Publications

Research Metrics & Impact

Research Impact

815 Citations

15 h-index

43 Publications

Updated on Mar 01, 2026

Research Output

Journal Articles

• Tantur Karagul, C., Akgun, M. B., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2025). Mitigating energy cost of connection reliability in UWSNs through non-uniform k-connectivity. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(22), 47817–47826.
  

• Asci, M., Akusta Dagdeviren, Z., Akram, V. K., Yildiz, H. U., Dagdeviren, O., & Tavli, B. (2025). Enhancing drone network resilience: Investigating strategies for k-connectivity restoration. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 92, 103941.
  

• Gultekin, B., Nurcan-Atceken, D., Altin-Kayhan, A., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2023). Exploring the tradeoff between energy dissipation, delay, and the number of backbones for broadcasting in wireless sensor networks through goal programming. Ad Hoc Networks, 149, 103223.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2023). Joint effects of void region size and sink architecture on underwater WSNs lifetime. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23(10), 11046–11056.
  

• Cobanlar, M., Yildiz, H. U., Akram, V. K., Dagdeviren, O., & Tavli, B. (2022). On the tradeoff between network lifetime and k-connectivity-based reliability in UWSNs. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(23), 24444–24452.
  

• Carsancakli, M. F., Al Imran, M. A., Yildiz, H. U., Kara, A., & Tavli, B. (2022). Reliability of linear WSNs: A complementary overview and analysis of impact of cascaded failures on network lifetime. Ad Hoc Networks, 131, 102839.
  

• Tekin, N., Yildiz, H. U., & Gungor, V. C. (2021). Node-level error control strategies for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(13), 15386–15397.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., & Tavli, B. (2019). Comparative analysis of transmission power level and packet size optimization strategies for WSNs. IEEE Systems Journal, 13(3), 2264–2274.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2019). Maximization of underwater sensor networks lifetime via fountain codes. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(8), 4602–4613.
  

• Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., Ozbayoglu, A. M., & Tavli, B. (2019). Neural network–based instant parameter prediction for wireless sensor network optimization models. Wireless Networks, 25(6), 3405–3418.
  

• Erdem, H. E., Yildiz, H. U., & Gungor, V. C. (2019). On the lifetime of compressive sensing based energy harvesting in underwater sensor networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(12), 4680–4687.
  

• Sayit, M., Cetinkaya, C., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2019). DASH–QoS: A scalable network layer service differentiation architecture for DASH over SDN. Computer Networks, 154, 12–25.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2019). Investigation of maximum lifetime and minimum delay trade-off in underwater sensor networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(7), e3924.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Gungor, V. C., & Tavli, B. (2019). Packet size optimization for lifetime maximization in underwater acoustic sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(2), 719–729.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2018). The impact of transmission power levels set size on lifetime of wireless sensor networks in smart grids. Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 26(6), 3057–3071.
  

• Yigit, M., Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., Tavli, B., & Gungor, V. C. (2018). A survey on packet size optimization for terrestrial, underwater, underground, and body area sensor networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, 31(11), e3572.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Ciftler, B. S., Tavli, B., Bicakci, K., & Incebacak, D. (2018). The impact of incomplete secure connectivity on the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. IEEE Systems Journal, 12(1), 1042–1046.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., Kahjogh, B., & Dogdu, E. (2017). The impact of incapacitation of multiple critical sensor nodes on wireless sensor network lifetime. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 6(3), 306–309.
  

• Kurt, S., Yildiz, H. U., Yigit, M., Tavli, B., & Gungor, V. C. (2017). Packet size optimization in wireless sensor networks for smart grid applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64(3), 2392–2401.
  

• Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., & Uludag, S. (2016). Joint optimization of transmission power level and packet size for WSN lifetime maximization. IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(12), 5084–5094.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Bicakci, K., Tavli, B., Gultekin, H., & Incebacak, D. (2016). Maximizing wireless sensor network lifetime by communication/computation energy optimization of non-repudiation security service: Node level versus network level strategies. Ad Hoc Networks, 37(2), 301–323.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, & Yanikomeroglu, H. (2016). Transmission power control for link–level handshaking in wireless sensor networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(2), 561–576.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Temiz, M., & Tavli, B. (2015). Impact of limiting hop count on the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. IEEE Communications Letters, 19(4), 569–572.
  

• Batmaz, A. U., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2014). Role of unidirectionality and reverse path length on wireless sensor network lifetime. IEEE Sensors Journal, 14(11), 3971–3982.
  

Editorial

• Haytaoglu, E., Arslan, S. S., Dagdeviren, O., Yildiz, H. U., & Ozturk, Y. (2025). Editorial brief for special issue: Mass connectivity and/or communication paradigms for the internet of things. Internet of Things, 32, 101625.
  

Conference Papers (International)

• Tantur Karagul, C. T., Akgun, M. B., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2025, November). Non-uniform k-connectivity for energy-efficient and reliable underwater wireless sensor networks. In 2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.

• Un, B. E., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2021, May). Impact of critical node failures on lifetime of UWSNs with incomplete secure connectivity. In 2021 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
  

• Ozmen, A., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2020, November). Impact of minimizing the eavesdropping risks on lifetime of underwater acoustic sensor networks. In 2020 28th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2019, November). Utilization of multi-sink architectures for lifetime maximization in underwater sensor networks. In 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference (MENACOMM).
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2019, October). Prolonging the lifetime of underwater sensor networks under sinkhole attacks. In 14th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet ‘19) (pp. 1–5). ACM.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Gungor, V. C., & Tavli, B. (2018, June). A hybrid energy harvesting framework for energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks based smart grid applications. In 2018 17th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
  

• Dagdeviren, O., Akram, V. K., Tavli, B., Yildiz, H. U., & Atilgan, C. (2016, October). Distributed detection of critical nodes in wireless sensor networks using connected dominating set. In 2016 IEEE SENSORS (pp. 1–3). IEEE.
  

• Tantur, C., Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., & Tavli, B. (2016, October). Optimal transmission power level sets for lifetime maximization in wireless sensor networks. In 2016 IEEE SENSORS (pp. 1–3). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2015, December). Prolonging wireless sensor network lifetime by optimal utilization of compressive sensing. In 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2014, December). The impact of random power assignment in handshaking on wireless sensor network lifetime. In 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) (pp. 201–206). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Kurt, S., & Tavli, B. (2014, October). The impact of near-ground path loss modeling on wireless sensor network lifetime. In 2014 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) (pp. 1114–1119). IEEE.
  

• Akbas, A., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2014, May). Data packet length optimization for wireless sensor network lifetime maximization. In 2014 10th International Conference on Communications (COMM) (pp. 1–6). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Bicakci, K., & Tavli, B. (2014, January). Communication/computation trade-offs in wireless sensor networks: Comparing network-level and node-level strategies. In 2014 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet) (pp. 49–51). IEEE.
  

Conference Papers (National - in Turkish)

• Yildiz, H. U. (2019, April). Improvement of underwater acoustic sensor networks performance with fountain codes. In 2019 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2018, November). Minimum delay and maximum lifetime trade-off in underwater sensor networks. In 2018 National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (ELECO) (pp. 80–83). EMO.
  

• Karakurt, Y., Yildiz, H. U., & Tavli, B. (2018, May). The impact of mitigation of eavesdropping on wireless sensor networks lifetime. In 2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U. (2018, May). The impact of data fragmentation on network lifetime in underwater acoustic sensor networks. In 2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.
  

• Yildiz, H. U., Tavli, B., & Kahjogh, B. O. (2017, May). Assessment of wireless sensor network lifetime reduction due to elimination of critical node sets. In 2017 25th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1–4). IEEE.