consumption and service time.” Presented atGLOBECOM 2023-2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 5049–5054, 2023.
Deng, Yuhang and Meer, Irshad A and Zhang, Shuai and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek. “D3QN-based trajectory and handover management for UAVs co-existing with terrestrial users.” Presented at2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 103–110, 2023.
Meer, Irshad A and Besser, Karl-Ludwig and Ozgerl, Mustafa and Poor, H Vincent and Cavdar, Cicek. “Reinforcement learning based dynamic power control for UAV mobility management.” Presented at2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 724–728, 2023.
Cheng, Sijia and Topal, Ozan Alp and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek and Edfors, Ove and Liu, Liang. “A hardware-in-the-loop simulator for mmwave massive mimo using pynq framework.” Presented at2023 IEEE 66th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 698–702, 2023.
Cheng, Sijia and Topal, Ozan Alp and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek and Liu, Liang and Edfors, Ove. “mmWave Massive MIMO Processing in Demanding Environments-An Aircraft Cabin Deployment Study.” Presented at2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1631–1635, 2023.
Topal, Ozan Alp and He, Qinglong and Demir, Ozlem Tugfe and Masoudi, Meysam and Cavdar, Cicek. “DRL-Based Joint AP Deployment and Network-Centric Cluster Formation for Maximizing Long-Term Energy Efficiency in Cell-free Massive MIMO.” Presented at2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 993–999, 2023
Topal, Ozan Alp and Ozger, Mustafa and Schupke, Dominic and Bjo. “mmWave communications for indoor dense spaces: Ray-tracing based channel characterization and performance comparison.” Presented atICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 516–521, 2022.
Demir, O. “Cell-free massive MIMO in virtualized CRAN: How to minimize the total network power?.” Presented atICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 159–164, 2022.
Salehi, Fateme and Ozger, Mustafa and Neda, Naaser and Cavdar, Cicek. “Ultra-reliable low-latency communication for aerial vehicles via multi-connectivity.” Presented at2022 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), pp. 166–171, 2022.
Meer, Irshad A and Lee, Woong-Hee and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek and Sung, Ki Won. “Low-Latency MAC Design for Pairwise Random Networks.” Presented at2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference:(VTC2022-Spring), pp. 1–6, 2022.
Enqvist, Anders and Demir, O. “Optimizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for small data packets: A subarray approach.” Presented atICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 2664–2669, 2022.
Bolakhrif, Amin and Ozger, Mustafa and Sandberg, David and Cavdar, Cicek. “AI-Assisted Network Traffic Prediction Without Warm-Up Periods.” Presented at2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference:(VTC2022-Spring), pp. 1–6, 2022.
Behdad, Zinat and Demir, O. “Power allocation for joint communication and sensing in cell-free massive MIMO.” Presented atGLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 4081–4086, 2022
Tavana, Morteza and Ozger, Mustafa and Baltaci, Aygu. “Wireless power transfer system design for low-rate in-cabin applications.” Presented at2020 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE), pp. 235–240, 2021.
Brunello, Davide and Johansson, Ingemar and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek. “Low latency low loss scalable throughput in 5G networks.” Presented at2021 IEEE 93rd vehicular technology conference (VTC2021-Spring), pp. 1–7, 2021.
Peesapati, S Krishna Gowtam and Olsson, Magnus and Masoudi, Meysam and Andersson, So. “Q-learning based radio resource adaptation for improved energy performance of 5G base stations.” Presented at2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 979–984, 2021.
Peesapati, S Krishna Gowtam and Olsson, Magnus and Masoudi, Meysam and Andersson, So. “An analytical energy performance evaluation methodology for 5G base stations.” Presented at2021 17th International conference on wireless and mobile computing, networking and communications (WiMob), pp. 169–174, 2021
Azari, Amin and Ghavimi, Fayezeh and Ozger, Mustafa and Jantti, Riku and Cavdar, Cicek. “Machine learning assisted handover and resource management for cellular connected drones.” Presented at2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), pp. 1–7, 2020.
Meer, Irshad A and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek. “On the localization of unmanned aerial vehicles with cellular networks.” Presented at2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2020.
Tomic. “Quality of service aware traffic management for aircraft communications.” Presented at2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), pp. 1–6, 2020.
Masoudi, Meysam and Khafagy, Mohammad Galal and Soroush, Ebrahim and Giacomelli, Daniele and Morosi, Simone and Cavdar, Cicek. “Reinforcement learning for traffic-adaptive sleep mode management in 5G networks.” Presented at2020 IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, pp. 1–6, 2020.
Tepper, Jan and Baltaci, Aygu. “Evaluation of RF wireless power transfer for low-power aircraft sensors.” Presented at2020 AIAA/IEEE 39th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), pp. 1–6, 2020
Sriram, Ajay and Masoudi, Meysam and Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Cavdar, Cicek. “Joint functional splitting and content placement for green hybrid CRAN.” Presented at2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 1–7, 2019.
Hofmann, Sandra and Megas, Vasileios and Ozger, Mustafa and Schupke, Dominic and Fitzek, Frank HP and Cavdar, Cicek. “Combined optimal topology formation and rate allocation for aircraft to aircraft communications.” Presented atICC 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–6, 2019.
Meer, Irshad A and Ozger, Mustafa and Lundmark, Magnus and Sung, Ki Won and Cavdar, Cicek. “Ground based sense and avoid system for air traffic management.” Presented at2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 1–6, 2019.
Wang, Peng and Ozger, Mustafa and Cavdar, Cicek and Petrova, Marina. “Beyond visual line of sight piloting of UAVs using millimeter-wave cellular networks.” Presented at2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 1–7, 2019.
Garcia, Adrian Exposito and Ozger, Mustafa and Baltaci, Aygun and Hofmann, Sandra and Gera, Damini and Nilson, Mats and Cavdar, Cicek and Schupke, Dominic. “Direct air to ground communications for flying vehicles: Measurement and scaling study for 5G.” Presented at2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF), pp. 310–315, 2019.
Masoudi, Meysam and Azari, Amin and Yavuz, Emre Altug and Cavdar, Cicek. “Grant-free radio access IoT networks: Scalability analysis in coexistence scenarios.” Presented at2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–7, 2018.
Vondra, Michal and Dinc, Ergin and Cavdar, Cicek. “Coordinated resource allocation scheme for 5G direct air-to-ground communication.” Presented atEuropean Wireless 2018; 24th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1–7, 2018.
Azari, Amin and Cavdar, Cicek. “Self-organized low-power IoT networks: A distributed learning approach.” Presented at2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–7, 2018.
Azari, Amin and Cavdar, Cicek. “Performance evaluation and optimization of LPWA IoT networks: A stochastic geometry approach.” Presented at2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 206–212, 2018.
Cavdar, Cicek and Gera, Damini and Hofmann, Sandra and Schupke, Dominic and Ghosh, Ayan and Nordlo. “Demonstration of an integrated 5G network in an aircraft cabin environment.” Presented at2018 IEEE/AIAA 37th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), pp. 1–10, 2018.
Ozger, Mustafa and Vondra, Michal and Cavdar, Cicek. “Towards beyond visual line of sight piloting of UAVs with ultra reliable low latency communication.” Presented at2018 IEEE global communications conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–6, 2018.
Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Berg, Miguel and Cavdar, Cicek. “Delay constrained hybrid CRAN: A functional split optimization framework.” Presented at2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), pp. 1–7, 2018.
Masoudi, Meysam and Khamidehi, Behzad and Cavdar, Cicek. “Green cloud computing for multi cell networks.” Presented at2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2017.
Masoudi, Meysam and Zaefarani, Hamidreza and Mohammadi, Abbas and Cavdar, Cicek. “Energy and spectrum efficient resource allocation in two-tier networks: A multiobjective approach.” Presented at2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1–6, 2017.
Wang, Xinbo and Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Cavdar, Cicek. “Interplay of energy and bandwidth consumption in CRAN with optimal function split.” Presented at2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–6, 2017.
Rocha, Helena and Delsart, Gwe. “SooGREEN: Service-oriented optimization of Green mobile networks.” Presented at2017 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 1–8, 2017.
Ansari, Arash and Jaumard, Brigitte and Cavdar, Cicek. “Energy optimization of a cellular network with minimum bit-rate guarantee.” Presented at2017 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 1–6, 2017.
Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Cavdar, Cicek. “Delay-aware green hybrid CRAN.” Presented at2017 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), pp. 1–7, 2017.
Hossain, MM Aftab and Cavdar, Cicek and Ja. “Traffic offloading based energy saving market for cellular operators.” Presented at2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), pp. 97–102, 2017.
Dolfi, Marco and Morosi, Simone and Cavdar, Cicek and Del Re, Enrico. “Energy efficient optimization of a sleep mode strategy in heterogeneous cellular networks.” Presented at2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), pp. 1–6, 2017.
Ok, Dudu and Ahmed, Furqan and Agnihotri, Mohit and Cavdar, Cicek. “Self-organizing mesh topology formation in internet of things with heterogeneous devices.” Presented at2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), pp. 1–5, 2017.
Lisi, Shari Sofia and Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Tornatore, Massimo and Cavdar, Cicek. “Cost-effective migration towards C-RAN with optimal fronthaul design.” Presented at2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–7, 2017.
Wang, Xinbo and Wang, Lin and Elayoubi, Salah Eddine and Conte, Alberto and Mukherjee, Biswanath and Cavdar, Cicek. “Centralize or distribute? A techno-economic study to design a low-cost cloud radio access network.” Presented at2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–7, 2017.
Alabbasi, Abdulrahman and Shihada, Basem and Cavdar, Cicek. “On Energy Efficiency of Prioritized IoT Systems.” Presented atGLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1–7, 2017.
Wang, Huajun and Hossain, MM Aftab and Cavdar, Cicek. “Cloud RAN architectures with optical and mm-Wave transport technologies.” Presented at2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), pp. 1–4, 2017.
Dinc, Ergin and Vondra, Michal and Cavdar, Cicek. “Multi-user beamforming and ground station deployment for 5G direct air-to-ground communication.” Presented atGLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1–7, 2017.
Dinc, Ergin and Vondra, Michal and Cavdar, Cicek. “Seamless gate-to-gate connectivity concept: Onboard LTE, Wi-Fi and LAA.” Presented at2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), pp. 1–7, 2017.
Hossain, MM Aftab and Cavdar, Cicek and Ja. “Dynamic capacity sharing based energy saving market for MNOs.” Presented atGLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1–7, 2017.
Ok, Dudu and Ahmed, Furqan and Di Marco, Piergiuseppe and Chirikov, Roman and Cavdar, Cicek. “Energy aware routing for Internet of Things with heterogeneous devices.” Presented at2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 1–5, 2017.
Andersson, Goran and Va. “Energy efficient heterogeneous network deployment with cell DTX.” Presented at2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–6, 2016.
Agnihotri, Mohit and Chirikov, Roman and Militano, Francesco and Cavdar, Cicek. “Topology formation in mesh networks considering role suitability.” Presented at2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 1–7, 2016.
Ruiz, Alberto Camacho and Cavdar, Cicek and Beckman, Claes. “Impact of base station antenna vertical beam width and tilt on the performance of LTE networks.” Presented at2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), pp. 907–908, 2016.
Wang, Xinbo and Cavdar, Cicek and Wang, Lin and Tornatore, Massimo and Zhao, Yongli and Chung, Hwan Seok and Lee, Han Hyub and Park, Soomyung and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Joint allocation of radio and optical resources in virtualized cloud RAN with CoMP.” Presented at2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–6, 2016.
Hossain, MM Aftab and Ja. “Energy saving market for mobile operators.” Presented at2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop (ICCW), pp. 2856–2861, 2015.
Piunti, Pierpaolo and Cavdar, Cicek and Morosi, Simone and Teka, Kaleab Ejigayehu and Del Re, Enrico and Zander, Jens. “Energy efficient adaptive cellular network configuration with QoS guarantee.” Presented at2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 68–73, 2015.
Hossain, MM Aftab and Cavdar, Cicek and Bjornson, Emil and Jantti, Riku. “Energy-efficient load-adaptive massive MIMO.” Presented at2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), pp. 1–6, 2015.
Jalalinia, Shabnam Sadat and Cavdar, Cicek. “Interplay between energy efficiency and survivable network planning with shared backup resources.” Presented at2015 7th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), pp. 288–294, 2015.
Monti, P and Cavdar, C and Cerutti, Isabella and Chen, J and Mohammad, A and Velasco, L and Wiatr, P and Wosinska, L and others. “Green Communications: Principles, Concepts and Practice.” Presented atGreen Optical Networks: Power Savings versus Network Performance, pp. 387–409, 2015.
Ahmed, Ashraf Awadelkarim Widaa and Chatzimichail, Konstantinos and Markendahl, Jan and Cavdar, Cicek. “Techno-economics of green mobile networks considering backhauling.” Presented atEuropean Wireless 2014; 20th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1–6, 2014.
Ahmed, Ashraf Awadelkarim Widaa and Markendahl, Jan and Cavdar, Cicek. “Interplay between cost, capacity and power consumption in heterogeneous mobile networks.” Presented at2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), pp. 98–102, 2014.
Bui, M and Jaumard, Brigitte and Cavdar, Cicek and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Design of a survivable VPN topology over a service provider network.” Presented at2013 9th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), pp. 71–78, 2013.
Ahmed, Jawwad and Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena. “Survivability strategies for PCE-based WDM networks offering high reliability performance.” Presented atNational Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. NTu3F–4, 2013.
Olsson, Magnus and Cavdar, Cicek and Frenger, Paa. “5GrEEn: Towards Green 5G mobile networks.” Presented at2013 IEEE 9th international conference on wireless and mobile computing, networking and communications (WiMob), pp. 212–216, 2013.
Tarhan, Aras and Cavdar, Cicek. “Shared path protection for distance adaptive elastic optical networks under dynamic traffic.” Presented at2013 5th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), pp. 62–67, 2013.
Martinez Ballesteros, Luis Guillermo and Cavdar, Cicek and Lungaro, Pietro and Segall, Zary. “Towards a semantic-aware radio resource management.” Presented atMOBILITY 2013, The Third International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users, pp. 16–19, 2013.
Muhammad, Ajmal and Cavdar, Cicek and Wosinska, Lena and Forchheimer, Robert. “Trading Quality of Transmission for Improved Blocking Performance in All-Optical Networks.” Presented atAsia Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. AF4E–5, 2013.
Ahmed, Ashraf Awadelkarim Widaa and Markendahl, Jan and Cavdar, Cicek and Ghanbari, Amirhossein. “Study on the effects of backhual solutions on indoor mobile deployment „macrocell vs. femtocell”.” Presented at2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 2444–2448, 2013.
Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena. “New trends in optical networks survivability.” Presented atICC 2012 Workshops, pp. None, 2012.
Jalalinia, Shabnam Sadat and Cavdar, Cicek and Wosinska, Lena. “Survivable green optical backbone networks with shared path protection.” Presented atOptical Fiber Communication Conference, pp. OM2G–3, 2012.
Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena and Cavdar, Cicek and Fumagalli, Andrea and Chen, Jiajia. “New Dimensions for Survivable Service Provisioning in Optical Backbone and Access Networks.” Presented atResilient Optical Network Design: Advances in Fault-Tolerant Methodologies, pp. 227–252, 2012.
Jirattigalachote, Amornrat and Yamada, Yoshiyuki and Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena and Hasegawa, Hiroshi and Sato, Ken-ichi. “Impairment-aware routing and waveband assignment for efficient optical transport networks.” Presented atOptical Fiber Communication Conference, pp. OW3A–2, 2012.
Yayimli, Aysegul and Cavdar, Cicek. “Energy-aware virtual topology reconfiguration under dynamic traffic.” Presented at2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), pp. 1–4, 2012.
Abtahi, Farzad and Cavdar, Cicek and Chen, Jiajia and Khanmohamadi, Sahar and Wosinska, Lena and Mantelet, Guillaume and Archambault, E. “Optimal design of cost-and energy-efficient scalable passive optical backbone networks.” Presented atAsia Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. AS3D–4, 2012.
Rosa, Adriana and Cavdar, Cicek and Carvalho, Solon and Costa, Joa. “Spectrum allocation policy modeling for elastic optical networks.” Presented atHigh Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies, pp. 242–246, 2012.
Cavdar, Cicek and Ruiz, Marc and Monti, Paolo and Velasco, Luis and Wosinska, Lena. “Design of green optical networks with signal quality guarantee.” Presented at2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 3025–3030, 2012.
Ribera, Carlos and Cavdar, Cicek and Yayimli, Aysegul and Wosinska, Lena. “Multi layer energy-efficiency in IP over WDM networks.” Presented atAsia Communications and Photonics Conference, pp. ATh2D–7, 2012.
Muhammad, Ajmal and Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo. “Fair scheduling of dynamically provisioned WDM connections with differentiated signal quality.” Presented at2012 16th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM), pp. 1–6, 2012.
Hasegawa, Hiroshi and Wosinska, Lena and Monti, Paolo and Yamada, Yoshihisa and Sato, Ken-ichi and Cavdar, Cicek and Jirattigalachote, Amornrat. “Impairment-Aware Routing and Waveband Assignment for Efficient Optical Transport Networks.” Presented atOptical Fiber Communication Conference, pp. None, 2012.
Cavdar, Cicek. “Energy-efficient connection provisioning in WDM optical networks.” Presented atOptical Fiber Communication Conference, pp. OWI3, 2011.
Muhammad, Ajmal and Cavdar, Cicek and Wosinska, Lena and Forchheimer, Robert. “Effect of delay tolerance in wdm networks with differentiated services.” Presented at2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. 1–3, 2011.
Ahmed, Jawwad and Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena. “An optimal model for LSP bundle provisioning in PCE-based WDM networks.” Presented at2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. 1–3, 2011.
Cavdar, Cicek and Yayi. “How to cut the electric bill in optical WDM networks with time-zones and time-of-use prices.” Presented atEuropean Conference and Exposition on Optical Communications, pp. We–10, 2011.
Monti, Paolo and Muhammad, Ajmal and Cerutti, Isabella and Cavdar, Cicek and Wosinska, Lena and Castoldi, Piero and Tzanakaki, Anna. “Energy-efficient lightpath provisioning in a static WDM network with dedicated path protection.” Presented at2011 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, pp. 1–5, 2011.
Ahmed, Jawwad and Cavdar, Cicek and Monti, Paolo and Wosinska, Lena. “Bulk provisioning of LSP requests with shared path protection in a PCE-based WDM network.” Presented at15th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling-ONDM 2011, pp. 1–6, 2011.
Gu, Feng and Xie, Chongyang and Peng, Min and cC. “Advance reservation for virtual overlay network services.” Presented at2011 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, pp. 1–4, 2011.
Buysse, Jens and Cavdar, Cicek and De Leenheer, Marc and Dhoedt, Bart and Develder, Chris. “Improving energy efficiency in optical cloud networks by exploiting anycast routing.” Presented at2011 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), pp. 1–6, 2011.
Cavdar, Cicek and Wosinska, Lena and others. “Cutting the electric bill by routing and wavelength assignment with time-zones and time-of-use prices.” Presented atAsia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, pp. 831014, 2011.
Cavdar, Cicek and Buzluca, Feza and Wosinska, Lena. “Energy-efficient design of survivable WDM networks with shared backup.” Presented at2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM 2010, pp. 1–5, 2010.
Cavdar, Cicek and Tornatore, Massimo and Buzluca, Feza and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Dynamic scheduling of survivable connections with delay tolerance in WDM networks.” Presented atIEEE INFOCOM Workshops 2009, pp. 1–6, 2009.
Cavdar, Cicek and Tornatore, Massimo and Buzluca, Feza. “Availability-guaranteed connection provisioning with delay tolerance in optical WDM mesh networks.” Presented at2009 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, pp. 1–3, 2009.
Cavdar, Cicek and Yayimli, Aysegul Gencata and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Multi-layer resilient design for layer-1 VPNs.” Presented atOFC/NFOEC 2008-2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. 1–3, 2008.
Cavdar, Cicek and Song, Lei and Tornatore, Massimo and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Holding-time-aware and availability-guaranteed connection provisioning in optical WDM mesh networks.” Presented at2007 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies, pp. 1–7, 2007.
Cavdar, Cicek and Yayimli, Aysegul Gencata and Rai, Smita and Mukherjee, Biswanath. “Time-zone-aware traffic grooming in IP-over-WDM networks.” Presented at2007 High-Speed Networks Workshop, pp. 31–35, 2007.
Journal Publications
Seeram, S. S. S. G., Feltrin, L., Ozger, M., Zhang, S., and Cavdar, C. “Handover Challenges in Disaggregated Open RAN for LEO Satellites: Trade-off Between Handover Delay and Onboard Processing.” Frontiers in Space Technologies, vol. 6, article 1580005, 2025.
Deng, Y., Zhang, S., Meer, I. A., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Joint Trajectory and Handover Management for UAVs Co-existing with Terrestrial Users: A Multi-Agent DRL Approach.” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2025.
Zhang, S., Ozger, M., Seeram, S. S. S. G., Godor, I., Feltrin, L., Nordlöw, A., Pfeifle, J., and Cavdar, C. “6G for Connected Sky: Holistic Adaptive Combined Airspace and Non-Terrestrial Network Architecture.” IEEE Wireless Communications, 2025.
Neetu, R. R., Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., Cavdar, C., and Ghatak, G. “UAV-Based Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Joint Activation and Power Optimization Under Fronthaul Capacity Limitations.” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2025.
Pivoto, D. G. S., de Figueiredo, F. A. P., Cavdar, C., de Lima Tejerina, G. R., et al. “A Comprehensive Survey of Machine Learning Applied to Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications.” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025.
Mölleryd, B., Ozger, M., Westring, M., Nordlöw, A., Schupke, D., Engström, U., and Cavdar, C. “Regulatory and Spectrum Policy Challenges for Combined Airspace and Non-Terrestrial Networks.” Telecommunications Policy, vol. 49, no. 1, article 102875, 2025.
Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “A Novel Access Point Deployment Framework for mmWave Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.
Zhang, S., Cai, T., Demir, Ö. T., and Cavdar, C. “Multi-Agent RL for Sleep Mode and Antenna Configuration with User Offloading Under Dynamic Traffic in Massive MIMO Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025.
Zhang, H., Miao, X., Ni, Z., Wang, S., Pan, G., Cavdar, C., and An, J. “LEO Mega-Constellation-Terrestrial Communications Suffering Poisson Arc Hardcore Distributed Space Interference.” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.
Malek-Mohammadi, M., Azari, A., and Cavdar, C. “Network Entities, Methods, Apparatuses and Communications Networks for Authenticating an Event.” US Patent 12,192,758, 2025.
Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Multi-Target Integrated Sensing and Communications in Massive MIMO Systems.” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 6, 2024.
Zou, Q., Behdad, Z., Demir, Ö. T., and Cavdar, C. “Distributed Versus Centralized Sensing in Cell-Free Massive MIMO.” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 11, 2024.
Behdad, Z., Demir, Ö. T., Sung, K. W., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Multi-Static Target Detection and Power Allocation for Integrated Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO.” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 11580–11596, 2024.
Topal, O. A., Li, Z., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Millimeter-Wave Channel Modeling and Coverage Analysis for Indoor Dense Spaces.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 3, 2024.
Meer, I. A., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., and Cavdar, C. “Mobility Management for Cellular-Connected UAVs: Model-Based Versus Learning-Based Approaches for Service Availability.” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 2125–2139, 2024.
Demir, Ö. T., Masoudi, M., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Cell-Free Massive MIMO in O-RAN: Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of Cloud, Fronthaul, and Radio Resources.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 356–372, 2024.
Meer, I. A., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Cellular Localizability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” Vehicular Communications, vol. 44, article 100677, 2023.
Zhang, S., Cai, T., Wu, D., Schupke, D., Ansari, N., and Cavdar, C. “IoRT Data Collection with LEO Satellite-Assisted and Cache-Enabled UAV: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 5872–5884, 2023.
Enqvist, A., Demir, Ö. T., Cavdar, C., and Björnson, E. “Optimizing Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Short Transmissions: How Detailed Configurations Can Be Afforded?” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 3377–3391, 2023.
Salehi, F., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Reliability and Delay Analysis of 3-Dimensional Networks with Multi-Connectivity: Satellite, HAPs, and Cellular Communications.” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 437–450, 2023.
Azari, A., Masoudi, M., Stefanović, Č., and Cavdar, C. “Reliable and Energy-Efficient IoT Systems: Design Considerations in Coexistence Deployments.” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2412–2427, 2023.
Topal, O. A., Demir, Ö. T., Björnson, E., and Cavdar, C. “Millimeter Wave Network Deployment for Cell-Free Massive MIMO in Indoor Dense Spaces.” Vehicular Communications, 2023.
Megas, V., Hoppe, S., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., and Cavdar, C. “A Combined Topology Formation and Rate Allocation Algorithm for Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 12–28, 2022.
Masoudi, M., Soroush, E., Zander, J., and Cavdar, C. “Digital Twin Assisted Risk-Aware Sleep Mode Management Using Deep Q-Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 1224–1239, 2022.
Masoudi, M., Demir, Ö. T., Zander, J., and Cavdar, C. “Energy-Optimal End-to-End Network Slicing in Cloud-Based Architecture.” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 3, pp. 574–592, 2022.
Li, W., Faragardi, H., Ozger, M., Cavdar, C., and Skubic, B. “Cost-Aware Service Selection in a Mobile Edge Marketplace.” Computer Networks, vol. 205, article 108680, 2022.
Azari, A., Salehi, F., Papapetrou, P., and Cavdar, C. “Energy and Resource Efficiency by User Traffic Prediction and Classification in Cellular Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1082–1095, 2021.
Dinc, E., Vondra, M., and Cavdar, C. “Total Cost of Ownership Optimization for Direct Air-to-Ground Communication Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 10157–10172, 2021.
Baltaci, A., Dinc, E., Ozger, M., Alabbasi, A., Cavdar, C., and Schupke, D. “A Survey of Wireless Networks for Future Aerial Communications (FACOM).” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 2833–2884, 2021.
Masoudi, M., Azari, A., and Cavdar, C. “Low Power Wide Area IoT Networks: Reliability Analysis in Coexisting Scenarios.” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1405–1409, 2021.
Tavana, M., Ozger, M., Baltaci, A., Schleicher, B., Tepper, J., Duhovnikov, S., et al. “Wireless Power Transfer System Design for Low-Rate In-Cabin Applications.” IEEE Communications and Electronics Journal, 2021.
Azari, A., Stefanović, Č., Popovski, P., and Cavdar, C. “Energy-Efficient and Reliable IoT Access Without Radio Resource Reservation.” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 908–920, 2021.
Masoudi, M., Lisi, S. S., and Cavdar, C. “Cost-Effective Migration Toward Virtualized C-RAN with Scalable Fronthaul Design.” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 5100–5110, 2020.
Pamuklu, T., Cavdar, C., and Ersoy, C. “Renewable Energy Assisted Function Splitting in Cloud Radio Access Networks.” Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 2012–2023, 2020.
Azari, A., Stefanović, Č., Popovski, P., and Cavdar, C. “On the Latency-Energy Performance of NB-IoT Systems in Providing Wide-Area IoT Connectivity.” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 4 (1), 57–68, 2019.
Masoudi, M., Khafagy, M. G., Conte, A., El-Amine, A., Françoise, B., Nadjahi, C., et al., and Cavdar, C. “Green Mobile Networks for 5G and Beyond.” IEEE Access 7, 107270–107299, 2019.
Alabbasi, A., Roeland, D., and Cavdar, C. “Interplay of Processing and Radio Parameters: A Service-Oriented Performance Study.” IEEE Systems Journal 14 (1), 398–409, 2019.
Azari, A., Ozger, M., and Cavdar, C. “Risk-Aware Resource Allocation for URLLC: Challenges and Strategies with Machine Learning.” IEEE Communications Magazine 57 (3), 42–48, 2019.
Mahmood, A., Hossain, M. M. A., Cavdar, C., and Gidlund, M. “Energy-Reliability Aware Link Optimization for Battery-Powered IoT Devices with Nonideal Power Amplifiers.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6 (3), 5058–5067, 2019.
Vondra, M., Ozger, M., Schupke, D., and Cavdar, C. “Integration of Satellite and Aerial Communications for Heterogeneous Flying Vehicles.” IEEE Network 32 (5), 62–69, 2018.
Masoudi, M., Zaefarani, H., Mohammadi, A., and Cavdar, C. “Energy Efficient Resource Allocation in Two-Tier OFDMA Networks with QoS Guarantees.” Wireless Networks 24 (5), 1841–1855, 2018.
Alabbasi, A., Wang, X., and Cavdar, C. “Optimal Processing Allocation to Minimize Energy and Bandwidth Consumption in Hybrid CRAN.” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 2 (2), 545–555, 2018.
Hossain, M. M. A., Cavdar, C., Björnson, E., and Jäntti, R. “Energy Saving Game for Massive MIMO: Coping with Daily Load Variation.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 67 (3), 2301–2313, 2017.
Dolfi, M., Cavdar, C., Morosi, S., Piunti, P., Zander, J., and Del Re, E. “On the Trade-off Between Energy Saving and Number of Switchings in Green Cellular Networks.” Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 28 (11), e3193, 2017.
Pourvali, M., Cavdar, C., Shaban, K., Crichigno, J., and Ghani, N. “Post-Failure Repair for Cloud-Based Infrastructure Services After Disasters.” Computer Communications 111, 29–40, 2017.
Vondra, M., Dinc, E., Prytz, M., Frodigh, M., Schupke, D., Nilson, M., Hofmann, S., et al. “Performance Study on Seamless DA2GC for Aircraft Passengers Toward 5G.” IEEE Communications Magazine 55 (11), 194–201, 2017.
Wang, X., Cavdar, C., Wang, L., Tornatore, M., Chung, H. S., Lee, H. H., Park, S. M., et al. “Virtualized Cloud Radio Access Network for 5G Transport.” IEEE Communications Magazine 55 (9), 202–209, 2017.
Dinc, E., Vondra, M., Hofmann, S., Schupke, D., Prytz, M., Bovelli, S., Frodigh, M., et al. “In-Flight Broadband Connectivity: Architectures and Business Models for High Capacity Air-to-Ground Communications.” IEEE Communications Magazine 55 (9), 142–149, 2017.
Wang, X., Wang, L., Cavdar, C., Tornatore, M., Figueiredo, G. B., Chung, H. S., et al. “Handover Reduction in Virtualized Cloud Radio Access Networks Using TWDM-PON Fronthaul.” Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 8 (12), B124–B134, 2016.
Rosa, A. N. F., Wiatr, P., Cavdar, C., Carvalho, S. V., Costa, J., and Wosinska, L. “Statistical Analysis of Blocking Probability and Fragmentation Based on Markov Modeling of Elastic Spectrum Allocation on Fiber Link.” Optics Communications 354, 362–373, 2015.
Jalalinia, S. S., and Cavdar, C. “Green and Resilient Design of Telecom Networks with Shared Backup Resources.” Optical Switching and Networking 23, 97–107, 2017.
Muhammad, A., Cavdar, C., and Monti, P. “Service Differentiated Provisioning in Dynamic WDM Networks Based on Set-Up Delay Tolerance.” Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 5 (11), 1250–1261, 2013.
Ahmed, J., Cavdar, C., and Monti, P. “A Dynamic Bulk Provisioning Framework for Concurrent Optimization in PCE-Based WDM Networks.” Journal of Lightwave Technology 30 (14), 2229–2239, 2012.